Very well executed

This is How Movies Should Be Made

Not even bad in a good way

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I expected something better from this film because it brings together some great actors and the director is known for his former films, which I liked a lot. But I was disappointed and I was praying for this film to end when I was watching it.

I really couldn't decide which film I liked more, Hot Fuzz or this one, so I had to give them the same rating. They're in the Cornetto trilogy but they couldn't be any more different. This really is the most imaginative film of the three while it battles with growing up and not living in the past. Not to mention this is an amazing cast; arguably the best cast of the three films. It's a film that goes off the rails, but not in a bad way, but a carefully designed one. It's also where I first fell in love with Rosamund Pike.

I must start by admitting to have reviewed this previously and removed it, last time round I must have been in a bad mood, I criticised it for going off the boil, however in recent times I've gotten so into it, it's meant to be bonkers, outrageous and utterly over the top and it sure is. I think there's something incredibly British about the humour, the world could come to an end, but there's still time for nostalgia, and more importantly there's still time for a pint. It's still perhaps my least favourite of The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, but the other two are that good, and hard acts to follow. It is clever, it's witty, and which of us doesn't know a Gary? If only it didn't have to be a trilogy, would have loved more from this successful group, it's an underrated gem.

I find it very odd that identical film concepts always seem to appear within a few months of each other, even if they were conceived totally in isolation - 'Olympus Has Fallen'/'White House Down', 'Deep Impact'/'Armageddon', 'This Is The End'/'The World's End'. In this case, although I liked 'This Is The End', I enjoyed 'The World's End' much more. It is faster paced, has more laugh-out-loud moments, a better soundtrack and a more satisfying conclusion.Yes, it's the end of the "Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy", but hopefully only the middle of Wright/Frost/Pegg's working career together, since 'Spaced', 'Shaun of the Dead' & 'Hot Fuzz' have all been great. This film takes plenty of time to establish the characters and give them each a backstory. Once they eventually discover the "blanks", they're a quarter of the way through the pub crawl - "The Golden Mile". Best quote - Pegg to Frost: "A man of your legendary prowess drinking rain! It's like a lion eating humus!"From there on, it's a battle - literally, with the Pierce Brosnan-led "blanks" - and verbally between the "five musketeers", as Pegg tries to get them to all twelve pubs, despite their dire circumstances. There are plenty of throwbacks to 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', and the action really ramps up in the last 30min. The best bit is probably Bill Nighy at the end, with Pegg & Frost arguing with him and using the refrain of "Because I'm free, to do what I want, to be what I want, any old time. And I'm free, to be who I choose, to get my booze, any old time" which has been recurring since the start of the film (from the Soup Dragons' 1990 cover, not the Rolling Stones' 1965 original).