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Hot Fuzz 2007

“Hot Fuzz” is not exactly a parody; I see it more like a full-fledged buddy cop action film with all its cliches set in an unusual context (the countryside village with mediocre lazy cops). The jokes and puns tend to be hit and miss, the running time could be one-third shorter, but overall it’s (again) a great achievement for action comedies. If only the writing of the dialogues could match the level of the sophisticated editing and creative visual direction. So much of the humor came by images and sound here. Wright always knows how to grab your attention and goes full throttle with his trademark techniques in this film (crash zooms, whip pans, jump cuts, sound and action syncs, etc.). The perfect pitch of the editing just shows how everything on camera had been carefully choreographed and rehearsed in detail to achieve a specific effect.
By the way, I loved how Simon Pegg always gets a “shortcut” in each film of the trilogy.

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