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Hot Fuzz

Universal acclaim
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Comedy | Crime | Foreign
Written by:
Simon Pegg
Edgar Wright
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 20, 2007
DVD: July 31, 2007
Running Time: 121 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for violent content including some graphic images, and language
Starring Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Robert Popper, Joe Cornish, Chris Waitt, Eric Mason, and Billie Whitelaw
In this action-packed comedy from the makers of "Shaun of the Dead," Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is the finest police officer London has to offer, with an arrest record 400% higher than any other officer on the force. He's so good, he makes everyone else look bad. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so embarrassing -- the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. A small village is about to get some big city justice. (Rogue Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The good humor bubbles up from a deep reservoir of affection for Hollywood schlock.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
The best, surely the smartest, English-language movie of the year to date.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
It's not hard to imagine these characters in a straight-faced Hollywood blockbuster. And that's the source of Hot Fuzz's genius, pointing out the thin line that separates convention from farce when Hollywood starts throwing its special effects around.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Everything an action-comedy should be. It achieves through parody what most films in the genre can't accomplish straight.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
In addition to the marvelous lead cast, all sorts of funny performers show up in cameo roles, including Steve Coogan, Bill Nighy, and Timothy Dalton.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
For most of its running time, it's an enjoyably unpretentious celebration of the guilty pleasure we can take from a stupid-as-all-get-out car chase or from watching things blow up real good. Then, in its final half hour, Wright and Pegg ratchet up the absurdity tenfold and enter the realm of the sublime.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Wright and Pegg are storytellers who weave their naughty bits into genuine characters and a plot. It's a ridiculous plot, but one that's absolutely in the spirit of the films they're satirizing.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Summer hasn't arrived, but the funniest riff on a summer movie genre has already landed.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Pegg and Wright are armed with an endlessly impressive arsenal of attention grabbers, from witty editing tricks to a wry soundtrack and a joke-packed script that demands multiple viewings.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
If you see Hot Fuzz, you'll never again watch a Michael Bay film without howling with disrespectful laughter.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
In the very funny cop comedy Hot Fuzz, overachieving London police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) commits a very British sin: He's too good.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Hot Fuzz is something all too rare in movie comedies: a story rather than a string of disjointed skits, with hearty characters behind its caricatures.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's smashing fun, nonetheless, made with razor wit and continual invention and far, far fresher than not only Hollywood buddy-cop movies but also Hollywood's own spoofs of them.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
At once deeply affectionate and sharply observed: There's never anything smart-alecky about Wright's approach as a director.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
Really, do we need another dumb action movie to remind us how dumb action movies are?...Yes. We absolutely do.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
The whole enterprise goes far beyond pastiche, wreathing its characters in a film-intoxicated world.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
A sustained genre parody that's equally funny but (maybe in deference to the genre) much more pumped up.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
A British variation on Hollywood nonsense, and as such it's a little gloomier, a little coarser, and a lot more cerebral--oh, and funnier than all the "Reno 911!" boxed sets combined.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Felix Vasquez, Jr.
The thrill of Hot Fuzz is the chemistry between Nicholas and local oaf Danny Butterman, who is an action film aficionado and finds Nicholas' stories utterly engrossing.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Since Mr. Wright and Mr. Pegg are essentially parodying self-parodies, they have also smartly kinked up their conceit by setting most of the film in a sleepy village that might as well be called Ye Old English Towne, thereby wedding one of the most irritating British exports to one of the most absurd American ones. Think of it as "The Full Monty" blown to smithereens.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The most originally funny movie to hit U.S. screens in a while.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
A little too long and suffers from a sagging midsection when the level of exposition becomes laborious, but the spectacularly entertaining final 30 minutes compensates for a lot of flaws.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The best of it is a riot--a "Bad Boys II" fireball hurled with exquisite accuracy at a quaint English town peopled by Agatha Christie archetypes.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
It's bloody carnage - or it's ketchup, or bolognese sauce, at the very least.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
It's to the "Lethal Weapon" movies what left-hand driving on a country lane is to a freeway chase: pokey, more than a little daft, but with a bloody surprise around every hedge.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Plays like two films in one, and succeeds on both levels.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
With Hot Fuzz, you'll just have to settle for semi-hilarity.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
A real actioner, generous with the bullets and blood and chase scenes, that simultaneously mocks shoot-'em-ups.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Hot Fuzz deploys the same mix of genre conventions, slapstick and old-school British humor that made "Shaun of the Dead" such a dumb-but-good romp.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Hot Fuzz is fun, and it's nice to see all the English character actors who aren't busy in Harry Potter films, but it lacks its predecessor's freshness.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Basically a one-joke movie, and they take their sweet time -- too much of it, actually -- getting to the good stuff. But what excellent laughs they provide in the end.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Though it's no "Monty Python," Hot Fuzz is a clever, over-the-top marriage of mayhem and merriment.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
All the action is staged with energy, but it gets relentless without anything really funny going on.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 197 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jamie C. gave it a10:
This movie is cleverly written with great comedy and a unique plotline. Like no other movie out there. I've watched it several times and it gets better and better...
max j gave it a10:
Very funny and full of silly and fun action and an impressive storyline makes me want to watch it over and over again.
Tim B gave it a10:
Hot Fuzz will ruin the buddy-cop genre for you, and you'll love it for it. While it's not an amazing action film or an outstanding comedy of its own right, the way it blends the two into both an homage and a satire is brilliant. Its characters, plot, setting, and style (especially its use of absurdly fast cuts, a la The Bourne series) all say "Isn't this awesome?" and "Isn't this stupid?" at once, and it's right about both.
Jake H. gave it a10:
Awesome Movie!!! So funny and violent!
Alex G. gave it a7:
I don't know why everyone thinks it's so great when it drags on and the humor is to be expected, sure i quite liked it but when films like Scary Movie and Superhero Movie are getting quite bad reviews and this is getting universal acclaim it's quite irritating.
Craig A gave it a10:
Not as good as Shaun, but near perfection anyway.
Mutt D. gave it a10:
Incredible action comedy which manages to both lavish, lampoon, and love the genre while also managing to distinguish itself from it's counterparts.
