“Hot Fuzz” from 2007 is the second of three genre-based films from the team of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Following their zombie romantic comedy “Shaun of the Dead” and preceding their ode to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and growing into adulthood in the form of “The World’s End,” here we have their paean to the absurdity that is American action filmmaking, and it is a pretty glorious thing to behold.

Very specifically citing “Point Break” and “Bad Boys II,” “Hot Fuzz” is the story of a hot shot cop in London who keeps upstaging his coworkers, so he finds himself being transferred to a sleepy little village out in the middle of nowhere, designed to get him out of the way and let him waste away somewhere in which the biggest crime is teenage loitering. But since he IS a super cop, Nicholas Angel (Pegg) uncovers a conspiracy within this town and sets to right the wrongs done illicitly right under everyone’s noses.

This movie has the signature hyperactive presentation that Wright has become known for, along with a proper story about a couple of guys learning to get along with each other that provides a nice emotional underpinning for all the violent shenanigans that happen around them. “Hot Fuzz” is an absolutely wonderful and fun movie and one which action film fans should be able to appreciate for many reasons.Continue Reading …