Simon Pegg, plays Nicholas Angel, a top London police officer who’s leapt to a small town by his inferior superiors (Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan and Martin Freeman) for being just too damn good at his job (although they would hate to admit they were in fact jealous of his action packed London police life). Banished to the sticks, where a missing crystal white swan originally proves the only menacing distraction, he finds himself desperate for action. He kicks out some teenagers from the local pub. He soon finds there is nothing much to do until he realizes there is a murder mystery happening in the small town, the humorous part of it all is that nobody believes him as they all think he is seeking the sweet action packed police life he left behind. A teensy bit of plot tucked among some charming nonsense. “Hot Fuzz” kicks out the expected verbal and visual allusions to modern Hollywood action movies great and forgettable, hitting the highs (“Point Break”) right along with the lows (“Bad Boys II”).

Wright’s touch is stylish and assured, but many bad editing choices have been made which sees nearly every scene edited with fast cuts which are funny the first couple of times, but which by the tenth and eleventh time we see them they are somewhat boring especially as the target audience are teenage/young adult males and let’s face it, they get bored very easily. There are also a series of false endings which have the audience on the edge of their seats multiple times, so basically the whole film in one big cliff-hanger.

In general I enjoyed this film but found it quite hard to follow what had happened since there were a large variety of face paced editing, after all the movie is made for 13-25 year old males and I am a 15 year old female.