Wright proved himself capable of shooting action just as well as comedy throughout the making of Hot Fuzz, even drawing high praise from a former James Bond in Dalton. Dalton remarked that the scene where he and Broadbents Frank escape from Angel and Danny in a police car shoot-out along a country lane was the most fun hed ever had on a film, which coming from someone whos been in such ridiculous escapades as Bond and Flash Gordon must stand out as a compliment. The other reference in that sequence comes from Lethal Weapon when Nicholas fights Skinner in the model village, it culminates with a busted water mains spraying both combatants, mirroring Mel Gibson and Gary Buseys 1987 duel. The actual fight itself is a homage to every action film which ends in a clichéd one-on-one duel. In the DVD commentary, Wright points to Commando, Predator, Black Rain, The Last Boy Sout, Speed and Training Day as his references, among others. Of course, after defeating Skinner, the high angle shot is a cliché in itself, usually symbolising the end of the action and thus the end of the film.Point 57 Timothy Daltons sudden resurrection from the fistic beatdown he endured is a reference to the action movie cliché that a true villain always has to defeated twice, even if the second was a second effort. The undisputed champions of this Gary Busey in Lethal Weapon and Alexander Godunov in Die Hard are referenced by Wright as the perfect examples of this trope. Skinners eventual impaling is a homage to the end of Universal Soldier, where Veronica Roberts also suffers a skewering.