Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British police action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They worked together previously on the 2004 motion picture Shaun of the Dead (the first film in the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy), and the television series Spaced. It was directed by Edgar Wright and produced by Nira Park. Wright revealed that he wanted to write and direct a cop film because "there isn't really any tradition of cop films in the UK... We felt that every other country in the world had its own tradition of great cop action films and we had none."
The film debuted on February 14, 2007 in the UK and 20 April in the USA.
Hot
Fuzz received multiple positive reviews, earning a 90% approval rating on Rotten
Tomatoes and 81/100 from Metacritic. The total international box office gross
reached $78,761,971 before its DVD premiere. Shortly after the film's release,
two different soundtracks were released in the UK and US.
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Plot Summary
Nicholas Angel, an extremely dedicated and over achieving
police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service, performs his duties so
well that he makes everyone else look bad. As a result his superiors send him
to a place where his talents won't be quite so embarrassing: the sleepy and seemingly
crime-free village of Sandford in rural Gloucestershire.
Once there, he is partnered with well-meaning but overeager and naïve police constable Danny Butterman, the son of local police inspector Frank Butterman. A committed action film fan, Danny is in awe of his new big city partner, who just might provide him with his chance to experience the life of gunfights and car chases he longs for. Angel, meanwhile, struggles to adjust to the quiet and uneventful pace of the village, and despite clearing up several otherwise unnoticed crimes and misdemeanours in short order, soon finds his most pressing concern being a swan that has escaped from its owner. The other major crime seen, is a shoplifting incident at the supermarket (prior to the chase of the shop lifter, while Danny is browsing through the DVDs, a copy of Shaun of the Dead, also starring Pegg and Frost, can be seen). Angel and Danny eventually bond over action films and drinks at the local pub.
Soon after Angel's arrival, a series of grisly murders disguised as accidents
rock the village, all committed by an individual in a black hood and cloak. Increasingly
convinced that Sandford is not what it seems and that the victims of the 'accidents'
were murdered, Angel begins to clash with the other officers on the force. However,
Angel refuses to drop the investigation and initially suspects Simon Skinner,
the charming but sinister manager of the local Somerfield supermarket, of murdering
the victims due to their involvement in a lucrative property deal. His confrontation
with Skinner only reveals Skinner's apparent innocence and further damages Angel's
credibility with his colleagues.
After being ambushed in his hotel room by the cloaked murderer, who is unmasked as the trolley boy of the Somerfield supermarket acting under the instruction of Skinner, Angel is led to a nearby castle where he discovers the truth; Inspector Butterman, Skinner and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA), intent on keeping Sandford's title of "Village of the Year", have been murdering anyone who might damage the village's image. Inspector Butterman reveals that his wife committed suicide after the village lost the title many years ago, motivating him to use extreme methods to ensure Sandford wins the yearly contest. Angel discovers the bodies of various "problem" people whom the NWA disposed of, before being cornered and "stabbed" by Danny, apparently a member of the NWA.
Having tricked the NWA into believing that Angel is dead, Danny instead drives him to the village limits and releases him, insisting that he knew nothing about their true activities. Danny urges Angel to flee, reasoning that no one would believe the truth about Sandford. However, whilst at a motorway service station, Angel sees the films that he and Danny bonded over on a nearby sales rack and is inspired to stop the NWA. He drives back to town and arms himself with weapons confiscated earlier in the film. After Angel meets with Danny in the village, the two begin to dispatch the members of the NWA in an increasingly destructive and frantic series of gun fights.
Initially confronted by their colleagues in the Sandford Police Service (who are quickly persuaded of the truth), Angel and Danny take the battle to the supermarket. Skinner and Inspector Butterman flee, and are pursued by Angel and Danny to a nearby model village. There both Skinner and Inspector Butterman are apprehended.
Although Angel's previous supervisors arrive from London begging Angel to return, as their crime rate has risen drastically, Angel elects to remain in Sandford. Back at the police station, the Sandford Police celebrate their triumph, but they are ambushed by the last remaining member of the NWA. He attempts to shoot Angel but Danny jumps in front of the gun and takes the bullets himself. In the resulting chaos a confiscated naval mine is triggered and the station is destroyed.
One year later, Angel lays flowers on a grave marked 'Butterman'; it is revealed that Danny has survived, and that the grave is his mother's. Angel has been promoted to Inspector and Danny to Sergeant, and the film ends as they go back on the beat together in Sandford.
Cast
Sandford Police Service
Simon Pegg as Sergeant Nicholas Angel
Nick Frost
as PC Danny Butterman
Jim Broadbent as Inspector Frank Butterman
Paddy
Considine as DS Andy Wainwright
Rafe Spall as DC Andy Cartwright
Kevin
Eldon as Sergeant Tony Fisher
Olivia Colman as PC Doris Thatcher
Karl
Johnson as PC Bob Walker
Bill Bailey as Sergeants Turner
Neighbourhood
Watch Alliance
Timothy Dalton as Simon Skinner
Edward Woodward as Tom Weaver
Billie Whitelaw as Joyce Cooper
Eric Mason as Bernard Cooper
Stuart
Wilson as Dr Robin Hatcher
Paul Freeman as Rev Philip Shooter
Kenneth
Cranham as James Reaper
Anne Reid as Leslie Tiller
Peter Wight as Roy
Porter
Julia Deakin as Mary Porter
Patricia Franklin as Annette Roper
Lorraine Hilton as Amanda Paver
Tim Barlow as Mr Treacher
Trevor Nichols
as Greg Prosser
Elizabeth Elvin as Sheree Prosser
London Metropolitan
Police
Bill Nighy as Chief Inspector
Martin Freeman as Sergeant
Steve
Coogan as Police Inspector (uncredited)
Cate Blanchett as Janine (uncredited)
London residents
Peter Jackson as Father Christmas
(uncredited)
Joe Cornish as Bob
Chris Waitt as Dave
Sandford residents
Stephen
Merchant as Peter Ian Staker
Rory McCann as Michael Armstrong
Alice Lowe
as Tina
David Bradley as Arthur Webley
Ben McKay as Peter Cocker (uncredited)
Adam Buxton as Tim Messenger
David Threlfall as Martin Blower
Lucy
Punch as Eve Draper
Ron Cook as George Merchant
Edgar Wright as Shelf
Stacker (uncredited)
Joseph McManners as Gabriel
Cameos
British singer
and actor Joseph McManners played a cameo role as a tearaway schoolboy, however
his background story and an entire sub-plot surrounding his character were cut
from the final version and can only be found within the DVD bonus features. Stephen
Merchant also makes two appearances as Mr Peter I Staker, who reports the escaped
swan, and in a brief appearance at the end of the film, reunited with the swan
when Angel is offered his job back in London. Director Edgar Wright revealed in
an interview that Cate Blanchett was given her cameo role as a result of her being
a fan of Shaun of the Dead. Jim Broadbent similarly revealed his interest for
Shaun and requested a role while meeting with Simon Pegg at a BAFTA awards ceremony.
Wright met with director Peter Jackson while he was filming King Kong, and Jackson
suggested that he would be willing to do a cameo in the film. Edgar had Jackson
wear a fake beard and pads to portray Father Christmas who stabs Nicholas Angel
in the film's opening montage.
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