You've got a moustache........

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2013)

Sgt. Nicholas Angel is just about the perfect policeman officer, honest, reliable, and dedicated to public duty.
But he is making everyone else look bad, he finds himself transferred to the picturesque village of Sandford.
Once there, he not only finds that the police force is less than amicable, but that there is very little policing to do. The odd drunk and a few lads with a can of spray paint are about all there is to worry about.
He becomes partners with Danny Butterman, who just happens to be the station chief's son.
However, there is a spate of murders that leads him to believe there is a massive conspiracy to keep the village 'pure'.....
It was always going to be a hard task to keep up with something as brilliant as SOTD, but Wright manages it, almost.
Referencing almost every aspect of the action genre, with a twist of seventies Gothic horror, HF delivers laughs, thrills, and very surprisingly scare throughout its duration, and this is where the film falters slightly, its length.
The film is long, and although the first two acts are brilliant, and just fly by, the final third drags along almost too much, and the ending suffers from Return Of The King fatigue.
But this is only a minor gripe. The cast are excellent as usual, and Pegg and Frost have the greatest chemistry as expected. The references are really easy to spot if you are an eighties action fan, and this adds to the fun of the film.
From the trailer music to Lethal Weapon 2, to the Chinatown and Wickerman references, the film never fails to surprise.
Dalton almost steals the film from everyone else, he proves that he is more than the best Bond.
If it half an hour shorter, it would have been a perfect 10. But Woodward had to have the last laugh.
Brilliant in many ways, just too long.