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Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz
	British theatrical release poster
Directed by	Edgar Wright
Written by	Edgar Wright; Simon Pegg;
Produced by	Nira Park; Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner;
Starring	Simon Pegg; Nick Frost; Jim Broadbent;
Cinematography	Jess Hall
Edited by	Chris Dickens
Music by	David Arnold
Production; companies	StudioCanal; Working Title Films; Big Talk Productions;
Distributed by	Rogue Pictures (North America); Universal Pictures (International); StudioCanal (France);
Release dates	16 February 2007 (United Kingdom); 20 April 2007 (United States); 18 July 2007 (France);
Running time	121 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; France; United States;
Language	English
Budget	US$12–16 million
Box office	$80.7 million

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Hot Fuzz is a 2007 action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the film with Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, an elite London police officer, whose proficiency makes the rest of his team look bad, causing him to be re-assigned to a West Country village where a series of gruesome deaths take place. Nick Frost stars alongside him as Police Constable Danny Butterman, Angel's partner. Jim Broadbent co-stars.

Hot Fuzz is the second and most commercially successful film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, succeeding Shaun of the Dead and followed by The World's End. Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for the script.

Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset for eleven weeks and ten artists worked on VFX, which involved explosions, gory gunfire scenes and a flip book. Released on 16 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 20 April in the United States, Hot Fuzz received acclaim from critics and grossed US$80 million worldwide on a budget of $12–16 million. In 2020, Empire named it the 67th-greatest film of the 21st century.^[6]

Plot

Nicholas Angel, a recently promoted Metropolitan Police Sergeant, is reassigned to the rural town of Sandford, Gloucestershire, for being too exceptional. Angel arrests Danny Butterman for drunk driving, but later discovers that he is the son of Inspector Frank Butterman, and a police officer himself. Angel is frustrated by the village's mundanity, his and Frank’s incompetent colleagues, and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA)'s prioritisation of low crime statistics over law enforcement. Angel and Danny stop the two lead actors of a local production of Romeo and Juliet for speeding. A cloaked figure later murders the actors, and their deaths are staged as a car crash; only Angel suspects foul play.

Angel and Danny discover an illegal weapons stash, including an old sea mine, and confiscate it. Angel warms to Danny, and together they binge-watch action films at Danny's house. That night, a cloaked figure attacks George Merchant, a wealthy land developer, in his home, and kills him in a gas explosion. Angel suspects that the deaths are connected to a recent property deal.

Tim Messenger, a local journalist, approaches Angel at a village fête, claiming to have information. However, a cloaked figure kills Messenger by dislodging masonry from the church's tower. Angel learns from Leslie Tiller, the village florist, about her plans to sell her land to Merchant's business partners. While Angel is retrieving his notebook, a cloaked figure murders Tiller with her garden shears. Angel pursues the killer but to no avail. Angel suspects Simon Skinner, a supermarket manager, as the property deal would have built a rival supermarket, but Skinner has an alibi.

After surmising that there are multiple killers, Angel is attacked in his hotel room by Michael "Lurch" Armstrong, an employee of Skinner. He incapacitates him and learns about a secret NWA meeting at Sandford Castle. The NWA, led by Frank, reveals that they committed the murders and staged them as accidents because each victim threatened Sandford's chances of winning "Village of the Year." Irene, Frank's late wife and Danny's mother, put everything into helping Sandford win the first-ever competition, but travellers moved in and ruined their chances the night before the adjudicators arrived, driving her to suicide. Frank has since vowed to help Sandford win Village of the Year every year, whatever the cost. Angel flees, but stumbles into the castle's catacombs, discovering the corpses of the NWA's victims, some of whom Angel had helped arrest or question. Danny suddenly appears and feigns murdering Angel and, pretending to dispose of him, unsuccessfully urges him to return to London for his own safety. After arming himself with the confiscated guns, Angel and Danny engage in a shootout with the NWA. When Frank orders the other officers to arrest them, the pair successfully convinces them of Frank's complicity.

Frank flees, and the officers besiege the supermarket, with Skinner escaping in a police car with Frank. After Angel and Danny engage the offenders in a high-speed chase and shootout, Angel corners Skinner at Sandford's model village. After a fight, Skinner is impaled on a miniature church steeple. Frank attempts to escape in Angel's car, but a swan that the pair had recaptured earlier attacks him. Angel's former superiors ask him to return to London as the crime rate has risen heavily in his absence, but Angel declines and elects to remain in Sandford.

While the officers are reviewing the paperwork of the many arrests, Tom Weaver, the last NWA member, enters the station wielding a blunderbuss. He shoots at Angel, but Danny takes the hit. In the resulting struggle, Weaver accidentally activates the sea mine, killing himself and destroying the station. One year later, Angel has been promoted to Inspector and Danny, having survived, has been promoted to Sergeant. After visiting Irene's grave, the two drive to their next crime scene.

Cast

Simon Pegg as Nicholas Angel, a high-achieving police officer who is transferred from London to Sandford after being promoted
Nick Frost as Danny Butterman, a Sandford police officer who loves buddy cop films
Jim Broadbent as Police Inspector Frank Butterman, Danny's father
Paddy Considine as Detective Sergeant Andy Wainwright, Sandford Police
Timothy Dalton as Simon Skinner, the manager of the supermarket at Sandford
Bill Nighy as Police Chief Inspector Kenneth, from the Metropolitan Police in London
Billie Whitelaw as Joyce Cooper, who runs the hotel where Nicholas stays
Edward Woodward as Tom Weaver, a professor who represents the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance and looks over the town with a number of surveillance cameras
Bill Bailey as Sergeants Turner, both twin-brother desk sergeants at Sandford
David Bradley as Arthur Webley, a farmer at Sandford who has an impenetrable accent and a huge stockpile of weapons including a sea mine
Adam Buxton as Tim Messenger, journalist at the Sandford Citizen
Olivia Colman as PC Doris Thatcher, the sole female police officer in Sandford
Ron Cook as George Merchant, a land developer who has a large mansion at Sandford
Kenneth Cranham as James Reaper, a farmer at Sandford
Peter Wight as Roy Porter, Mary's husband, landlord of Sandford's pub, The Crown
Julia Deakin as Mary Porter, Roy's wife, landlady of Sandford's pub, The Crown
Kevin Eldon as Sergeant Tony Fisher, Sandford Police
Martin Freeman as Sergeant, from the Metropolitan Police in London
Paul Freeman as Rev. Philip Shooter, an Anglican cleric in Sandford
Karl Johnson as PC Bob Walker, the oldest officer in the Sandford police
Lucy Punch as Eve Draper, an amateur actress who works for the Sandford town council
Anne Reid as Leslie Tiller, a florist in Sandford
Rafe Spall as Detective Constable Andy Cartwright, Sandford Police
David Threlfall as Martin Blower, an actor and solicitor
Stuart Wilson as Robin Hatcher, the town's doctor
Rory McCann as Michael Armstrong/"Lurch", a huge, but dimwitted employee of Skinner's supermarket
Robert Popper as (Not) Janine, whom Nicholas mistakes for Janine
Joe Cornish as Bob
Chris Waitt as Dave
Eric Mason as Bernard Cooper, Joyce's husband, who co-runs the hotel
Lorraine Hilton as Amanda Paver, the headmistress of the local school
Patricia Franklin as Annette Roper, a shopkeeper
Stephen Merchant as Peter Ian Staker, a resident of Sandford who calls about the village swan going missing, and whom Nicholas initially believes to be a prank caller, due to his initials and surname being P. I. Staker (i.e. "piss-taker")
Tim Barlow as Mr. Treacher, an old man resident in Sandford
Ben McKay as Peter Cocker, a shoplifter in Sandford
Alice Lowe as Tina, an employee at Mr Skinner's supermarket
Maria Charles as Mrs. Reaper
Steve Coogan (uncredited) as Metropolitan Police Inspector^[7]
Cate Blanchett (uncredited) as Janine, Nicholas' ex-girlfriend and a Metropolitan Police forensics investigator^[8]
Bill Nighy (uncredited) as Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector^[9]
Peter Jackson (uncredited) as a demented man dressed as Father Christmas, who stabs Angel in the hand^[10]
Edgar Wright (uncredited) as a shelf stacker^[11]^[12]

Production

Development

Director Edgar Wright wanted to write and direct a cop film because "there isn't really any tradition of cop films in the UK... We felt that every other country in the world had its own tradition of great cop action films and we had none."^[13] Wright and Pegg spent eighteen months writing the script.^[14] The first draft took eight months to develop, and after watching 138 cop-related films for dialogue and plot ideas and conducting over fifty interviews with police officers for research, the script was completed after another nine months.^[14]^[15] The title was based on the various two-word titles of action films in the 1980s and 1990s.^[16] In one interview Wright declared that he "wanted to make a title that really had very little meaning... like Lethal Weapon and Point Break and Executive Decision." In the same interview, Pegg joked that many action films' titles "seem to be generated from two hats filled with adjectives and nouns and you just, 'Okay, that'll do.'"^[16] While writing the script, Wright, as well as Pegg, intended to include Frost as the partner for Pegg's character. Frost revealed that he would do the film only if he could name his character, and he chose "Danny Butterman".^[17]

Preparation and filming

A man in a purple jumpsuit is at the right of the image walking down a street. On the left is a man dressed as a police officer following him. At the far right is a man seated on the back of a golf cart filming them. Storefronts can be seen in the background. — Simon Pegg filming in Wells, Somerset.

During the latter half of 2005, Working Title Films approached several towns in South West England looking for an appropriate filming location. Pegg commented, "We're both [Pegg and Wright] from the West Country so it just seemed like it was the perfect and logical thing to drag those kind of ideas and those genres and those clichés back to our beginnings to where we grew up, so you could see high-octane balls-to-the-wall action in Frome".^[18] Stow-on-the-Wold was considered amongst others, but after being turned away, the company settled upon Wells in Somerset, Wright's hometown,^[19] of which he has said "I love it but I also want to trash it".^[20] Wells Cathedral was digitally painted out of every shot of the cathedral city, as Wright wanted the Church of St Cuthbert to be the centre building for the fictional town of Sandford;^[21] however, the Bishop's Palace is identifiable in some shots (and was itself used as the setting for some scenes).^[22] While shooting scenes in their uniforms, Pegg and Frost were often mistaken for genuine police officers and asked for directions by passers-by.^[23] Filming also took place at the Hendon Police College, including the driving school skid pan and athletic track and at the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre at Gravesend.^[24] Next to Hendon is Mill Hill where Finchley Nurseries is located which is where the flower shop scene was filmed.^[25] The final scenes were filmed at the surviving ruins of Waverley Abbey.^[26] Filming commenced on 19 March 2006 and lasted for eleven weeks.^[27]^[28] After editing, Wright ended up cutting half-an-hour of footage from the film.^[29]

Outside references

Self-references

Wright has said that Hot Fuzz takes elements from his final amateur film, Dead Right, which he described as both "Lethal Weapon set in Somerset" and "a Dirty Harry film in Somerset".^[20] He uses some of the same locations in both films, including the Somerfield supermarket, where he used to work as a shelf-stacker.^[20]

References to Shaun of the Dead are also present in the film. In one scene, Nicholas wants to chase a shoplifter by jumping over several garden fences; however, Danny is reluctant. Nicholas says, "What's the matter, Danny? You never taken a shortcut before?" He smiles assuredly before jumping over four in a row (according to the DVD commentary, Pegg vaulted over three fences, and a stunt man did a back flip over the fourth). When Danny attempts it, he trips and falls through the first fence and climbs over the second. This is almost identical to a scene in Shaun of the Dead, including the fall-through-fence gag, albeit with the pratfalling role reverse: in Shaun of the Dead it happens to Pegg's character rather than Frost's, and he falls over the fence rather than through it. The DVD commentary says that Frost purposely looked back at the camera after crashing through the fence, to show that he had done the stunt rather than someone else.

Frost's characters (Danny in Hot Fuzz, Ed in Shaun of the Dead) have a liking for Cornetto ice cream.^[30] Pegg and Wright have referred to Hot Fuzz as being the second film in the "Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy", with Shaun of the Dead being the first and The World's End being the third.^[31]^[32]

Other films

Various scenes in Hot Fuzz feature a variety of action film DVDs such as Police Story 3: Super Cop and scenes from Point Break and Bad Boys II. Wright revealed that he had to get permission from every actor in each video clip, including stunt men, to use the clips and for the use of the DVD covers had to pay for the rights from the respective studios.^[33] The film parodies clichés used in other action movies. On the topic of perceived gun fetishes in these movies, Pegg has said, "Men can't do that thing, which is the greatest achievement of humankind, which is to make another human, so we make metal versions of our own penises and fire more bits of metal out of the end into people's heads... It's our turn to grab the gun by the hilt and fire it into your face."^[18] Despite this, Pegg maintains that the film is not a spoof, in that "They lack the sneer that a lot of parodies have that look down on their source material. Because we're looking up to it."^[34] The film also includes various references to The Wicker Man, in which Edward Woodward had played a policeman tough on law and order.^[35]

Special effects

To illustrate the destruction of the mansion as a result of the gas explosion, gas mortars were placed in front of the building to create large-scale fireballs. The wave of fire engulfs the camera, and to achieve that effect, gas mortars were used again but were fired upwards into a black ceiling piece that sloped up towards the camera.^[36] When the sequence was shot at a high speed, the flames appeared to surge across the ground. For one of the final scenes of the film, the Sandford police station is destroyed by an explosion. Part of the explosion was created by using a set model that showed its windows being blown out, while the building remained intact. The actual destruction of the building was depicted by exploding a miniature model of the station.^[21]

Similar to the work in Shaun of the Dead, blood and gore was prevalent throughout the film. Visual effects supervisor Richard Briscoe revealed the rationale for using the large amounts of blood: "In many ways, the more extreme you make it, the more people know it is stylised and enjoy the humour inherent in how ridiculous it is. It's rather like the (eventually) limbless Black Knight in [Monty Python and the Holy Grail]."^[36] The most time-consuming gore sequence involved a character's head being crushed by a section of a church. A dummy was used against a green screen and the head was detonated at the point when the object was about to impact the body. Throughout the film, over seventy gunfight shots were digitally augmented; Briscoe's rationale for adding the additional effects was that "The town square shootout, for example, is full of extra little hits scattered throughout, so that it feels like our hero characters really do have it all going off, all around them. It was a great demonstration of [how] seemingly very trivial enhancements can make a difference when combined across a sequence."^[36]

Promotion

The first two teaser trailers were released on 16 October 2006. Wright, Pegg, and Frost maintained several video blogs, which were released at various times throughout the production of the film.^[37] Wright and Frost held a panel at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con to promote Hot Fuzz, which included preliminary footage and a question and answer session.^[38] The two returned to the convention again in 2007 to promote the US DVD release.^[39] Advance screenings of the film took place on 14 February 2007 in the UK and the world premiere was on 16 February 2007. The premiere included escorts from motorcycle police officers and the use of blue carpet instead of the traditional red carpet.^[40]

Release

Critical reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 91% approval rating with an average rating of 7.7/10 based on 204 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "The brilliant minds behind Shaun of the Dead successfully take a shot at the buddy cop genre with Hot Fuzz. The result is a bitingly satiric and hugely entertaining parody."^[41] It has a Metacritic score of 81 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[42] Olly Richards of Empire praised the chemistry between Pegg and Frost, saying: "After almost a decade together, they're clearly so comfortable in each other's presence that they feel no need to fight for the punchline, making them terrific company for two hours".^[43]

Philip French of The Observer, who did not care for Shaun of the Dead, warmed to the comedy team in this film.^[44] The film also received positive reviews in the United States. Derek Elley of Variety praised Broadbent and Dalton as "especially good as Angel's hail-fellow-well-met superior and oily No. 1 suspect".^[45] As an homage to the genre, the film was well received by screenwriter Shane Black.^[29] Despite being mostly praised, not all reviews were positive. The Daily Mirror gave Hot Fuzz only 2/5, stating that "many of the jokes miss their target" as the film becomes more action-based.^[46] Anthony Quinn of The Independent said, "The same impish spirit [as in Spaced] is uncorked here, but it has been fatally indulged".^[47]

In 2016, Empire magazine ranked Hot Fuzz 50th on their list of the 100 best British films, with their entry stating, "the second in their planned trilogy again nails the genre clichés, with everything from Point Break to Bad Boys II (both openly referenced) humorously homaged. Pegg's natural chemistry with long-time real-life pal Frost remains endearing as ever. Elsewhere, the Scooby-Doo-meets-Scream mystery is peppered with Britain's finest talent, playing up the English small-town clichés to great effect in a brilliantly incongruous meeting of sleepy rural life and stabby violent action."^[48]

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
Empire Awards^[49]	Best Comedy	Hot Fuzz	Won
	Best British Film	Hot Fuzz	Nominated
	Best Actor	Simon Pegg	Nominated
	Best Director	Edgar Wright	Nominated

Box office

The film generated £7.1 million in its first weekend of release in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2007.^[50] In 20 April US opening weekend, the film grossed $5.8 million from only 825 cinemas, making it the highest per-cinema average of any film in the top ten that week.^[1] Its opening weekend take beat the $3.3 million opening weekend gross of Pegg and Wright's previous film, Shaun of the Dead. In its second weekend of release, Rogue Pictures expanded the film's cinema count from 825 to 1,272 and it grossed $4.9 million, representing a 17% dip in the gross.^[51] Altogether, Hot Fuzz grossed $80,573,774 worldwide.^[1] In nine weeks, the film earned nearly twice what Shaun of the Dead made in the US, and more than three times its gross in other countries.^[52]

Home media

The DVD was released on 11 June 2007 in the UK. Over one million DVDs were sold in the UK in the first four weeks of its release.^[53] The two-disc set contains the feature film with commentaries, outtakes, storyboards, deleted scenes, a making-of documentary, video blogs, featurettes, galleries, and some hidden easter eggs. The DVD also features Wright's last amateur film, Dead Right, which he described as "Hot Fuzz without the budget". The film appeared on region 2 DVD earlier than the theatrical release date in Germany, which was on 14 June 2007.^[54] In the commentary with director Wright and fellow filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, they discuss nearly 200 films.^[55]

The US DVD and HD DVD release was on 31 July 2007. It opened at #2 at the American DVD sales chart, selling 853,000 units for over $14m in revenue. 1,923,000 units have been sold, acquiring revenue of $33.3 million.^[56] The HD DVD edition has more special features than the standard DVD release. A three-disc collector's edition was released on 27 November 2007 and a Blu-ray edition on 22 September 2009.^[57]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album, Hot Fuzz: Music from the Motion Picture, was released on 19 February 2007 in the United Kingdom, and on 17 April 2007 in the United States and Canada. The UK release contains 22 tracks, and the North American release has 14. The film's score is by British composer David Arnold, who scored the James Bond film series from 1997 to 2008. The soundtrack album's "Hot Fuzz Suite" is a compilation of excerpts from Arnold's score.^[58] According to the DVD commentary, the scenes where Nicholas Angel is at a convenience store, while leaving Sandford, and his return to the police station while arming for the final shootout (found in the track "Avenging Angel"), were scored by Robert Rodríguez, who did not see the rest of the film while writing the music.

Other music from the film is a mix of 1960s and 1970s British rock (The Kinks, T. Rex, The Move, Sweet, The Troggs, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Cozy Powell, Dire Straits), new wave (Adam Ant, XTC) and a Glaswegian indie band (The Fratellis).^[58]^[59] The soundtrack album features dialogue extracts by Pegg, Frost, and other cast members, mostly embedded in the music tracks.^[60] The song selection also includes some police-themed titles, including Supergrass' "Caught by the Fuzz" as well as "Here Come the Fuzz", which was specially composed for the film by Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion.^[21]^[58]

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Films written	Shaun of the Dead (2004) Hot Fuzz (2007) Run Fatboy Run (2007) Paul (2011) The World's End (2013) Star Trek Beyond (2016)
TV series created	Spaced (1999–2001) Truth Seekers (2020)
Related	Stolen Picture

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Other	MusicBrainz release group