Wright, Pegg and Frost stick to the style that made Hot Fuzz, and to a lesser extent, Shaun of the Dead, so great. but...

(spoilers)

they also throw a lot of motifs into the mix, so much so that they start to contradict. Frost and Co. are boring, robotic adults...but Pegg is a kid and needs to grow up. the human race is too reliant on technology and passive to homogenization, but a system reboot has most of them in the same roles under shittier conditions. violence is fun but not the answer to the root problems -- the robots keep reviving themselves until the humans plead with twisted reason.

yet Pegg finds his place as a triumphant outlaw, going against the human error of discrimination (we hate "blanks" now) by...using violence. just a grab bag of messages that are never defined. if you can ignore them, it's a fun ride.

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