Great film but spare us the bloody scenes

Rating: 8/10 (6 March 2007)

Simon Pegg plays a London cop who is dispatched to a Gloucestershire village because his great talent and high arrest record puts his fellow officers to shame. He immediately clashes with the residents of this 'sleepy' village who take exception to his style, meddling and eagerness to prove that the growing body count is the job of a serial killer and not just an accident. Pegg is both charismatic and fun to watch as the tense cop who takes his work very seriously, unlike his dim side kick played by Edgar Wright, who is also one of the funniest characters in the film. This is an enjoyable story, particularly the last 40 minutes or so when the tide turns against the village cult and the real gunfight action kicks in. The only thing I didn't like about this film was the gory & bloody scenes that came with each murder. Seeing someone's head being crashed like a watermelon by falling church masonry is not in the least bit amusing to me. I am normally against film censorship but in this case I would happily opt for a 'cleaned up' DVD version.