Storyline
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.
Directors
Cast
Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Peter Jackson, Joe Cornish, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Lucy Punch, Steve Coogan, Timothy Dalton, Rafe Spall, Bill Nighy, Cate Blanchett, Paddy Considine, Kenneth Cranham, Rory McCann, Stephen Merchant, Kevin Eldon, David Bradley, Tim Barlow, Peter Wight, Paul Freeman, Karl Johnson, Bill Bailey, Edward Woodward, Billie Whitelaw, Eric Mason, Stuart Wilson, Maria Charles, Julia Deakin, Trevor Nichols, Elizabeth Elvin, Patricia Franklin, Lorraine Hilton, Anne Reid, Ben McKay, Adam Buxton, David Threlfall, Ron Cook, Alice Lowe, Martin Freeman, Garth Jennings, Robert Popper, Chris Waitt, Colin Michael Carmichael
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Reviews
90
L.A. Weekly
For most of its running time, it's an enjoyably unpretentious celebration of the guilty pleasure we can take from a stupid-as-all-get-out car chase or from watching things blow up real good. Then, in its final half hour, Wright and Pegg ratchet up the absurdity tenfold and enter the realm of the sublime.
83
Entertainment Weekly
In the very funny cop comedy Hot Fuzz, overachieving London police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) commits a very British sin: He's too good.
80
The thrill of Hot Fuzz is the chemistry between Nicholas and local oaf Danny Butterman, who is an action film aficionado and finds Nicholas' stories utterly engrossing.
80
Variety
A sustained genre parody that's equally funny but (maybe in deference to the genre) much more pumped up.
80
Village Voice
A British variation on Hollywood nonsense, and as such it's a little gloomier, a little coarser, and a lot more cerebral--oh, and funnier than all the "Reno 911!" boxed sets combined.
