Not as good as it's supposed to be

Rating: 4/10 (11 October 2007)

I had many problems with this picture. Being a brit myself i expected a funny, gory, bubbly romp like Shaun of the dead. Instead i got an overlong, half-baked, marginally funny movie that wasn't much fun. A boring spoof on the buddy cop genre.
The film stars simon pegg as a cop who has been moved to sanford to work. He makes friends with a fellow cop, but is suspicious about the towns lack of crime and high levels of "accidents". He then finds out what the cause is.
In the area of faint praise, Hot fuzz has a decent finale. The gun fight between the villagers and the cops is well staged and pretty funny. It's a shame we have to sit through a lot of sappy, wooden rubbish before we get to this point.
Hot fuzz is no where near as good as the reviews suggest. But it's not awful either.