Hot Fuzz (2007, GBR/FRA) C-121m. SCOPE **½ D: Edgar Wright. Starring Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Bill Nighy, Billie Whitelaw, Nick Frost, Edward Woodward, Steve Coogan. Pretty demented action comedy from the team that brought you SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004). Pegg plays an over-ambitious policeman who is transferred to a rural community, where his antics are not at all welcome. Film then turns from comedy to murder mystery and then delivers a crazy 30-minute action finale that will knock you out of your socks. Uneven, to state the obvious, with dynamic, flashy editing that becomes irritating after a while. Excellent special make-up effects. Peter Jackson appears unbilled as the Santa that stabs through Pegg's hand and Cate Blanchett is also unrecognizable as Pegg's masked C.S.I. ex-girlfriend. Pegg coscripted with the director.