Homage filled action comedy

Rating: 8/10 (29 February 2016)

Hot Fuzz is humorous, dark, twisted and distinctly British. It's filled with action, references to other action flicks and the cynical Brit sense of humor the story is delivered with makes it universally lovable, that is if you appreciate that kind of thing.
Frost and Pegg seem to have their fingers on the pulse of the international audience without pandering to the most common denominators. While the characters portrayed by the cast are hardly groundbreaking in originality, *SPOILERS START HERE* lets be brutally honest about it for a second, the secretly satanic seemingly hospitable townsfolk conspiring to do a ton of evil sort of commands that *SPOILERS END HERE*, they more than make up for it with the little quirks, traits and innuendos that help mark Hot Fuzz as a British comedy flick. That and the lack of the obligatory romantic interest who was supposed to be captured and rescued so another checkbox could be ticked not to neglect some age demographic.
All in all a good watch if you're in the mood for a comedy and Adam Sandler or Ben Stiller doing their shtick in some random setting without an interesting or properly developed plot or side characters won't cut it for you this time around.
Sorry, had to get that out of my chest.