SuhailiHot Fuzz
March 17th 2008 12:00
Starring - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Timothy Dalton.
Hot Fuzz is the next movie from the Shaun of the Dead team and does to the Action genre what Shaun of the Dead did for the Horror genre. More specifically, it completely sends up almost every convention that the Action genre has but also manages to tell a compelling story at the same time.
Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is the best officer in the London Police Department - he holds the speed record for the police fitness course, his arrest-rate is four-hundred percent higher than the rest of the department combined and he is the undefeated champion in numerous outside work activities (Judo, chess and fencing among them). He was so good that his superiors (Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy) have to get rid of him because he's making the rest of the department look bad.
Angel gets shipped off to idyllic Sandford, statistically the safest village in England where there hasn't been a recorded murder in over twenty years. He gets partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost) who is Angel's antithesis - fat, bumbling and naïve.
After a spate of suspiciously gruesome 'accidental deaths, Angel suspects homicide and teams up with Butterman to find out what's really happening in quiet little Sandford..
Amazing acting from Simon Pegg and the rest of the cast; highlights were Timothy Dalton' sneering clichéd chief suspect and Nick Frost's naïve police constable. Numerous cameos through out the film make it well worth repeat viewing - Peter Jackson as a homicidal Santa and Cate Blanchett as Angel's masked ex-girlfriend among others.
A worthy 'sequel' to Shaun of the Dead and destined to become a classic, Hot Fuzz is a must see for anyone who likes their laughs 'fast and furious' with a story that won't 'die hard' and a film you'll still be talking about during 'rush hour'.
5 our of 5 stars
Hot Fuzz is the next movie from the Shaun of the Dead team and does to the Action genre what Shaun of the Dead did for the Horror genre. More specifically, it completely sends up almost every convention that the Action genre has but also manages to tell a compelling story at the same time.
Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is the best officer in the London Police Department - he holds the speed record for the police fitness course, his arrest-rate is four-hundred percent higher than the rest of the department combined and he is the undefeated champion in numerous outside work activities (Judo, chess and fencing among them). He was so good that his superiors (Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy) have to get rid of him because he's making the rest of the department look bad.
Angel gets shipped off to idyllic Sandford, statistically the safest village in England where there hasn't been a recorded murder in over twenty years. He gets partnered with Danny Butterman (Frost) who is Angel's antithesis - fat, bumbling and naïve.
After a spate of suspiciously gruesome 'accidental deaths, Angel suspects homicide and teams up with Butterman to find out what's really happening in quiet little Sandford..
Amazing acting from Simon Pegg and the rest of the cast; highlights were Timothy Dalton' sneering clichéd chief suspect and Nick Frost's naïve police constable. Numerous cameos through out the film make it well worth repeat viewing - Peter Jackson as a homicidal Santa and Cate Blanchett as Angel's masked ex-girlfriend among others.
A worthy 'sequel' to Shaun of the Dead and destined to become a classic, Hot Fuzz is a must see for anyone who likes their laughs 'fast and furious' with a story that won't 'die hard' and a film you'll still be talking about during 'rush hour'.
5 our of 5 stars
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