Very different, very entertaining British dark comedy.

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2007)

Simon Pegg is perfect as Nicholas Angel, highly trained and perhaps over-achieving London Police Officer. He has wanted to be an officer ever since he can remember, and his only fault seems to be making his fellow officers look bad. So he gets promoted and transferred to the sleepy country town, Sandford. He doesn't want to leave London, but has no choice.
In Sandford he finds a town that annually gets "best town" awards, and a police chief that never gets too excited by a little law-breaking, like underage drinking or his son, a fellow officer, driving while drunk. But as Angel arrives, townspeople suddenly begin to die, in apparent accidents. Everyone but he thinks they are just unfortunate accidents.
The most of the movie is Angel trying to track down the reasons for the deaths, all of which seem connected in some way. When he thinks he has finally figured it out, he finds that he is dead wrong.
A good, entertaining, different British dark comedy.
MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW: It turns out that Angel was correct, the deaths were indeed murders, but not for the reason he suspected -- real estate deals and greed. It turns out that all the town's officials, chief, vicar, etc were in a secret clique, and wear black hooded cloaks, and simply got rid of people they deemed not good for Sandford's image by killing them and making it look like an accident. Or simply dumping them to die in the church catacombs. Eventually London wants him back, but he stays in Sandford, a hero.