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1. ›Hot Fuzz [2007]@sirdelly841d

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   Hello friends, I'm here with another interesting movie title Hot Fuzz and I would like to share you with here.

   The movie is about police officer Nicholas Angel is known to be the best across London. His seniors, who are jealous of his achievements, transfer him to a remote village where he encounters various challenges.

   It begins when high-achieving Metropolitan Police Service constable Nicholas Angel is promoted to Sergeant, but his resentful superiors reassign him to the small, rural town of Sandford.

   Gloucestershire, a regular “Village of the Year” winner, and his girlfriend Janine breaks up with him due to his workaholic attitude.

   Soon frustrated by the mendacity of the village, his colleagues in the Sandford Constabulary and the Neighborhood Watch Alliance (NWA)'s prioritization of low crime statistics over law enforcement.

   Angel unknowingly arrests a constable for drunk driving on his first night. He is later revealed as his partner PC Danny Butterman, a fan of buddy cop films and the son of Inspector Frank Butterman, Angel's superior.

   Angel is the only person who suspects foul play after a cloaked axe-wielding figure murders Martin Blower and Eve Draper.

   The two lead actors of an am-dram production of Romeo and Juliet whom he and Danny had earlier pulled over for speeding, and stages their deaths as a car crash.

   Sent to resolve a small dispute, he and Danny discover an illegal weapons stash and confiscate it, including an old sea mine.

   Angel warms to Danny, and together they binge-watch action films at Danny's dwelling.

   That night, a cloaked figure attacks George Merchant, a wealthy land developer, in his home and kills him in a deliberate gas explosion.

   Angel suspects that the killings are connected to a recent property deal.

   Tim Messenger, a local journalist, approaches Angel at a village fête, claiming to have information.

   However, a cloaked figure dislodges masonry atop the church's tower, which falls and kills the Messenger.

   Whilst buying Danny a last-minute birthday gift, Angel learns from Leslie Tiller, the village florist, about her plans to sell her land to Merchant's business partners.

   While Angel retrieves his notebook, a cloaked figure fatally stabs Tiller with her garden shears.

   Angel pursues the killer, but to no avail. Angel suspects Simon Skinner, a supermarket manager, as the property deal would have built a rival supermarket, but Skinner has an alibi.

   After surmising that there may be multiple killers, Angel is attacked in his hotel room by Michael “Lurch” Armstrong, an employee of Skinner's, but incapacitates him and learns about a secret NWA meeting at Sandford Castle.

   Once he arrives, the NWA, led by Frank, reveal to him that they committed the murders and staged them as accidents, as each victim threatened Sandford's chances of winning “Village of the Year”.

   Irene, Frank's late wife and Danny's mother, put everything into helping Sandford win the first-ever competition, but travelers ruined their chances the night before the adjudicators arrived, driving her to suicide.

   Frank has since vowed to help Sandford win the Village of the Year award every year, whatever the cost.

   Angel flees, but stumbles into the castle's catacombs, discovering the corpses of the NWA's other victims.

   Danny suddenly appears and feigns murdering Angel, and pretending to dispose of him, unsuccessfully urges him to return to London for his safety.

   After arming himself with the confiscated guns, he and Danny engage in a shootout with the NWA.

   When Frank orders the other officers to arrest them, the pair successfully convince them of Frank's complicity.

   Frank flees and the officers besiege the supermarket, with Skinner escaping in a police car with Frank.

   After he and Danny engage the offenders in a high-speed chase and shootout, Angel corners Skinner at Sandford's model village, and after a fight, Skinner's jaw is impaled on a miniature church steeple.

   Frank attempts to escape in Angel's car, but a swan that the pair had recaptured earlier attacks him.

   Angel's former superiors arrive and ask him to return to London as the crime rate has risen considerably in his absence, but Angel declines, electing to remain in Sandford.

   While the officers are reviewing the paperwork of the arrests, the elderly Tom Weaver, the last NWA member, enters the station wielding a blunderbuss. He shoots at Angel, but Danny takes the bullet.

   Find out what happened next as he shoots at Angel, but Danny takes the bullet as it gets interesting.

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2. ›'Hot Fuzz' by Edgar Wright Review: A small village, but big crimes@namiks1354d

   

   Yesterday I wrote a review on Edgar Wright's first full feature film Shaun of the Dead, detailing the aspects of culture and personal growth that were found within his comedic zombie flick that takes place within the more residential areas of London, England. With the film being such a success, it came to no surprise that Edgar Wright and many of his already well establish cast joined forces yet again under a sequel to what would be known as the 'Cornetto Trilogy'. For those who don't know: a Cornetto is just a pretty normal ice-cream that can be purchased in the UK; I assume being well enjoyed by Edgar Wright and his friends over the years enough to reference it frequently. This Cornetto trilogy of films pertaining to three particular colour themes: red for blood. Blue for police. And green for aliens. By no mere coincidence also referring to three individual flavours of the Cornetto ice-cream available for purchase in the United Kingdom.

   Hot Fuzz, the second film, and blue for both police and the original chocolate and vanilla ice-cream Cornetto, with Shaun of the Dead of course referring to the Strawberry flavour, explores the chaotic life of a police officer with big numbers hailing from the city of London -- later pronounced as Lun-don by numerous characters -- as his higher-ups scheme a plan to send him far away into the countryside village of Sanford so that. Avoiding his future chaotic ways of tough crime fighting and thus the endless paperwork and drama that comes with it. Our protagonist takes his job very seriously, too seriously.

   While this viewing of Hot Fuzz was by far not the first, much like Shaun of the Dead, I did discover newfound appreciation for the film watching with (somewhat more) mature eyes.

   Hot Fuzz

   

   The least of locations to serve as a nightmarish, crime-ridden would be the countryside, a small town in which its majority population are going into their later years. Older individuals with small independent businesses, retired, perhaps even very much integrated into the local community. The odd sum of youth floating around but relatively harmless at a glance as one would expect of teenagers that grow up surrounded by empty fields and little to do; something I could certainly relate to in my years growing up in a village. Where the biggest even to be heard around the village was whatever boomer level gossip surrounding their very simplistic and quiet lives, or for the younger people mostly just whatever fun new location that could be turned into a swing ahead a stream, or a den made from sticks in what little wooded areas there were to be found. In regards to crime, what could there possibly be?

   This is what Hot Fuzz asks as it places its protagonist into the village life far away from the chaos of a capital city. At first having to adjust to the cultural differences of village life, quieter, slower, certainly heavier on the drinking aspect as the adults flock to the local pub seemingly every night for a round of beers to unwind from the also very much relaxed day of work. Wright continues on with his directing techniques made famous as he displays fast sequences of regular actions in rapid succession to display the passing of time; contributing to both character context as we observe their actions and lives as well as serving as the connection of one scene to another. In Hot Fuzz, Wright uses these moments to display the mundane nature of a police officer's work in which the majority of time spent is on paperwork and regular detective work. Though done in a comedic manner that makes his job seem more like the action-packed Bad Boys films the characters often reference throughout the film's runtime.

   Unlike Shaun of the Dead, however, is a longer runtime, larger budget, and evidently more theatrical appeal as a result. Where Shaun of the Dead feels more independent, smaller budget, Hot Fuzz is its grown-up brother with a little more construction to it. Much of its runtime contributing to a buildup of its seemingly unexpected series of events that come to a rapid conclusion that in fact does hold more references and connection to the pop culture influences Wright and his cast have looked up to long before their professional careers took off. With a theme around police work and crime comes village life comedy and crime, treated like a series of major incidents: a swan missing, petty theft, and more all while slowly introducing a series of strange deaths that appear to be accidents surrounding the village. I won't post about the narrative too much in this regard as to avoid spoilers given this is a very easy film to spoil, but I will say that it doesn't hold much weight in the grand scheme of things. Its narrative seems ignored and somewhat rushed towards the end in efforts to tie things up having spent an hour and more to joke around and poke fun at the silliness of its concept.

   This is a film in which its main plot isn't that important, and the main fun comes from seeing its cast come together and just have fun. In this instance we see the strange accents of farmers in the United Kingdom which makes the location feel as if it is a totally different world to that of London, which most definitely is true. Though exaggerated a bit more for cinematic reasons. The comedy does have its moments, it will make you laugh a little, but as mentioned the narrative itself isn't all that interesting. Most likely due to this runtime given as a result of Wright being given more freedom in terms of budget but less freedom in regards to studios wanting something that pertained more to the modern blockbuster with more runtime and justification for that budget. Though with this runtime does come the interesting idea of displaying the disconnect between London and the rest of the United Kingdom, which holds some weight to it more on recent times as for many decades people have pointed out the boom of London economically with the decline of all other locations. Wright using the countryside as a location not so different to the city life is an interesting look that portrays countryside locations for what they really are: relaxed, slow, and ultimately victim to the same issues as people promote community for survival.

   Culture and community

   

   Hot Fuzz is a film that looks into the idea of community and the lengths ones will go to in efforts to protect it. Showing the importance community is for many; it looks at how justice is often dished out by a central authority and not necessarily following the will of the people. Ultimately who should choose what is and what is not allowed, even when the majority may disagree with it? Hot Fuzz addresses the idea of culture too, as we see the disconnect evident within the country between outsiders from the city and those who are more local in these areas. It's a very real reaction that people have, as outsiders may sometimes venture into these locations and bring alongside their city attitude; I have seen it myself, and seen the snob-like ways in which local individuals may react to it. We see the differences between two types of people despite them living within the same country; though their economic differences and ways of life very much on either side of the political spectrum.

   These more countryside locations are often overlooked in the film industry within the United Kingdom. One may think of this country and imagine posh, well-spoken accents, classy individuals that live in the big beautiful city of London, most definitely aware of the most recent fashion trends, and living in a spacious and very much comfortable townhouse within the city. At a glance someone thinks of England and imagines London. Sherlock and the cobblestone streets. Big Ben and the royalty that reigns seemingly in the supposed same luxury as the citizens. Hot Fuzz shows the reality of the majority: small-town life, simple lifestyles, and a people that definitely deserve a bit more recognition.

   Wright does an excellent job at shining light on small-town living. With his usual batch of talent each adding their own elements of greatness to the story. We watch Hot Fuzz for this mostly, and the rest serves as icing.

   

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3. ›Hot Fuzz (2007) Movie Review - Might Just Be The Only Good Cop Movie (And It's Really Funny!)@cyberdemon5311435d

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4. ›Movie Review: Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz@drunksamurai1896d

   I like different movies and especially stories with cool plot twists in the vein of M. Night Shyamalan or David Fincher's Fight Club. So that the story is turned upside down and literally makes you "rethink" all the events of the movie that happened before. But alas, such films are not very suitable for multiple viewing and knowing how it all ends, it's not so interesting to watch them anymore. But there are pleasant exceptions and I watched the film Hot Fuzz by the British director Edgar Wright at least ten times and I consider it a real diamond in the genre of comedy action films.

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   The story revolves around tough cop Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), who because of his extreme efficiency (which makes his colleagues look like real losers) gets assigned to the police station of the tiny town of Sandford, a regular "Village of the Year" winner.

   After a bustling London - life in this quiet and peaceful place, where even a shoplifting cookie becomes an event, Angel and his partner - a charming country boy Danny (Nick Frost), spend their boring evenings watching classic action movies.

   Suddenly a series of strange accidents begin and the pair have a lot of Real Police work to do to uncover this conspiracy. Only first they have to catch a swan who has escaped from one of the townspeople....

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   The trio of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost became known for the series Spaced, which was hugely popular with viewers and in fact proved to be the best comedy show of 1999 in the United Kingdom. Two years later, Edgar Wright, a talented director and screenwriter with Pegg and Frost, directed the comedy horror Shaun of the Dead, in which he brilliantly parodied most of the clichés of zombie movies and, as it turns out, they have great screenplays with Pegg.

   Encouraged by the success of Shaun, the filmmakers continued to work together and, feeling that Britain was woefully short of its own cop films, embarked on their next project, which, in fact, was Hot Fuzz.

   During 18 months of work (!!!) on the script Pegg and Wright watched 138 cop movies, conducted more than half a hundred interviews with policemen (the characters The Swan Escape and The Old Interpreter were based on the real life events) and the result exceeded all expectations.

   Witty humor, sometimes turning into something reminiscent of Monty Python sketches, hundreds of references to both classic action films and new ones, a great pace of narration, but above all the "Chekhov guns" hanging here and there. As the Russian classic Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said, "If there's a gun hanging on the wall at the beginning of the play, it should go off by the end of the play," and there's more than enough of that in this film. Someone's last name, a photo in the newspaper, a fleetingly heard phrase, or a popular one among the townspeople becomes part of a big puzzle that is put together just before the big final battle. In fact, I consider the shootout in the final act to be one of the best scenes in cinema this century, with Simon Pegg riding into town on a horse and Nick Frost firing into the air screaming "A-A-A-A!" - is just fantastic.

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   And yes, "Hot Fuzz" is so layered that you watch it more than once, constantly discovering new funny hints, quotes and allusions that are impossible to catch at the first viewing and I think that even in ten times I didn't catch everything. Like Peter Jackson, the director of "The Lord of the Rings", who played the short role of "Santa the Bandit" in that film...

   If by some miracle you missed this movie, make up for it immediately. A true masterpiece of British cinema.

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5. ›Hot Fuzz (Película): los superpolicías de la risa@cristiancaicedo2131d

   

   Una película de 2007

   Como lo habrán notado revisando mi perfil y mis publicaciones, la mayoría de las películas que reseño son serias y esto se debe a dos cosas. La primera de ellas es que mi género favorito es el drama y la segunda es que no me gustan las comedias muy exageradas al estilo de la mayoría de las películas de Ben Stiller (me gustó mucho The secret life of Walter Mitty) y Adam Sandler. Zoolander me divirtió en su momento y Click me pareció agradable, pero cosas como Jack & Jill no son lo mío No tengo nada en contra de ellos o de las personas que disfrutan cintas como Dude, where's my car?, pero sencillamente no las disfruto y por eso no las veo.

   

   Póster Oficial

   Sin embargo, de vez en cuando me topo con alguna película que, haciendo buen uso de lo absurdo y lo ridículo, consigue arrancarme carcajadas. Tal fue el caso de Hot Fuzz, comedia británica estrenada en 2007, dirigida y coescrita por Edgar Wright. La película cuenta la historia de Nicholas Angel, un oficial de la policía de Londres que es excesivamente eficiente: graduado con honores, el primero de cada clase y con una tasa de arrestos cuatro veces superior a sus colegas. Es tan pero tan eficiente que es mal visto por sus compañeros porque como su superior le dice, "nos haces quedar mal". Entonces, Angel es transferido a Sandford, un pequeño pueblo en Gloucestershire que es lo opuesto a Londres: apacibles paisajes campestres. Los primeros días, debido a la inercia de su carácter y su personalidad, Nicholas se ve inmerso en casos como el arresto de un borracho que encuentra orinando en la calle, o de menores bebiendo cerveza en un pub, en fin nada que ver con las persecuciones a gran velocidad y los arrestos en la capital inglesa. Le cuesta entender que la ley no siempre se aplica con la misma rigidez.

   Toda la primera parte nos divierte con el descubrimiento de la personalidad de Nick y su ética incorruptible, frente al comportamiento normal de los habitantes de ese puebito, galardonado como el más tranquilo de todos. En Sandford le asignan como compañero del policía Danny Butterman, hijo del inspector Frank Butterman, quien es un fanático de las películas de acción tipo Bad Boys y espera que junto al policía metropolitano pueda vivir aventuras como las que ve en la tv, aunque durante algunas semanas lo más emocionante que hacen es perseguir un ganso desaparecido.

   

   El ganso

   Y entonces, de pronto, una serie de "accidentes" inexplicables comienzan a llamar la atención de Nick que no duda en olerse que hay un asesino en el pueblo perpetrando horrendos crímenes y que detrás de todo, Sandford no es tan tranquilo como parece y la villa se transforma en un campo de batalla, revelando su verdadera naturaleza y la de sus habitantes que no son las mansas palomas que pensábamos. Comienza entonces un thriller absurdo con elementos gore en donde el mayor atractivo, como en toda la película, es la tenacidad con la que Nicholas Angel busca hacer cumplir la ley. Es tan recto y tan obediente en su deber como el Pantaleón Pantoja de la novela de Mario Vargas Llosa que llevaba a cabo cualquier misión, por absurda que fuese.

   

   Póster para España

   Las secuencias de cámara le imprimen velocidad a la cinta y se combinan con un guión muy gracioso, al estilo de algunas películas de Guy Ritchie (de hecho, al comenzar a verla, pensé que era de él) con un humor muy británico, pero también explosiones, tiroteos, persecuciones en auto, crímenes salvajes, secuencias de acción al estilo de Los indestructubles y ecos de las películas que ve Danny, pero también, a través del humor, se presenta la crítica social, a las instituciones y a lo que el mundo define como el bien y el mal. Es una película de unos 7/10 puntos, con entretenimiento de punta a punta que además de ser una aventura es un desfile de carcajadas por lo insólitas que resultan ciertas situaciones, siempre descansando sobre el personaje de Nick, principal atractivo de la trama. Para quienes puedan disfrutar de la plataforma, se encuentra dsponible en Amazon Prime Video y me parece una buena opción para esas ocasiones en las que se quiere ver una cinta divertida, entretenida y que nos haga reír, sin pensar mucho.

   Reseñado por @cristiancaicedo

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6. ›'Hot Fuzz' by Edgar Wright Review: Learning to enjoy life@namiks2608d

   

   Following the style of 'Shaun of the Dead', the next film in Edgar Wright's comedic trilogy is 'Hot Fuzz'. A film that appeals more to Brits than anyone else, due to its dull, seemingly crimeless setting of the slow countryside.

   With that spin, the film immediately pulls in your attention. It's safe to say most expect a film about police offers to take place in a crime-filled state or city, and the fact that we get the complete opposite is a clear indication of the simplicity behind Edgar Wright's approach to the comedic genre.

   This is your typical buddy cop comedy film, for sure, but as with 'Shaun of the Dead', Hot Fuzz is a film filmed with meaning that can easily be overlooked amidst the quick jokes, nonsensical characters, and glorified death scenes.

   With the London Police being fed up of Nicholas Angel's (Simon Pegg) passion for the job -- making endless arrests and taking everything so seriously -- he's transferred to a new assignment, which just so happens to be in a tiny British village called Sanford.

   Edgar Wright uses his well-known transitions to inject comedy and the passing of time into establishing a new scene or a new setting, and in the case of Hot Fuzz, it's used to display the most mundane of actions and events: filling out paperwork, or the long travel from city life to countryside that seems almost otherworldly.

   Taking his seriousness for the job all the way to Sanford, Nicholas is welcomed with many rule-bending citizens and quickly gets to work on issuing the fair punishment for their crimes, but things are very different in Sanford, which he soon learns from the other police officers that seem to not care too much. Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), one of such police officers that loves his job and longs for a bit more action, becomes friends with Nicholas fairly quickly.

   Ripe with meaning, Danny is essentially everything Nicholas should be: he's outgoing, caring, fun, but also takes his job seriously. This is what Nicholas has been failing to do for years as he lives and breathes work with very little time being made to relax and just enjoy little things. We see Nicholas slightly changing throughout the film, loosening up a bit, but still remaining relatively stiff about doing so. Danny introduces him into a world where, as well as in the village, life is slower and meant to be enjoyed at a slower pace. Village life is quiet, perhaps not as peaceful as previously thought, but certainly the complete opposite to what Nicholas has experienced all his life.

   Where Simon Pegg's character was being pulled down by Nick Frost's character in 'Shaun of the Dead', the roles are reversed with Nick Frost's being the very thing that Nicholas needs to see the importance of enjoying life and not just living to work, whether what you do is what you love or not.

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7. ›Hot Fuzz (2007) movie review@mmaruf3025d

   A very unique comedy action movie is Hot Fuzz (2007) . The screenplay and plot is very unique and abnormal though it worked with me.

   Story & Screenplay-

   A police officer who is the protagonist of the story is a fine officer. He gives more than 100 percent in his line of duty. H has more achievements than any other in his department. Because of him, other officers are looking less qualified and hard-working. That is why he has been transferred in the country side. There life is very easy ans simple . Everyone knows each other there. Police-offices do not have much to do. Even, some cases are settled without any official work with conversation. But, the protagonist does not like that. He thinks everything should be according to order. Suddenly lots of murders starts happening. But all people thinks that those are accidents but deep sown protagonist knows that those are murders. Now, he is determined to solve the mystery of murders.

   The whole screenplay has lot of subtle comic moments. Evert characters has a funny side. Everyone has something to do in the film and each of them has signature attitude in the film. The writing of the movie is very good. Every character was given enough depth in the story .

   Acting-

   Simon Pegg plays the character of Nicholas Angel who is the protagonist of the movie. He is just prefect for the story. He perfectly portraits a strong willed, disciplined police officer. Others played their part well. Everybody supported with the cause of the screenplay.

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