Hot Fuzz
Part 2 of the New Years Eve movie night.
Sgt. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a good cop. Too good. Much too good. So good that he’s showing everyone else up and they decide to reassign him to the “safest town in Britain” where he is immediately bored to tears. Like Shaun of the Dead, this is in large part an homage to action films and buddy films. Angel is paired with PC Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), son of the Chief Inspector and off they go to clean up a town that doesn’t need cleaning.
Or does it? For a town with a remarkably low crime rate, it has a startlingly high accident rate.
I loved this movie, although not quite as much as Shaun of the Dead. Some of the camera work is the same and is getting old. Many of the Shaun stars come back for at least a cameo. But the real standout in the film is Timothy Dalton whose sleazy, slimy, smarmy grocery store owner was absolutely perfect.
