Hot Fuzz
I mistook this movie for another really stupid comedy I’d seen commercials for – this was not it and I can’t remember what that one was.
This is a British film (didn’t know that til I started watching) and you know that I’m not big on British humour, at least in TV shows, however, this one had its moments where I was amused. I don’t mind British comedy when it’s the subtle kind or the deadpan looks. I never saw Shaun of the Dead and apparently this film was made by whomever made that one.
What I thought was going to be really stupid comedy – which I like, when I’m in the mood for it, turned into a movie with twists all over the place and a serious plot running underneath it all.
Our hero (Simon Pegg playing Nicholas Angel) is an overzealous cop from London who’s being promoted to sleepy town as a sergeant. He doesn’t want to go there but his compatriots and superiors want him gone… his superior work is making them look bad.
On his first night in the new town, before he’s even started the job, our sergeant manages to make quite a few arrests, one of them on a drunk driver, who, as it turns out, is one of his police coworkers. Sergeant Angel must learn the rules of the town and the give and take of life in a small village rather than going by the book.
One of the townspeople struck me as familiar. Wait, wasn’t that a former James Bond character there? Yes, Timothy Dalton is one of the townsfolk. I guess James Bond was the most fame that this guy was ever going to have.
I missed a few parts of the movie as I was programming phone numbers into my daughter’s cellphone, but I don’t think they were imperative to the movie; as a matter of fact, I guess I found it running a bit slowly, so, by the time I was finished doing that, I had regained some interest in what was going on.
If you like the twists, if you are expecting a comedy but would like to find a little more to it than the usual, you’ll want to rent this movie – especially if you like British films.
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