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Summary: my god, what a horrible movie!
Review: the script might be written by a brain-dead person. the whole film dragged on like a leaking suv tire, slowly turned soft and under pressure and finally totally became flat. yeah, flat. i could never imagine that harrison ford would have agreed to take this role or even agreed to read the script before signed on. did he know that how pathetic he would have turned to be by accepting such role? my god, a nightmare. this is one of the worst movies i've seen so far in year 2003. amen.
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Summary: Is Harrison Ford really this desperate for roles?
Review: Summary:
Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his partner, K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), are homicide detectives in Hollywood. But, that's not all... Gavilan also dabbles in real estate as a second income and K.C. is a Yoga instructor and 'wannabe' actor. The movie begins with the murders of the members of an up and coming rap group, H2OClick. Gavilan and Calden are called in to investigate the murders only to find that it was actually the owner of the recording studio that had a contract with the group that ordered the murders, Antoine Sartain (Isaiah Washington). As it just so happens, the former partner of Calden's father, Leroy Wasley (Dwight Yoakam), is in charge of Sartain's security - he hires the hitmen then kills them when they've finished their jobs. The rest of the movie involves Gavilan and Calden tracking down Wasley and Sartain while at the same time Gavilan is trying to make a huge sell and Calden, who does the Yoga instruction just to meet women, is pursuing a career as an actor. My Comments:
I do have to admit that I laughed while watching this movie, but only about four times. This movie was supposed to be a comedy, really! But, well, it falls dramatically short on the delivery. When I think of the ideal people for a buddy cop comedy, Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett are not the first two names that come to mind. Geez, if Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy can't pull off a buddy cop movie, Ford and Hartnett don't have a prayer. Anyway, the story is almost interesting but only because it shows pretty much every cop as having a second job. Whether or not this is true to life, I don't know; I'm not a cop. But it was at least a little bit new. There are a number of problems with the story, but the major problem is the investigation of Gavilan by Lt. Bennie Macko (Bruce Greenwood). The movie keeps trying to give some explanation for the investigation, but it never actually makes any sense. Supposedly they think Gavilan is taking money, but then they accuse him of meeting with 'bad people' and prostitutes and who knows what else. They only way this added to the film was by giving Gavilan someone to sleep with, Ruby (Lena Olin), who also just happens to be Macko's ex-wife. Also, the connection between Wasley and Calden is another big, big coincidence that just doesn't work. It's almost as though the writers found as many things as they could to possibly complicate the movie and put them all into it with the hopes that people wouldn't see this as 'just another buddy cop' movie. The result, just another buddy cop movie... but one that isn't funny and has far too many coincidences. The acting is okay, but, despite being a big fan of Harrison Ford, I really didn't think he was that great in this film. This just isn't his genre. He needs to stick the 'drama with a bit of action' genre. As for Josh Hartnet, well, he was okay, but again, not very convincing. Also, neither of these two are funny. The only funny elements of the movie revolved around Gavlin's make real estate deals while chasing Sartain. It didn't really make any sense, but it was a little bit funny. The rest of the acting was about what you would expect from an episode of NYPD Blue. Overall, as buddy cop movies go, this isn't funny, the story is too complicated for its own good, and the actors are out of place. I don't believe any of the buddy cop movies following Rush Hour have even come close to equaling its humor and action; this is not the exception. I would highly not recommend this movie.
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Summary: Worst movie of the summer
Review: I came into the movie theater thinking that it was going to be a great movie, Harrison Ford and Josh H, but I was sadly disapointed. I comibination did nothing to complament one another. The movie focused too much on Ford's realastate business while Josh was played out as a sex god, not letting him give his best in the film. In the end, I think that this film could have been MUCH better than was it really was.
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Summary: Fun movie
Review: Don't be fooled by the negative comments . . . Harrison and Josh had great chemistry in this very funny movie with great lines. It was a laugh-out-loud kind of movie. I cannot wait for the DVD to come out so I can watch it again. Harrison Ford really lets loose with this one.
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Summary: terrible movie
Review: I LOVE Harrison Ford and have over 15 of his movies on DVD. I wouldn't own this DVD for anything, this is a terrible movie and the leads have no chemistry together, constant awkwardness, Josh is silly...I would not see this movie again. All of Harrison's other movies I watch over and over and fall in love with again and again. This movie was a waste of his time and creative energy. I really wouldn't even give it 1 star.
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Summary: Enjoyable Fluff
Review: "Hollywood Homicide" wasn't what I expected at all. First off, it was a lot funnier and a lot more fun than I had been led to believe from the advertisements, which seemed to show a straightforward action-cop flick. But that's misleading. Instead, it's a lighthearted romp much in the style of a "Die Hard" or "True Lies," a high-speed action film with a good deal of tongue-in-cheek humor and poking fun at everyone, notably the age-old, crusty, buddy-cop movie itself (heck, it's just this side of being flat-out satire). Cell phones, everyone in Hollywood wants to be an actor or to sell a script, old guys vs. young guys, all the cliches. They're not in here by accident. Harrison Ford stars as Joe Gavilan, put-upon Los Angeles police sergeant detective with a handful of ex-wives and a faltering real estate business who knows his police work but struggles to deal with his life outside the department. His partner, K.C. Calden, played by Josh Hartnett, is a young idealistic yoga instructor who has a way with the ladies and is apparently only on the force because his father was. What he REALLY wants to be is an actor (of course!). But to give the story a little meat (or, at least, protein-based tofu), naturally, his father was killed on duty under some shady circumstances, and his shady partner got off scot-free. That's foreshadowing, mark of quality literature. No, the story isn't deep (unless it's so deep it's shallow). Joe and K.C. are called to the scene of a brutal shooting where an up-and-coming rap group were senselessly slain in apparent executioner style. The chase is on. While the heroes search for the gunmen, we in the audience find out right away that of course they are only hired guns -- they arrive at a pre-arranged meeting spot to get their money for carrying out the hit where they are ruthlessly slaughtered by the big boss and henchman, who turn out to be the head of the rap group's record label, Antoine Sartain (Isaiah Washington) and (ta da!) the shady partner of Hartnell's father, Leroy Wasley (Dwight Yoakam). A couple of hops, skips, and jumps, and you know the score, the bad guys lose and the good guys win. No, it's not a terribly complex storyline; it's also paved with dangling plotlines which were probably tossed in to show "there's a life outside of this story," but it was often frustrating to be shown tidbits with no relation to the main storyline (it's not the story, it's the jokes which are important); but where "Hollywood Homicide" comes up all right is the interaction between Ford and Hartnett. Both turn in easy, comfortable, and likeable performances, making their characters fun and interesting, particularly Ford, who is at his butt-kicking, getting-his-butt-kicked best (probably a bit of a waste in a throwaway film like this, but hey, he's Harrison Ford). Likewise, supporting characters are fun and interesting, including Martin Landau as a aging movie producer, Master P as a rap club owner Ford is trying to sell a house to, and Gladys Knight as the mother of a witness on the lamb. The main problem lies in the two-D villains. Not only are we shown from the onset who the bad guys are, it's fairly obvious from the beginning that our heroes pretty much know, too, so it's only a drawn-out chase, leading to the actual chase (with a terrific send-up of LA high speed chases, including media choppers). While Washington is reasonably convincing in his role (Hey, look out, Joe, he's a bad guy! Joe knows already), it's very much a single-celled character; with Yoakam it's almost worse, because it's just an amalgamation of the same character(s) he's been playing in his last few major releases -- a character who is a swaggering bully like Doyle (Sling Blade), cold and cruel like Raoul (Panic Room), and hysterical and whining like Glasscock (Newton Boys). I can appreciate wanting to play so far from type, but when you play against "type" all the time, guess what... it's typecasting again. It's time for Yoakam to show he can play more than a thug. The action is non-stop, the pacing even, the acting pretty good for a bit of fluff like this is. Very enjoyable. Cameos of Lou Diamond Phillips, Eric Idle, and notably Robert Wagner with Honorary Hollywood Mayor Johnny Grant are riots.
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Summary: Too many stories to follow
Review: The main reason I didn't like this movie was because there were too many stories to follow. There were too many stories and conflicts going on at the same time that it started to give me a headache trying to keep track with it. About two-thirds of the way through, the movie started getting good, plus the car chase scence in this movie was good as well. It was just way too late in the movie for me to start liking it.
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Summary: Hollywood Homicide
Review: Hollywood Homicide is a very funny and very interesting movie. Josh Hartnett and Harison Ford have good chemistry onscreen and define each other well. It is a great movie with a great storyline and if that doesn't convince you theres Josh Hartnett half naked screaming STELLLA STELLA.
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Summary: Funny like the Lethal Weapon movies.
Review: Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett are so hilarious like at the beginning when they are in cop buisness and Ford he wants a chesseburger and when Ford is borrowing a girl's bycicle and she says "Hey!" and he screams. Ford is a cop who also sells houses. Josh Hartnett is the guy that teaches girls to exercise and a cop and he wants to be an actor.
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Summary: It should be called Hollywood Suicide
Review: I felt like Hanging myself when i seen this, its probably the most boring movie since ever Do not see this movie ever........
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