Hot Fuzz
2007 · Directed by Edgar Wright
London supercop Pegg gets transferred to a sleepy English village where things start escalating. Buddy-cop, conspiracy, and a third-act gun battle staged like Bad Boys II by a man who watched too much Lethal Weapon.
Why It's Cult
Hot Fuzz is the action movie inside the parody of action movies, which is what makes it work. Wright spent six months watching nothing but cop films before writing it. The pub-fight transition. The swan. The Andys. The closing supermarket shootout is staged with the seriousness of Heat. Pegg straight-man to Frost's chaos. The reveal of the village conspiracy is the funniest thing the trilogy ever produced.
The Plot, Officially
Top London cop PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel until two actors are found decapitated. It is called an accident, but Angel won't accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone while they try to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents".
Starring
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman
Where to Watch
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