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Rating: 4/10 (21 December 2009)

After Sean of the Dead, there were many of us excited to hear that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost had done another feature with their brand of humor. I thought part of Sean's charm was it low-key simplicity. Here, we take a fine concept, a successful London cop assigned to a sleepy country town, and blow it into a full-on action movie. There are still lots of funny moments, and Bill Nighy is pure gold for the 2.398 minutes of screen time he gets. However, it ended up feeling very by-the-numbers by the end, with all the plot reveals, chase sequences, and tidy resolutions. He may as well have gone Hollywood--there are so many generic moments that they cancel out the original ideas. Why put in the effort and waste your talent on something that's been done so many times as the buddy cop format? Then again, I've heard some bad things about the Simon Pegg movie that came out after this one, so maybe he had already used up all his good ideas when he finished Sean.