A Very Amusing Police Drama with distinctive British humour

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2013)

This is probably one of my favourite of the Edgar Wright films, though I must admit that most of his films (at least those that I have seen) are typically British in taste. Mind you to suggest that you do not like a particular Edgar Wright film can be blasphemy to some people, but to those people I simply suggest that they get a life. Shaun of the Dead was, well, okay, but this one was quite amusing, despite the story itself being a little unoriginal.
Basically a police officer, Nicholas Angel, is really good at what he does, in fact he is so good that he puts the rest of the Metropolitan Police to shame so they decide that it is probably best for their reputation if they find him a nice post out in the country where he can basically stay out of trouble. Mind you, within ten minutes of arriving in the small English country town, he has pretty much cleared everybody out of the pub because, as it turns out, they are underage.
The thing about this film is that there are a number of accidental deaths, and Angel comes to suspect that there is some sort of conspiracy afoot, so he sees it as his duty to get to the bottom of it. However, while there is indeed a conspiracy afoot, it turns out that it is nothing like he actually expected it to be.
Like a lot of comedies, I tend to find that the jokes generally only last for a short time, and usually when you have seen the joke, it just does not seem to be all that funny any more. I guess that is why one should watch films like this sparingly, unless of course you are watching it with a group of people, Mind you, when you are watching a film with a group of people, the laughter that is generated can actually be quite contagious.
As for this film, it is a pretty good film, with a lot of unexpected twists in it. Okay, also because it is set in England, it did create a bit of a pinning for me to go back there which, to be honest with you, is one of my favourite places in the world.