Tedious nonsense..........

Rating: 1/10 (20 October 2008)

First, at 121 minutes "Hot Fuzz" seems endless. Second, it plays like two separate movies. The first part is set up quite nicely with a big city cop being transferred to a sleepy little countryside village, because he is so good at his job that he makes the rest of the department look inefficient. After arriving in the small village, all of his fears about such a little hamlet having no meaningful police work seem well founded. Soon however, a series of what initially appear to be accidents, begin to arouse the new sergeant's suspicion that a murderer or murderers may be on the loose. Though there are moments of dark comedy within the story, the second part (final hour) is nothing more than "cartoon-like" violence, which becomes tedious and drags the entire film down to the level of total nonsense. Not recommended. - MERK