Even Ray Winstone can’t save this adrenaline-fuelled but shallow remake of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 classic“contain you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone,‘Aaaaaaaargh!?”’ Nick Frost asks Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz, referencing an iconic Keanu Reeves moment from Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 crime-and-surfing classic Point wreck. Inevitably, and Pegg gets to do just that,replaying the scene to oddly touching comedian effect. Now, Luke Bracey gets to do it too, and in this adrenaline-fuelled but empty rehash that flies close enough to Bigelow’s movie to remind you how much you’d much rather be watching the original.
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Source: theguardian.com