Hot Fuzz Review

Hot Fuzz stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who have an excellent amount of chemistry on screen, they are actually best friends off camera, which makes sense as there on screen chemistry is a perfect match, especially for comedy aspects of films, they have star'd as the main characters in lot's of films now such as The Worlds End, Shaun of the dead and Paul, however hot fuzz was the second time they shared screen time, in Shaun of the dead they display a very similar relationship in the film that seems to leak over to this movie just as well if not better as they seem to interact more in this film. The films cast is awesome casting not only Simon Pegg with Nick frost but also actors such as Martin Freeman, Timothy Dalton, Bill Nighy, Paddy Considine and Jim Broadbent, this is a list of great talented actors and they all play their parts really well in this film, Timothy Dalton does a really good job of displaying a menacing character yet appearing innocent as well at times. The thing that sets this film apart from most is the editing, a lot of comedies in today's age try and get pretty much all the comedy aspects from unimaginative dialogue, for example "Grown Ups" an American film starring Adam Sandler, the jokes are very silly and the actually writing is extremely poor, like Grown Ups and a lot of other comedies it lacks clever ways to create jokes and to make the audience laugh, which is what this film excels in, it uses very clever editing techniques, visual appearances and timing to make the audience laugh. The camera work in this film is fine, its nothing special its really the editing that makes the film special, the fight scene with big employee (yarp) the camera work is very shaky and cuts very quickly, personally I'm not keen on this technique but for some reason in this film it doesn't bother me. What I really think makes this film great is the twists and turns it takes in its mystery, it displays itself as a almost parody of mystery detective films, yet it still is a great one, whilst making fun of them, the reveal of the town group being the killer is great, and I think its excellent when Nick Frosts character stabs Simon Pegg and you think he has just killed him, but you then find out he stabbed the notebook, it added a great shock value really made your heartbreak and then mends it right away. I think its an extremely clever movie in general it hints to all the big action movie with Nick Frosts character referencing to films such as Point Break and Bad Boys 2, it then uses these movie tropes for its action scene at the end and it is priceless, they literally go full out big action film whilst again doing a parody of it. The ending I think again adds a another shock value it they all get blown up and then its revealed everyone's okay at the end, its a great way to end the film, keeping the audience on their toes.