Mini-Review: Hot Fuzz
London’s best cop makes the rest of the bunch look bad, so they ship him off to a sleepy village, which suddenly develops a crime wave. Tough-guy cop has to work with/against local bumbling cops to bring down the bad guys.
I loved Shaun of the Dead (and own it!), and that was enough to get me into the theatre for this.
I saw this the week of the school shooting at Virginia Tech, and the movie has quite a lot of gun violence. I imagine it would have been disturbing, if I hadn’t been able to interpret it as a sort of meta-criticism of the gun culture on display in the vast majority of cop movies, or the States in general.
Liz and I still get chuckles out of some lines from this movie (“Yeearrrp”).
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Parmeter Jun 5, 2007
When you see it again, notice that no one actually dies from being shot.
All of the deaths happens off camera or through violence that has nothing to do with guns.
Joshua Jun 5, 2007
Excellent point! I had suspected something like that, while watching it.
Parmeter Jun 5, 2007
The giveaway for me was the battle in the town square towards the end. Point blank range and people only getting winged. I don't *know* for certain that it was meant to be satire/toung-in-cheek, but that's the way I took it.