Edgar Wright | 121 mins | cinema | 15 / R
Here come the fuzz!
I wasn’t hyped enough about this film to pay £10 to see it a week before release, and instead paid just £3.75 to see it in a big screen with just myself and a friend. Now that’s entertainment.
The brilliance of the situation aside, this is a damn good film. Most of its running time is devoted to high-quality comedy, and then it kicks into a full-blown action movie! Fantastic! I unreservedly recommend this to everyone, and especially to fans of action films and British comedies — do not miss this.
Hot Fuzz placed 2nd on my list of The Ten Best Films I Saw For the First Time in 2007, which can be read in full here.
Having had a rant about current cinema prices on twitter the other day, the fact this review mentions how much I paid back in 2007 led me to look up the current cost of tickets at the same cinema (a branch of a well-known chain).
It’s five-and-a-half years on, so of course prices will have gone up, but nonetheless I have two observations:
1) The cost of a regular (peak time) adult ticket is now £9.
2) The cost of the equivalent ticket to the one I bought is £5.40. That’s a 44% increase. An inflation calculator tells me that my 2007 ticket would today be exactly 20% more expensive.
Make of that what you will.
In some respects this 
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I hear that this is displeasing as an adaptation. But I haven’t read the novel, so that doesn’t cloud my judgement.
Murnau’s first film in America, throughout the decades hailed as one of the greatest film ever made.
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I was attracted to this because it was billed as a modern musical, with an impressive cast. Tsk.
I like a good musical. I wouldn’t say I was a fan of the genre on the whole, but I do enjoy good ones. South Pacific, to my mind, is not one of the very best, but it has its moments (and its songs!) and there are some fair points underlining the plot. If you don’t like musicals this one probably won’t convert you; if you’re a musical fan… well, you’ve probably already seen it.
Will Smith gives up the comedy act and blockbuster action for the sort of true story that you thought only happened in movies.
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