another unrealistic police story

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2002)

Insomnia ranks right up there with "bone collector" for unrealistic police movies. Al pacino just drops out of a parachute to come "help" with a murder in Alaska? Huh? What did they run out of homicides in Los Angeles and he's now free-lancing throughout the country messing up other police jurisdictions.
For being supposedly a veteran seasoned cop, he shoots his partner based on the sound of a gunshot?!? Don't let dude work halloween, the very sound of a firecracker could set off some bloody carnage....and I'm sorry about the loss of your son whose muffler backfired on rodeo drive.
Hillary Swank plays the doey-eyed detective who eventually puts all of the pieces together but the only mystery here is why the town invited some jack-ass burned out rogue cop up from La-La land to sticksville and listened to every word he said like it was gospel!
I had but one question after watching the dvd of insomnia. Why was this movie made?