Yes yes, this IS what it's like in the English West Country!

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2016)

The Met's finest officer, PC Angel, is perfect. A brilliant track record, excellent arrest rates and a devotion to political correctness within the the Police Service. He is everything the Met could want, but that's the problem: he makes everyone else look lazy and inefficient, even his own superiors.
The solution: send him on a secondment to a sleeply little West Country village where nothing ever happens, and the biggest crime of the week is likely to be someone putting out the rubbish on the wrong day. But this village isn't all it seems to be. A gloriously over-acting Timothy Dalton is the local fat cat businessman with designs on an out of town shopping centre, his big fish in a small pond personna permeating all aspects of village life.
When objectors to the plans start to die in mysterious ways, and the local "detectives" are too disinterested to investigate obvious murders, PC Angel comes into his own with his mis-matched cop buddy (the son of the chief inspector and an avid viewer of American cop films).
Comedy, action, plenty of references to films like Point Break and a runnng theme of a delinquent escaped swan make for a joyous romp in the English countryside, the sleepy village of Wells in Somerset to be precise. I spent many Summer holiday's there as a kid; even then I though there was something odd about it :)
Popcorn cinema at its Saturday night best!