Chicago Sun-Times
Mary Houlihan |
6 |
...doesn't know when to quit. Without eliminating the laugh-out-loud moments and necessary action, 20 minutes could easily be shaved off the two-hour running time. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
7 |
...well worth seeing. |
E!
Alex Markerson |
10 |
It's hard to imagine having more fun in a theater without being arrested. |
filmcritic.com
Rachel Gordon |
8 |
...not only hilariously funny, but every intelligent detail makes sense this time around, and the action is that much more engaging for what takes place because of it. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
7 |
...is The Naked Gun and Lethal Weapon at the same time. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
8 |
...laceratingly entertaining... |
Reel
Pam Grady |
9 |
...wild, wonderful, and completely hysterical... |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
7 |
...deliberately revels in cliché overload as a means of lovingly parodying--as well as paying homage to--three decades-worth of trigger-happy films. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
8 |
...a very funny cop comedy... |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
8 |
A wee bit of plot tucked amid a fusillade of film-geek jokes and charming nonsense... |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust |
8 |
...the film joyfully wallows in Bruckheimerian excess -- over-the-top car chases, huge explosions and slow-motion gunplay. Even its primary downside, a two-hour-plus running time, would seem to be a byproduct of the indulgence. |
People
Leah Rozen |
7 |
...big laughs with guns ablazing. |
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas |
8 |
For most of its running time, it’s an enjoyably unpretentious celebration of the guilty pleasure we can take from a stupid-as-all-get-out car chase or from watching things blow up real good. |
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky |
9 |
At a running time of more than two hours, it's a wee bit lengthy; the thing's damned near epic. And yet to see it once is to fall in love and want to pay up immediately for another screening... |
Onion AV Club
Nathan Rabin |
9 |
Though it lags a bit in its second hour, Hot Fuzz is everything an action-comedy should be. |
Maxim
Pete Hammond |
6 |
It ain't Shakespeare, but it's hot fun. Nothing more, nothing less. |
Premiere
Glenn Kenny |
7 |
..deeply nuts and exhaustingly hilarious. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
9 |
It does for British cops what Shaun of the Dead did for the undead -- and that's a good thing. |
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