Bonum Communae Communitates

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2007)

"Hot Fuzz" is a wonderful film about people who take their matters very seriously in a world that doesn't, about them being imprisoned by their own goals and about the great liberation that comes with the opportunity to make their cause public and publicly fight for it in their own way.
As such an uplifting film and besides that very funny. The self reference here is ruthlessly choreographed, there's not one word of dialogue, not one name, that wouldn't be there for a reason, that wouldn't relate to another part of the film. And the actors do a superb job letting the characters become real life persons, no matter how weird they are, they are so intensely portrayed that they grow familiar inevitably, so that, all together, it is almost a theater play of great inner texture, from whose arbitrary inadequacies its humour is derived.
This is a wonderful film, I already said so, a present day "Arsenic and Old Lace". Congratulations!