And of course, there were some lovely references to british policing today - liberal use of 'official vocab' and so on. We learn early on that Angel is a hard and fast policeman (his first night in the village ends up with a dozen arrests). So as angel softens to village life, those around him also step up their game - and end up being able to work together. We learn early on that there is a greater good - only to discover it's not the same portrayed. Fantastic cameos by many comedy greats - though we all need to give martin freeman a collective clip-round-the-ear for an awful haircut - and timothy dalton's re-appearance in my life didn't seem as boring as i thought it would - though he didn't quite pull off bergerac quite as well as nettles, suw is absolutely right at the stylistic misappropriation! pegg and wright both describe this film as british cop film meets american cop film and they fight it out at the end. That's a pretty succinct approximation of the film. and yes, the faceplant of the old woman... it just wasn't right. :)