Hot Fuzz, movie review

April 30th, 2007 | Movies

Last night College Girl, her friend, and I went to see Hot Fuzz. It’s gotten very good reviews.

It started off slow, then picked up steam, and never stopped gaining steam as it raced to a power house ending.

It was so slow and cerebral in the beginning, while simultaneously covering a lot of ground, that I wondered where it was heading.

Never fear, it begins to move so fast, you are caught up in the main character’s frustrations, fears and head space in trying to figure out the increasing death count. It had many twists and turns.

The basic premise is a parody of police movies. The main character, Angel, is shipped out of London because he is so good at what he does that he makes the other officers look bad. He ends up being shipped to a perfect, little sleepy town, a la Stepford. Underneath that calm is evil ‘for the greater good.’

Figuring out whodunit…and watching the body count increase, including a scene where he realizes how big the death count really is…while trying to maintain his own sense of self (knowing, as we do, that his predecessor is now mentally ill — ya think he might have figured some of it out too?)

The relationship that develops between the main character and one of the other policemen, his partner, is very well done.

The blood and gore is both bloody and in some cases funny. Heads literally roll, but those heads while resembling the characers who have been beheaded look more like manniquin heads.

We liked the movie. Might even buy it. Her friend (male) loved it. He says it’s the same cast all over again that did the parody of zombies (”Shaun Of The Dead”.)

It is also interesting to see a film where no one is beautiful. They are all odd, crooked teeth, just odd. Well, maybe we could leave Timothy Dalton out of that. And the blonde…who has a distracting laugh, which makes her odd — and a target.

Angel pretty much cleans out the whole town, while never killing anyone, which I thought was brilliant in itself. He packs some pretty mean guns, in a parody of every Die Hard or Clint Eastwood movie.

And Cate Blanchette, in an uncredited part, plays the part of Angel’s ex-girlfriend, in a scene where she is completely covered in forensic protective gear.

Karin

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