Hot Fuzz (Widescreen Edition)

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Starring: Jim Broadbent
Rated: R (Restricted)
Type: DVD
Directed By: Edgar Wright
Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2007-07-31
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/27/2009 Run time: 121 minutes Rating: R

3 1/2 Stars
I hate giving this movie such a low rating since I am such a fan of S. of the Dead and of Simon Pegg himself. The worst thing about the movie is that it drags too often. I can stand a few slow spots, but it occurs frequently in the movie. What saves the movie from being a complete bore are the few scenes that are absolutely hilarious! When it's funny, it's really funny. Nick Frost, once again, does a great job at playing the bumbling side kick who has an obsession with Action movies (particularly Point Break). Simon plays his character dead serious, as the character is ment to be played, but it makes the character not interesting. Overall, an average movie. It just leaves me wishing it was better than it was.

bad
i have tried to play this and it wont work...can someone get back to me about this....not a happy customer!!!

Starts out with four stars, but then. . .
I am like so many other reviewers who liked Shaun of the Dead, but was vastly underwhelmed by this. Started off OK and I laughed quite a few times in the first half. But then it just kept going.

My expectations dropped when I thought, well, it looks like we're near the end and my wife informed me there was at least another hour to go. An hour? She fell asleep (I envy her) and I still struggled on. I kept checking the satellite time. With 20 minutes left and nothing new happening (long stretches of running and shooting, mild wounding, and the same ain't-this-cute joke over and over) I could stand it no longer.

Hot Fuzz gets most of its pacing from crackerjack editing and multitudinous camera set-ups, but editing can only go so far.

Really disappointed in this one. Really disappointed.

Hot Fuzz
For people who enjoy the Englis type of humor. Was a little hard to get
into the beginning of it. But I think well worth it.

Good movie? It's a fair cop...
Hot Fuzz After Shaun of the Dead, the writer/director/actor trio of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost came up with this new comedy that does for cop movies what Shaun did for zombie flicks. As before Wright directs a script written by himself and Pegg, and Pegg and Frost star. Pegg plays Nick Angel, a London cop so dedicated and efficient he starts to skew the statistics away from his less motivated colleagues. He soon finds himself transferred to Sandford, a tiny little rural village on the books with the lowest crime rate in England. Angel is understandably miffed by this, especially when partnered with the local police chief's son (Frost), who's a likable lunkhead. Shortly after his arrival, though, gruesome deaths start occurring. Angel is sure it's murder, but everyone else in town thinks the deaths are accidental. Angel becomes determined to solve the crimes no matter how many toes he must step on. This very funny movie manages to walk a very fine line: it spoofs American action movies hilariously but never stops being British. It does, however, come by its R rating very honestly, with rampant profanity and some very gory murders. The violence is as over the top as it was in Shaun of the Dead, but with that same matter of fact/deadpan tone that pushes it past icky into icky-but-funny. (kind of like the gore in a Monty Python movie) And what a cast the boys have in support this time: Timothy Dalton (2 time 007), Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man-1973), a couple of unidentifiable but hilarious celebrity cameos, and briefly, Martin Freeman (The Office-British version). If you enjoy English humor or thought Shaun of the Dead was fun, definitely check this one out.