Hot Fuzz.
Starts as a character study.
Develops as a murder mystery.
Continues as a tight parody of most film genres you care to think of. (Oddly, no romance though.)
Ends in the most wonderfully absurd slam-bang shoot-out and action fest you have seen since Blues Brothers. I'm not kidding, it gets bigger and bigger, both the action and the comedy. It's amazing. Warmly recommended.
... Actually, there sort of is a romance, between the two main, male characters. Completely platonic, though. But it seems the film makers were not blind to it, for in a couple of outtakes, the two actors mock-made-out after scenes.
They actually put in as many movie cliches as they could, even using Roger Eberts book about them for inspiration.
It seems the film is a who-is-who of great British actors. I didn't know any of them, sorry to say. I didn't even recognize Timothy Dalton, who has a major role.
As a fan of Taggert, Sweeney, Life On Mars (UK Version), and having grown up with Miami Vice, The Professionals, The Bill and Z Cars this sounds like the film for me.
ReplyDeleteI just hope that it lives up to UK comedic greats like "The Bullshitters" and "Gino-Full Story and Pics"