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Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park. The film follows two police officers attempting to solve a series of mysterious deaths in a small village.

Nicholas Angel, an extremely dedicated police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service, performs his duties so well that he is accused of making his colleagues look bad. As a result, his superiors transfer him to crime-free Sandford, a village in rural Gloucestershire. Once there, he immediately arrests a large group of underage drinkers and a drunk driver, who turns out to be his eventual partner, Danny Butterman, the son of local police inspector Frank Butterman. Danny, a well-meaning but naive police constable, is in awe of his new partner. Angel struggles to adjust to the slow, uneventful pace of the village. Despite clearing up several otherwise unnoticed crimes in short order, including confiscating a sea mine and a number of unlicensed firearms, Angel soon finds his most pressing concern to be an escaped swan. His strict attention to the letter of the law also makes him the focus of dislike by some of his co-workers. However, Angel and Danny eventually bond over drinks at the local pub and action films.

A series of gruesome deaths rock the village and all are labeled as accidents. Angel, believing the deaths to be murders, begins to investigate. He arrests Simon Skinner, the manager of a supermarket, of suspicion of murdering the victims due to their involvement in a lucrative property deal. However, Skinner is able to provide plausible explanations for all of Angel's charges and goes free.

When Angel returns to his hotel room and is attacked by a cloaked figure, he knocks the attacker unconscious, discovering it is a supermarket employee sent by Skinner. Angel heads to a nearby castle where he discovers the truth: Skinner, Inspector Butterman, and the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA), intent on keeping Sandford's title of "Village of the Year", have been murdering anyone who they saw as a threat to the village's charming image. As Angel flees, he discovers the bodies of various people disposed of by the NWA, and escapes with the assistance of Danny.

Angel decides to return to the village where he arms himself with the confiscated firearms. After Angel meets with Danny in the village, the two begin to dispatch the members of the NWA in a series of gun fights. Confronted by their colleagues, who are quickly persuaded of the truth, Angel and Danny take the battle to the supermarket. Skinner and Inspector Butterman flee, and are pursued by Angel and Danny to a nearby miniature park. There, Angel battles Skinner, who accidentally impales himself on the spire of the miniature cathedral. Inspector Butterman attempts to escape in a car, but crashes into a tree when the missing swan attacks him from the back seat.

Angel's former superiors arrive from London begging him to return, as crime has risen without him, but Angel chooses to remain in Sandford. Back at the police station, Tom Weaver, the last remaining member of the NWA, attempts to shoot Angel, but Danny jumps in the way and takes the shot. In the resulting chaos, the confiscated sea mine is triggered and the station is destroyed. One year later, Angel lays flowers on a grave marked 'Butterman'; it is revealed that Danny has survived and the grave is his mother's. As Danny is now a sergeant and Angel the head of the Sandford Police Service, the two head off to patrol Sandford.