Rating: 
Summary: A Solid Piece of 'Hollywood'
Review: HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE isn't going to win an Oscar, but will likely win over its audience. The storyline is unique and relatable, which helps keep the audience's interest. The way in which the characters try to make time for both their police work and their side jobs is one of the funniest parts of the feature. The writers do a wonderful job of defining both Joe Gavilan and K.C. Calden. From their backgrounds to their cell phone rings, the movie shows these guys are polar opposites. Of course good writing can't succeed without good acting. No worries here, as both Ford and Harnett deliver in their respective roles ...
Rating: 
Summary: It doesn't get any worse than this, what a disappointment
Review: The premise to Hollywood Homicide is fairly straightforward, at first. Two cops, Joe Gavilan, a veteran detective of the LAPD, and his newly assigned partner K. C. Calden, somewhat of a rookie at the job, find themselves thrust in the midst of a high profile investigation involving the murder of an up and coming hip-hop band. Yet instead of focusing on fleshing out the main story of the movie, the writers decide to throw in several other subplots, and the result is a convoluted mess that is dull as it is unbelievable. First of all, every character is conveniently connected to each other through ex-girlfriend, old grudges or some previous associations. Then there is the second profession in which both of the leading characters have taken: Gavilan dabbles in selling real estate while Calden teaches yoga and dreams of being an actor. The running gag of Gavilan's cell phone ringing non-stop as he goes through the day, looking for a break in his big case, is tiresome and annoying. Don't get me started on the hokey internal affairs inquiry into Gavilan and his finances, it is poorly conceived, unnecessary, and absolutely ridiculous.Another of the most glaring problems to Hollywood Homicide is that neither Harrison Ford nor Josh Hartnett is known as comedic actors, so one would think that their charisma alone should be enough for the buddy cop formula to work. Suffice to say I was very disappointed, there was no chemistry between them to speak of. Ford's portrayal of Gavilan is embarrassingly awful, that not since his role of Quinn Harris in Six Days Seven Nights have I been so bored by his performance. Hartnett's Calden is equally a disaster, lacking all the gusto he had in Black Hawk Down, which makes me question all over again what is everybody seeing in him beyond the pretty boy look. The supporting cast is unforgivably underused in bit parts that are uninteresting and badly written. Had Hollywood Homicide been a satire about the police force, maybe I would have had more of an appreciation for the movie. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case here. Thus we were left with two individuals that want nothing to do with being cops, and since they disliked the job so much, you can well imagine how painful it was for the audiences to watch them doing something they are really terrible in. However, the aforementioned problem could have been overlooked if the film at least gave us some action to distract us from the paper-thin characters, but somehow it managed to botch the attempt. The only action scene to speak of came at the last twenty minutes of the picture, and the chase sequence was shoddily edited as well as anticlimactic. In the end, Hollywood Homicide was a bore and a chore of an experience. It is neither funny nor exciting, and there is almost no redeeming quality to the movie, what a waste of a talented cast.
Rating: 
Summary: 'Homicide' is truly criminal
Review: Hollywood Homicide just might be the worst film of the summer. I went into this film expecting an exciting, funny, buddy cop movie. What I got instead was an incoherent piece of Hollywood trash which is funnier in concept, then in execution.
Harrison Ford plays a Hollywood Homicide detective who moonlights as a real estate agent, who is also in love with a radio psychic. Josh Hartnett plays a dectective/ Yoga instructor whose in lust with his entire Yoga class, who wants be an actor and get revenge for his father's death on the side. While the comedic premise for this movie seems initially promising director Ron Shelton fails to guide the story with any comedic competance, and the story by the end of the film is completely incoherent.
Even though this film is being advertised as a buddy cop film, Ford and Hartnett share shockingly little screen time. For the most part they seem to be the stars of their own seperate films, and run into each other seemingly by accident. It's just as well as Ford and Hartnett have little to no, onscreen chemistry.
This is not the typical buddy cop movie where two polar opposites find a way to wrangle into each other's hearts. Far from. Ford seems more like Hartnett's favorite uncle, and the film begins with Ford covering up for Hartnett's sloppy police work. The message is clear right away, these two are already friends.
However, by passing this most obvious, but often most pleasurable conflict the film loses something. The first half of the film concentrates mostly on Ford's and Hartnett's second jobs. Ford's hybrid of Dirty Harry and Willy Lohman and Hartnett's new age guru are played out too long, for too few laughs. The movie's only real comic energy, and only masterful melding of the two concepts comes during a Police interrogation where Ford keeps getting calls on his cell phone regarding a property he's trying to sell, and Hartnett is doing Yoga excercises in the next interrogation room in order to 'center' himself from the unpleasantness of an internal affairs investigation.
The second half of the film is more purely a cop film, as Hartnett and Ford try to track down the murderers of four Hollywood rappers. Their second jobs still come up occasionally as if the producers were trying to say, "Hey's he's a cop, but he's also a Real Estate agent! AND THAT'S FUNNY."
While the film initially gives itself a little momentum after the interrogation scene, it quickly sputters again, and the cop movie cliche's come faster and more furiously. The film ends with a rather unspectacular car chase sequence, and the two cops go back to their seperate second jobs.
Harrison Ford provides the only burst of energy in this film, as he growls and hisses for both dramatic and comedic effect. Hartnett, however, seems truly lost. He's neither convincing enough comedicly or dramatically, and the focus of the film slowly drifts from his yoga instructor, to Ford's Real Estate agent.
The true shock of the film is everything Ron Shelton (director of Bull Durhum) tries to do, and how many things he fails to do. Shelton seems to have made no real creative choices here, but rather decided to throw everything in that he thought might prove to be mildly interesting. None of the dramatic conflicts are truly resoved, and it seems Shelton ended the picture here because he didn't know what else to do with it. It's just as well. By this point the audience can no longer keep track with everything that's supposed to be happening, let alone care about most of it.
Rating:
Summary: BUM RAP
Review: HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE plays like a Starsky and Hutch episode, that might air on Showtime since it's violent and has some nudity. Harrison Ford is a LAPD cop who moonlights as a real estate broker; Josh Hartnett is his young partner, who wants to be an actor and teaches some kind of yoga on the side. Together they investigate the execution style slaying of a rap group named H20 Slick, a group who was planning on getting out of their contract with a sleazy record producer, played by Isaiah Washington (True Crime, Ghost Ship). Add Bruce Greenwood (Below) as an IA cop who's trying to nail Ford due to an old vendetta; Gladys Knight as the mother of an eyewitness to the crime; Lena Olin as Ford's psychic radio star girlfriend; Lou Diamond Phillips as a male hooker undercover cop; Martin Landau as a hasbeen director; Master P as a record producer out to buy the perfect house; cameos by Robert Wagner and Eric Idle---you get the picture.
Ford and Hartnett have a good rapport and some of their dialogue is hilarious, but the movie is so disoriented and implausible, it leaves you wanting more...of what, I'm not sure, but something's missing.
Not a bad time passer.
Rating:
Summary: ok movie/ nothing great
Review: Hollywood Homicide is a decent movie.
nothing great. plot is ok, predictable. but good entertainment.
Rating:
Summary: Stupid azz film
Review: This film is terrible, spare yourselves the few dollars/pounds and buy a burger or something.It's more of a parody of cop buddy film more than a serious one. Hartnett and Harrison just don't match..wat were the producers/directors thinking. the acting is unconvincing, unfunny and un...everything related to a good film. The rappers make it worse. As i said in the title,this is a stupid azz film.
Rating: 
Summary: powerful among many things
Review: this movie:
made me laugh hard
made me cry at times
touched me
shocked me
thrilled me
great movie
great plot
great characters
great actors/actresses
see this movie
it's worth the laughs more and more every time I view it on my dvd player. I will watch it more over the days, months, years, it will still be a big hit 90 years from now. because of the whole movie. and the people who played in it and starred in it. whoo hooooo what a powerful movie this is and always will be
see Indiana Jones if you like Ford
Spawn from HBO series if you like Keith David
I got the hook up if you like Master P
Blow dry and other movies if you like Josh Hartnett
Alias if you like that one psychic woman in this movie
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Summary: What was Harrison thinking
Review: Hollywood homicide is a total joke a buddy cop film starring Harrison Ford and young actor Josh Hartnett. I am upset with Harrison these days he hasnt done a film that I've liked for years since The Fugitive in '93. This film is a boring film with no freshness or cleverness. Just another slam bang action film. I'm glad I didnt pay to see this film in the cinemas. I saw it on digital cable. I have to say Harrison Ford did'nt look like he was enjoying himself, he seemed disgruntled and is looking a little haggard these days. Whens the next Indy film coming out please he needs that old excitement back in his movies again. Why do Hollywood Homicide didnt he read the script before he did the film or was he forced at gun point to do this film.
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Summary: This movie has its moments
Review: A nice but ultimately weak effort to breathe new life into the buddy cop movie, this action flick stars mismatched partners Ford and Hartnett as the gruff elder and the naïve youngster as LAPD's finest. The movie's big innovation is that Ford moonlights as a realtor while Hartnett is an aspiring actor and yoga instructor, and they are far more passionate about their respective side jobs than being cops (at least the movie makes it appear that way at first). As the action progresses, Ford becomes enmeshed in a plan to negotiate a house sale between two of the principle witnesses, which leads to some pretty good jokes. There's also an ongoing joke that Ford is getting too old to physically run down the suspects, and his heavy breathing after an attempt is pretty funny, if only because so many other movies in the genre ignore that kind of thing. But the humor is limited to too few springboards, while the action is so standard that it might as well not even be there. Ditto the plot, which is a total paint-by-numbers good guys versus bad guys cliché. In the end, Hartnett decides to stick with the force, as he has taken a renewed pleasure in fighting for justice. The direction had some nice moments, and a surprisingly gritty feel for such a goofy innovation; the script had some good zingers in keeping with convention. Ultimately, the plot is where this film failed to keep our interest-a fifteen minute action sequence towards the end leaves absolutely no room for doubt or suspense, and that's just the final fight scene.
Rating:
Summary: Flatliner
Review: This film couldn't be flatter. Even if you stomped it into the ground, went over it with a steamroller and landed a plane on it. Even as a bog-standard 80's direct-to-video, el-cheapo cop-thriller this would be the crap-de-la-crap. Hollywood Homicide (rubbish title!) thankfully and fortunately flopped big time in the summer of 2003. Though the audience who said `no' to this were probably the same people who contributed to Bad Boys 2 (and equally terrible film from the same writer) being a success.
Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett play cops who moonlight as a real estate broker and yoga instructor. But Hartnett has aspirations to be an actor too (the irony is somewhat lost on him) and ends up yelling lines from A Streetcar Named Desire whenever he can. Oh stop it! My sides are splitting!
After a couple of rappers are gunned down in a nightclub they investigate. Ron Shelton manages to stretch out this incredibly NON-existent plot for very painful, very boring 115 minutes.
It tries to be funny, and thinks it is, but this arrogance only amplifies the tediousness of the rank-amateur script. I kid you not; I could have got a 12-year-old, hyper on Buzz Cola, to write something better and more professional.
Hollywood Homicide is UNBELIEVEABLY bad. And, I never thought I'd say this, it actually makes Showtime look good in comparison.
The DVD is 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1 sound. There are extras but I couldn't care less coz this film is rotten.
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