Oh man, this sure is the movie ever. Definitely enjoyed my time watching this. No, I'm kidding it's great. Might be the weakest of the three Simon Pegg & Nick Frost movies, (I think it's the Cornetto Trilogy), but it's still really good. It's funny and unique, but it also pulls a lot of elements from the other two in the "trilogy." Edgar Wright sticks to his guns here through subversive comedy and overly dramatized characters in wacky scenarios. It's a very powerful combination of elements, though, it does not get old. One thing I think this movie did better than the other two was the action sequences. They're synced up with the music which is rare anymore. But like the other two in the trilogy, there is a lot of action with fast camera motion and engaging action. "The World's End" is finally able to master the techniques that Wright uses for directing action scenes, where the camera moves fast but not too fast, and he's able to capture more in the scenes he does shoot. I love this movie just as much as the other ones in the Cornetto Trilogy. I think that Wright is able to get full performances out of just about everyone in the movie, and it goes to show just how diverse that Pegg and Frost are as actors, being three wildly different types of best friends across all the movies they share. 9.5/10
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Wow, who would've guessed it? Another Edgar Wright movie. Something else nobody would have guessed: this movie rocks. Hard. Going into it I wasn’t really expecting all that much to happen other than “uptight cop gets sent to countryside as part of a ‘promotion’ and tries to fit in.” And that was about half of the movie. But he doesn’t really begin to loosen up until the last quarter of the movie. As a result of him staying uptight for as long as he did, he and the village police, minus the sheriff, are able to uncover and take down a village-wide conspiracy that’s obsessed with winning the Village of the Year Award. So much so that they’re willing to kill anyone who threatens to take away that award from them. From the beginning of the movie, I don’t think anyone would have been able to guess what the ending of the movie would be. Like I said earlier, I genuinely thought that it was going to be a movie about a big city cop in a small town cleaning up the place. I mean I guess that’s the plot of the movie, but not in the way I expected it to unfold. However, this doesn’t mean I’m not a fan of everything this movie does. Because I am. Edgar Wright does a fantastic job of subverting the viewer’s expectations and setting up plot points from even the very beginning of the movie (the crossword bit). It’s a great comedy, a great action movie, and a great thriller all-in-one which I imagine wasn’t easy to pull off. Love it. 9.5/10 |
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