Angel, who meets local officer (and son of the Police Chief) Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) soon becomes involved in relatively trivial police matters, such as locating a missing swan, and confiscating a cache of weapons (including an unexploded naval mine) from a local farmer. Sandford, the pristine frontrunner in the country’s “Village of The Year” competition (having won the title numerous times), is a seemingly sleepy little rural community. So, his bosses conspire to rid themselves of him, and send him to small town England to while away the time. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a cop with an impressive track record: so impressive is he that he’s making his fellow officers look bad. Hot Fuzz manages to not only be an effective homage of other films, but a great film on its own merits. After the success of equally brilliant horror-film homage Shaun of The Dead, the trio of British film-makers returned to a specific genre and knocked it out of the park with this effort. Hysterically funny, gob-smackingly action-packed (especially in its final reel) and directed with a keen eye for action-film parody, this film is a shining light amongst the dullard, dreary genre flicks released onto the mainstream every year. Hot Fuzz, the second major feature directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, blasts onto the screen with a rapid-fire one-two punch that never lets up. Here’s hoping that one day, we’ll all get to do so. Have you ever fired one gun while flying through the air? Have you ever fired two guns while flying through the air? But Sandford isn’t an ordinary town, and a series of grisly deaths (“accidents” as the local constabulary calls them) prick Angel’s interest, and he soon finds that there’s a lot more to the town and its inhabitants than meets the eye. Synopsis: When super cop Nicholas Angel is reassigned from his city division to a small town out in the country, he’s initially unimpressed. Principal Cast : Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Billie Whitelaw, Bill Bailey, David Bradley, Olivia Colman, Ron Cook, Kenneth Cranham, Peter Wight, Julia Deakin, Kevin Eldon, Karl Johnson, Lucy Punch, Anne Reid, Rafe Spall, Rory McCann, Bill Nighy, Paul Freeman, Edward Woodward, Martin Freeman, Stuart Wilson.
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