Good comedy, great cop movie.

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2011)

Hot Fuzz might not be as great as Edgar Wright's previous movie with Smon Pegg and Nick Frost but it still manages to be at the same time one of the best comedies of 2007 and one of the best cop movies of 2007. Pegg and Frost are good as always and as in all Wright movies the editing is so smooth and lightning fast that it manages to make paperwork look like the coolest damn thing you've ever seen. Hot Fuzz plays with the tropes and clichés of cop movies in a amusing way while at the same time functioning as a perfectly passable cop movie in it's own right that you could enjoy without knowing much about the genre. However having some knowledge of the many movies the film references adds a lot of enjoyment to it. Most of the humor however comes not from referencing other movies but from the absurdities of setting a hard edged cop thriller in a small quiet English village.