Hot Fuzz

Earlier this week a friend and I paid a ridiculous amount of money (try £11.75 each!) to see Hot Fuzz at a West End cinema.

The film stars Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced fame and is about a London policeman who is transferred to a small rural village because he is so super-good at his job he is making the rest of his colleagues in the MET look bad.

What results is a kind of weird mix of comedy-horror. It's a bit like Midsomer Murders on acid, or a cross between Miss Marple and The Omen.

I had half expected that the funniest bits had been crammed into the promo, so I didn't really expect it to be a particularly humorous film. Wrong! I laughed a lot. And so did the rest of the audience judging by the guffaws emanating from the seats around us.

I also jumped a couple of times, because there were a few unexpectedly scary scenes. There were also some genuinely horrific hide-your-eyes-behind-your-hands-
because-you-really-don't-want-to-see-this ones involving lots of blood and bodily mutilation too.

My only quibble is that the shoot-out stuff towards the end in which Simon Pegg's character reinvents himself as Arnold Schwarzengger from The Terminator dragged on for too long. But, on the whole, Hot Fuzz was an entertaining, laugh-out loud film that turned my rather dull, nondescript Wednesday into a rather exciting one -- even if I had to hand over a small fortune to experience it.

Comments

[Melody]

Geez...that's an expensive movie experience!! But the movie sounds great, we love Midsomer Murders around here so we might have to look into this movie.

[Zinnia Cyclamen]

I loved it too. And it was cheaper here because (a) I don't live in London and (b) my friends and I went on a Monday night which is cut-price ticket night.