Seriously overrated despite impressive technical details

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2007)

First of all, how this movie has found its way in the top250 on this site is beyond me. But let's not bring out the axe yet, there are some positive things to mention about this flick.
The camera work, editing and originality are top notch and really impressed me. It speeds up like a MTV music video in the right spots to not let seconds and minutes go to waste in parts of the story that are not essential, though you still catch all that is going on. Very impressive work and I applaud that.
The story in the movie is a standard one - hardened and tough city cop gets - against his will I might add - transfered to the rural area of his country, a small village full of "standard" rural movie characters; the majority are simply uneducated, ignorant and stupid people, especially the local police force.
Now to the bad stuff: the manuscript, the twists and the movie as a whole. There are two movies in the history that I have never, ever finished watching because it got so bad, it felt like a true waste of time finishing watching. Casshern was the first, Hot Fuzz sadly placed as my second.
Seriously. When you watch a movie and you acceleratingly just sigh, shake your head and say to yourself "Now what in the lord were they thinking when they decided to do it like this?", it's bad. I won't go into details, but story-wise I was not entertained (except for a few moments) when I tried watching, it was more the frustrating way because the characters were so non-believable and the story got more and more aggravating the longer it grew.
The movie was simply surreal (in a bad way) and cheap. Not in its budget, but in its performance. You can't make a good movie with a crappy manuscript where everything is built on silly prejudices and where the twists and explanations are just pitiful. The movie simply fell apart to pieces.