One of the Best Action Movie Spoofs I've Ever Seen

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2008)

"Hot Fuzz" is, simply put, one kick-ass movie.
I haven't yet seen "Shaun of the Dead" (though it's now going right to the top of my list), so I didn't know what to expect from this follow up movie from the same team, actor/writer Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright. I expected something much more jokey, more along the lines of a "Naked Gun" movie. I had no idea this was going to be so unpredictably crazy and so relentlessly clever.
Pegg plays a hard-core police officer married to his job who is assigned as sergeant to a wee, quaint English village that has absolutely no need for a police department. However, once there, he becomes convinced that a string of grisly deaths are not "accidents," as the townspeople are convinced they are, but rather brutal murders. He concocts a complicated theory about the who and why, but the truth turns out to be far simpler, yet much loonier. This twist gives the movie its biggest jolt of energy, and from the moment the real truth is revealed and Pegg turns vigilante cop, the film becomes one of the funniest action movie spoofs I've ever seen.
My favorite thing about the film is that Pegg's character, cynical and suspicious of this perfect little village, is proved right in being both cynical and suspicious.
"Hot Fuzz" caught me completely off guard and ended up being one of the best movies I saw in 2007.
Grade: A+