Post by Capo on Apr 26, 2008 0:24:27 GMT
Hot Fuzz
Edgar Wright 2007 | UK / France
A brilliant London cop is transferred to the countryside, and, with his witless new partner, stumbles upon suspiciously accidental deaths.
A constantly jesting mock-up of all things cops-and-robbers, at once a throwback to and subversion of genre motifs, a well-acted and edited comedy mystery thriller; Wright (and Pegg) have developed immensely since Shaun of the Dead. Its most effective moments are when the editing compliments the one-liners - whip pans and zooms between characters whose repoitee is forever-cleverer than plausible. It boasts a wealth of British acting talent, but Timothy Dalton, mustached as a self-conscious has-been (the guy who stood in as Bond between Moore and Brosnan), truly relishes being in every scene he's in, and subsequently steals the film.
Edgar Wright 2007 | UK / France
A brilliant London cop is transferred to the countryside, and, with his witless new partner, stumbles upon suspiciously accidental deaths.
A constantly jesting mock-up of all things cops-and-robbers, at once a throwback to and subversion of genre motifs, a well-acted and edited comedy mystery thriller; Wright (and Pegg) have developed immensely since Shaun of the Dead. Its most effective moments are when the editing compliments the one-liners - whip pans and zooms between characters whose repoitee is forever-cleverer than plausible. It boasts a wealth of British acting talent, but Timothy Dalton, mustached as a self-conscious has-been (the guy who stood in as Bond between Moore and Brosnan), truly relishes being in every scene he's in, and subsequently steals the film.