Fuzzy at first

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2007)

Hot Fuzz starts out with laugh out loud joke one after another. By the time the main character has moved into the town, I've laughed at least a dozen times.
The story is about a cop, fuzz, johnny law, whatever you want to call him, whose been reassigned to a small town because he's making everyone "look bad" so they put him in the town with the least number of crimes in England.
Soon enough he realizes that all sorts of people are being killed, and while everyone in the town thinks it's all "accidental", this guy knows something is up. Slowly he unravels the murders and whose behind it, but still nobody will believe him. Step after step leads to a half an hour shootout where every bloody death you can imagine happens... at least twice. All of a sudden a movie that started out hilarious ends up being way too much gore.
While a lot of the deaths are hilarious, it gets old fast. Wright and Pegg are trying to make an homage, but instead it becomes just like the others: pointless violence. I would have liked to see just comic violence, no blood. THEN it would have been a 10/10.
Still, a good show