Bad Boys In Blue

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2007)

If you've seen the trailer for the latest offering from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright you shouldn't require a detailed description of Hot Fuzz's plot.
If not, then I guess it can be summed up as this: The best Police Officer in London (Simon Pegg) is transferred to a sleepy English village partnered with a local action movie obsessed cop (Nick Frost) who are both thrown into a murder mystery and then all hell breaks loose.
I'm a HUGE fan of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and the other various works of Wright, Pegg and Frost which meant that I've been looking forward to seeing this film for a very, very long time.
My expectations for this little flick were quite possibly too high. I had to ask myself if it was possible to have a film as laugh out loud funny as Shaun within 2 years.
Thankfully I wasn't in the least bit disappointed.
Hot Fuzz is a fantastic action comedy movie with an outstanding cast from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost right down to the old lady who gets kicked in the face. Timothy Dalton is worth a mention for his spot on performance as a devious supermarket manager.
Yes it's true that the trailer has given away some good jokes and set pieces but within the fast paced 2 hour running time I lost count of the various one liners, visual gags and physical pratfalls.
The direction is slick and frantic with editing that even Tony Scott would find fast.
I loved this film, it is at the very least an equal to the mighty Shaun of the Dead and best it's the greatest British action movie in the last 10 years (that doesn't feature Bond, James Bond).
I guarantee you won't be disappointed (*) See this film where it belongs on the BIG Screen.
And if you're reading this when the film is out on DVD just make sure it's on the largest screen possible and you've got all your friends round too.
(* = Not a guarantee)