2007 - Rated R - 2 hr 1 min
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent
UNCREDITED appearances: Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan, Peter Jackson
Who doesn't love a good Simon Pegg movie now and again? In Hot Fuzz, he plays a straight-laced, do-good cop with an amazing record of arrests that put his colleagues to shame. He gets promoted, but only if he leaves the bustling city of London to work as a Sergeant in a tiny podunk British town. Of course, he never expects that the crime levels there will rival London's... or that he'll uncover a tangled web of disturbing conspiracies.
His partner (played by Nick Frost) gets to play the funny guy. A cop following his father's footsteps, or trying to at least, who's more interested in police movies than police work. The two make an unlikely pair, yet they manage to overcome their differences to work together.
I really like this one. I think the characters are entertaining, the plot line is just complicated enough to be interesting (but not too convoluted), and the cameos sprinkled throughout keep you paying attention. A fun one to watch again.
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