Filmmakers the world over are enamored with movies about police forces and the numerous issues that come up when working in one.
Simply put, directors often think that if they simply put wild police scenes in a movie, from people firing guns out of cars to people being chased in the suburbs and jumping over a Connecticut fence, that they can make money on their movie.
No matter what city the movie takes place in, whether it is a CT fence or one found around a junk yard in New York, these types of action scene add to the excitement that movie goers crave.
Often times this simplistic approach to making movies is rewarded with high box office sales numbers and good reviews, and often times they are well deserved.
Some of the best action movies are about the police and the work that they do.
One of these cop movies is called Hot Fuzz and was produced in England by the same team that has made other funny but sometimes sad movies like Shaun of the Dead.
The plot of the movie is that highly trained, intense and motivated officer Nicholas Angel from London has embarrassed the rest of the force by being so good, and as such has been sent to a small and quaint town where he will probably have nothing to do.
Once in his new home Nicholas finds out that he has been partnered with an overweight officer named Danny Butterman, who believes everything he is seen in police movies is true and who just so happens to be the son of the police chief.
After a series of gruesome and seemingly accidental deaths it is discovered that not everything is as tranquil as it seems in the town of Sandford and Nicholas has to turn Danny into a real and effective officer to make things right again.
Another popular police movie is Rush Hour.
Rush Hour is about a kidnapping and following ransom of the daughter of a Chinese diplomat.
The movie stars actor Chris Tucker as a loud mouthed policeman by the last name of Carter who is not taken seriously by essentially anybody that he works with for the LAPD and Jackie Chan stars as detective Lee, a man who flies to Los Angeles from China for the sole purpose of finding his friend the diplomat's daughter.
The two of them resent each other at the beginning and through about the middle of the movie, then as they begin to understand each other better they begin to figure out where the girl is and how they can get her back.
Finally, possibly the most popular movie of all time about police is Die Hard.
The film features Bruce Willis as police officer John McClane and the plot involves McClane trying to take back an office building after it is been taken over by terrorists.
There really is not a lot to the plot of Die Hard and basically it just involves John McClane running around and shooting criminals, then making sarcastic remarks about the way in which he shot them or just in general.
What is essentially the first movie as people would think of them now, The Great Train Robbery, was about robbery on a train and the police trying to catch them.
Since then there have been hundreds of movies about cops and as long as the box office numbers keep looking good that certainly should not and will not change.