Posts Tagged ‘cops’
Author: James
A great heist movie? Bank on it
About 15 minutes into Spike Lee’s Inside Man (2006), I started to get that sinking feeling. Here we go again. Triffic. Another robbery thriller with really nasty criminals (led by Clive Owen as Dalton Russell) versus the good guys (with Denzel Washington as honest, tough, smooth-talking cop Keith Frazier in charge). You know the kind? Think Die Hard (1988). Again.
Author: Colin
A policeman’s lot is quite a gruesome one
Another slab of in-your-face comic genius from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and many of the usual suspects from Spaced.
The story – somewhat light though it may be in parts – is simple. A big-city cop gets injured and is shipped off to some backwater town to play out his days until retirement. Nick Angel (Pegg) has an impressive arrest record and a keen eye for laws being broken. It is only fitting, therefore, that his partner should be a bumbling country copper with a distinct preference for Cornetto ice cream over any actual police work.
Author: James
Copper-bottomed comedy
Messrs Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are fast becoming the benchmark for what it means to be funny – comic actor and writer Pegg first paired up with writer/director Wright for the sensational Spaced sit-com, and they have subsequently worked together on the marvellous ‘not with a bang but a belly-laugh’ zombie pastiche, Shaun of the Dead (2004).
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