Edgar Wright, along with co-writer Simon Pegg and faithful stalwart Nick Frost, fuckin’ love movies.
Nick Angel (Simon Pegg) is one of the best cops in all of London. He is so good that he makes the rest of his department look bad in comparison. His arrest rate is 400% higher than anyone else! So the higher ups do the only thing they can think of — promote him to sergeant and ship him off to work in Stanford, the safest village in all of England. Here, Angel soon discovers that life is on a slightly different path, where the biggest problems seem to be a recurring “living statue” performance artist and an escaped swan. Angel also discovers that the town, which hasn’t had a reported murder in over twenty years, does seem to have an abnormal amount of fatal accidents. Angel’s city-trained mind kicks into overdrive, as he works alongside his new partner Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) to put clues together that nobody sees. Angel’s linked clues leads him to Simon Skinner (ex-Bond, Timothy Dalton) a local grocery store owner who may just have a bit too much to gain from the recent “accidents” of four locals, but will the rest of his squad even listen?
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