SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen the movie yet, I’m sorry to say that this review will take away some mystery, from, uh, well, the mystery.
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Too good for his own good.
An expert in hand-to-hand combat, armed response, high speed pursuit, investigation, procedures and policies, with a good sense of justice to boot, Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the personification of a super cop.
In fact, he was so good he outperformed the entire London Metropolitan Police Service. Because his excellence makes everybody else look bad, Angel’s superiors decided to ship him to perennial Village of the Year, Sandford, where the crime rate is so low and the accident rate is so high.
There, Angel is set to join a bunch of apathetic police officers who refuse to take action on incidents occurring within the village due to its reputation. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), son of the local police chief, and together, they were able to do something about the petty crimes that go unnoticed in Sandford.
A series of deaths dismissed by his colleagues as accidents caught Angel’s attention. Due to certain irregularities with the evidences, and suspicious about the incredibly high accident rate, Angel investigates the so-called accidents believing there’s more to them than meets the eye.
As he digs deeper into the case, Angel learns that the village elders have been killing off people perceived as nuisances to the village and have been passing it off as accidents to preserve Sandford’s good rep. What ensues is a sequence of gun fights pitting Angel against the village’s shotgun-toting population.
For something tagged as an action comedy, Hot Fuzz didn’t really crack me up until it got to the part where Angel was kicking a lot of senior citizen asses. The film’s humor is probably a little too English for me, so I guess that’s why I perceived the movie to have a slow start. Still, it’s a fitting way to prepare the audience for the build-up towards the action-packed parts.
In the tradition of Shaun of the Dead, director Edgar Wright combines wit, black humor and all-out mayhem to entertain audiences while Pegg and Frost make their roles work for them as they play perfect hero and bumbling sidekick respectively. Throw in some timely punchlines, gore, explosions, chases and guns into the mix and you’re in for a good time.
For what seems to be a parody of buddy cop movies and whodunits, Hot Fuzz isn’t going to blow you away but it won’t disappoint either. At the very least, it crosses over genres, redefines them, and then crosses back. Watching it gives you the feeling that you’re getting whatever you’re supposed to get from a typical action-comedy with a little bit something added.
And did I mention the protagonist will be kicking a lot of old geezer hineys? That, you gotta see!
I can’t really recall if they’ve shown Hot Fuzz in Philippine theaters. My guess is no. But Jack has been showing Hot Fuzz though I'm not sure for how long. If ever you miss the chance to see it on cable TV, securing a copy of the movie isn’t a bad idea.
Verdict:
3 out of 5 popcorns
(Good)
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