Dir. Edgar Wright (2007)
Rated R Hot Fuzz is about police officer Nick Angel (Simon Pegg) as he moves from being a constable in London to a sergeant in a British countryside town called Sandford. He is finding the move particularly hard, as he misses all the action and crime in London compared to the slowness in Sandford, when the most recent job he had was finding a missing swan. He's also been assigned a jolly but slow partner, Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), who asks too many questions and doesn't know much about his job. Things change for Angel when a the two leads in the towns' local performance of Romeo and Juliet are found dead. The whole town thinks it is an accident, since there is zero crime in Sandford, but Angel suspects murder. After this murder, more follow, with dead bodies of known members of the town being found. With no one suspecting anything still and no one helping him, Angel is furious that he can't find the culprit of the murders. One night after coming home from the bar with Butterman, he is ambushed in his room by someone in a black cape and hood. Angel uncovers the hood to reveal Michael, one of the employees at the local grocery store who only replies with the word 'Yarp'. After knocking him unconscious, Angel hears his walkie talkie going off. It's Skinner, the owner of the grocery store, ordering him to go to the church once he was done dealing with Angel. When he goes to the church, he sees almost the entire town dressed in black hoods chanting in a circle. All along, the members of the town had been murdering people that didn't follow the towns' perfect moral guidelines. After escaping a wild chase, Angel comes up with a plan to defeat the villagers. On the day judges were supposed to come to consider Sandford for neighborhood awards, Angel and Butterman engage in a wild gun fight with the town. They emerge victorious, and Angel and the rest of the police service have a newly cemented friendship. He even turns down an offer to come back and work in London. Angel and Butterman become best friends and partners, and continue solving crimes in Sandford. This movie was hilarious and I'm not sure why I haven't watched it sooner. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are an iconic due, and I have admired their worked ever since I watched Paul years ago. It's not serious at all and it's pretty quick, so if you're bored and just want something amusing to watch, this would be a good one. I also feel like this would be a good movie to watch on a date for some reason. The only thing in this movie that I did not enjoy was the gore, but that is just a personal opinion. A lot of people aren't bothered by that stuff and might even think it's funny. But if you don't like blood/gore, maybe skip through the parts where a large spike falls on a guys' head and when a woman gets stabbed in the throat with garden shears. Other than that, this movie is funny and really enjoyable.
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