Difference between American and British Cop buddy movies

  Reticently seeing "Hot Fuzz" a movie about a British cop finding out who is killing many and finding out it's a cult, played by Simon Pegg, got me to thinking about other cop buddy movies. Not many being funny but more action thrilled.


   It didn't involve Timothy Dalton getting impaled at the end by a model of the city, and yet surviving and a swan trying to kill Jim Broadbent at the end too. But it seems action cop buddy movies are more for action while the British are more for the paper work. It could be in the case for "Hot Fuzz" but when I see movies like:
Rush Hour, Turner and Hooch, Bad Boys, Starsky and Hutch (the movie), Lethal Weapon it seems it's more about the action. Someone gets hurt, blown up, held hostage, got knows what happens, but it seems at the end there's a death of a dog like in Turner and Hooch.

Sad it is but.... with "Hot Fuzz" nobody dies at the end, nobody. Not even the villains. Amazing.
 And then there's crap buddy comedy flicks, like two guys dressing up as women or a kid partnering up with Burt Reynolds, Arnold Schwarzenegger being a kindergarten teacher to find a murder victim (although that movie was pretty funny) until the sequel came out.

      Female cop buddy movies have the same formula as well, but they fall in the cracks of not being great near the climax of getting the bad guy unless they know what they are doing.

   With Lethal Weapon, you just have Mel Gibson acting weird before he did, and with Beverly Hills Cop, you just get the sequels as well as you did with Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour. Jackie Chan I like but I don't care for Chris Tucker's annoying wailing. Bad Boys was more a Will Smith, Martian Lawrence Buddy Cop movie that had more sequels as well.

   There aren't many British Cop Buddy movies I've seen but there are a few, that involve more in the details than the action. Hot Fuzz is one of them, involving more detail of what happens in an everyday life of  one cop when he's faced in danger.

   Till then, knowing what is worth watching and what is not, I know that Hot Fuzz was pretty entertaining and knowing that it showed more what cops do on the daily bases, paperwork. But there are other cop buddy movies out there that are pretty much worth the watch without it ending up screwing out in the end by someone dying.

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