Hot Fuzz (15)

Prepare for riotous weekend of tight editing and sharp comic timing as Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz bumps shoulders with his own Baby Driver.

It plays out like a Midsummer Murders on steroids as London super cop Sgt. Angel (Simon Pegg, who co-wrote) gets reassigned to the sleepy village of Sandford and teams with Sergeant Butterman (Nick Frost) to... apprehend a runaway swan!

Hot Fuzz is a treasure trove of movie homages and clichés: from The Stepford Wives to Point Break and beyond; it gets better with each (now big screen) viewing. The jokes are constructed with precision timing, and often the editing itself is the gag, like when they stop a speeding driver after only a few feet of chase, mundane on its own, but filmed with all the intensity of a Michael Bay movie.

It's this constant lampooning of other set pieces and styles that makes Hot Fuzz accessible to the casual viewer as pleasures film know-it-alls. A fraction of the cost of Baby Driver, and set in the middle of Somerset only makes it more impressive how well it holds up a decade on. (research Jack Whiting). This is observational film making at its wittiest. Edgar doesn’t miss a police ‘officer’ trick. Don’t miss.