Hot Fuzz film review
After what seems like a life time since Shaun Of the Dead, the team have finally hit our big screen again with another laugh a minute, quite dark look into policing in a small country village. Simon Pegg plays PC Nicolas Angel, a London police officer with the greatest arrest rate in the London area, he is pushed off to the country by his superiors (great cameo appearances by Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan and Martin Freeman) as Angel arrest record is beginnig to belittle the rest of the police force.
Sanford
Angels new posting is a quiet little village called Sanford in Gloucestershire, nothing much happen there and the current police officers are quite happy with the situation. Angel is given a new partner in the form of Danny, who is played by Nick Frost. Danny is a slightly simple country lad who happens to be the son of the chief inspector, who is played by Broadbent. Angel feels that he is destined to spend the rest of his police days looking for missing swans and looking after church fetes.
All this changes when a couple are killed in a car crash and Angels supercop mind begins to work overtime and he is convinced there is something suspicious going on. The body count begins to rocket but still only Angel believes the "accidents" to be suspicious!
Overall
This is a wonderful film that is a certain must see for anyone who enjoyed Shaun of the Dead as much as I did. Its taken all my favourite parts of the SotD and made them ten times better and funnier. Pegg and Frost seemed to have pulled out all the stops and cashed in any favours they had left to ensure that the whenever a new character is on screen you instantly recognise them from other great comedy appearances. Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan, Martin Freeman are just a few of the great british actors that can be found on the credits to this film.
This film had me laughing out loud in the cinema, something I haven't done since SotD. Not only is this a cracking comedy but the end action scene is something of beauty as an action film all on its own
Pure brilliance, Pegg and the team seem to be able to do know wrong when it comes to feature films or sit-coms! Well worth the five quid it'll cost to see at the cinema!