2007 was one of the best years for films, and it often boils down to There Will Be Blood (which I already wrote about) or No Country For Old Men (coming soon). Hot Fuzz is my personal favorite film that year. Not as well written, directed or acted, but the most satisfying. A UK take on American action movies that works on its own terms with a solid plot and some great twists. It’s only slightly a parody of buddy cop comedies, mostly a suspense mystery. Also, a horror film that evolves into an all-out action blast.
Simon Pegg plays the toughest, smartest cop in England. Simon Pegg, a slight man with thinning hair. He doesn’t go for laughs based on how much he doesn’t look like a tough guy. You believe him as this cop, and he always finds a way within his humorless character to be very, very funny. Meanwhile, Nick Frost brings in all these little extras as the likable partner. The way he sprays deodorant in a diagonal line, the way he acts along with Keanu in Point Break. Frost also gets the big emotional speech and the greatest delivery of “Motherf—ker” ever spoken by a Brit.
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