Hot Fuzz (2007)

Hot Fuzz (2007)

8/10

Starring

Simon Pegg

Nick Frost

Directed by Edgar Wright

Nothing is greater than when a great script meets a great cast, and that’s exactly what Hot Fuzz brings to the table.

Hot Fuzz is the British buddy cop movie that everyone has seen and holds in high regard. The movie stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and pretty much everyone else in the British film industry.
Starting like a joke and ending like one, the movie is a never-ending thrill of explosions and gunfire. While everyone in the movie goes bonkers, only you and the lead seem to wonder how you’re managing to keep your cool without blowing up at everyone on screen.

From the people who brought you and starred in Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz is the second film in Wright and Pegg’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End (2013)).
Of the three, Hot Fuzz is the most financially successful.

The movie starts with the introduction of the greatest police officer Scotland Yard has ever had: Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg). He’s so good that the only person better than him is himself a year later.
He’s sent away to a remote village, far from city life and the limelight, for one major reason: he was making his superiors and fellow officers look bad.

The plan is to send him to a place where nothing happens, hoping to put a lid on this overachiever.
But in the new village, Angel gets to work even before his official start date. He arrests almost half the town for one crime or another.
Paired with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a naïve officer who’s never done real police work (nobody in the town has), the two stumble onto something big.
A series of deaths start occurring in the town, making Angel suspicious. Many of the deaths have loose ends and are inconclusive, but the police force writes them off as accidents.

Angel won’t stand for that and decides to investigate the murders himself. His investigations lead to a rollercoaster of a movie for us to enjoy.

If you haven’t seen Hot Fuzz over the years and haven’t bothered to seek it out, you’re missing out on one of the best British buddy cop films.
The acting in the movie is magnificent, the action is awesome, and the lines are so unique and clever that you’ll be amazed by how the writers came up with them.