[Revisit Review]
Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz was and is a miracle of comedic filmmaking. It has one of the most ruthlessly sharp and well-constructed screenplays this side of Robert Smith’s for Irving Pichel’s Quicksand! (1950): not a line is wasted or unnecessary. The use of editing to highlight comedic scenes—fast-paced, dramatic cutting for absurdly mundane activities like filling out paperwork—is magnificent. Just like his previous endeavor Shaun of the Dead (2004) which doubled as a gut-busting comedy and a truly chilling zombie horror film, Hot Fuzz works in its own right as both a mystery thriller and an action cop movie. Wright understands that the best parodies, satires, and tributes can stand on their own merits as representations of the things they’re lampooning. This is a lesson most modern filmmakers have woefully missed.
9/10
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