Hollywood Homicide

Rating:
Summary: A Hollywood Flop!!!
Review: The main positive of this film is you get both the widescreen and fullscreen versions of the film on one DVD. I really like seeing that feature, and wish more movies gave that option.
In this flop of a buddy cop comedy Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is a cop who is more into his real estate business and K C Calden (Josh Harnett) is his younger partner who would rather teach yoga classes and flirt with the yoga students in his class. Calden is also a wannabe actor. The movie begins with the murders an up and coming rap group H20 Click (hip hop artist Choppa one of the members lip synching terribly). During the investigation all clues lead to recording executive Antoine Sartain (Isaiah Washington- True Crime, Ghost Ship, Soul Food Series Season 1). In an even bigger twist (if you can even call it that) the former partner of Calden's father, Leroy Wasley is in charge of Sartain's security. The actual police case that the film is supposed to be investigating takes a back seat to their second jobs. In fact you are so irritated by the constant ringing of Harrison's cell phone you forget what this lousy movie is about in the first place. The rest of the movies is spent solving the case and Gavilan trying to sell the house that could give him a huge commission. Gavilan can't sell to save his life!!! Calden is seen rehearsing for a Street Car Named Desire. All I wanted to do was scream at my TV "Stick to being a cop and yoga instructor!!!!!!" The funniest part of the film was the K-Ro (Kurupt) chase scene. Kurupt had me laughing with the way he was running, and the crazy things he said, and did. Aside of that I had to struggle to watch this disaster of a film. Hollywood Homicide pretty much could describe the careers of anyone who starred in this flop. Will someone please inform Hollywood putting some rappers in movies is not going to guarantee a hit. All rappers can't act, so stop putting Master P in movies!!!!!! Uuuugggggghhhhhhhhh

Gladys Knight has a small role as mother to K-Ro. Lou Diamond Phillips has a role as a male hooker undercover cop; Martin Landau as a has been director; Smokey Robinson as a cab driver; let's just say all the cameos in the world could not save this pathetic movie!!!

The only reason I'm giving this movie a two rating is because of the Kurupt chase scene. I'm so happy I borrowed this from my local library, and did not spend my hard earned money to rent this. This movie is supposed to be a comedy, but trust me, you won't find yourself laughing. I'm usually a huge fan of Ford's, but this is one movie I would not watch again. I guess every actor has to have that one movie on their resume that they did just to collect a check. This sorry flop is Harrison's. The chemistry between the two "buddy cops" seemed very forced.

The best Buddy cop movie will always be Lethal Weapon, with Rush Hour coming in second. Rent those and leave this horrible movie on the shelves.


Rating:
Summary: Lackluster Harrison Ford Movie If Ever There Was One
Review: Harrison Ford is an exceptional actor and he has put his trademark stamp on so many great movies. Ford (or Ford's agent) knows how to pick a script... including "Star Wars", "Indian Jones", "The Fugitive", "Witness", "Air Force One", "Blade Runner", "Regarding Henry", "Patriot Games", "What Lies Beneath", etc. However, with that being said, most of Ford's movies from 1998-2003 have been less than stellar... "What Lies Beneath" (2000) is the lone exception. It all started with "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998), followed by "Random Hearts" (1999), "K-19" (2002) and now (2003) the sub par "Hollywood Homicide". The storyline is downright lame in this movie. Ford's character juggles a detective's badge while dabbling in real estate. The constant cell phone use (and ringing) was near maddening. While Ford was busting bad guys, his cell phone would ring and he'd go off on a tangent about the house he's trying to sell. Ford really looks his age in "Hollywood". Josh Hartnett's acting here is downright average... and his acting abilities are definitely in question as far as I'm concerned. Is he just another pretty face - or can he turn his charm into a real acting career (along the line of Brad Pitt)? So far, with the exception of "Blackhawk Down", I haven't seen much of anything even remotely close to "acting" from Hartnett. All the co-stars in "Hollywood Homicide" were severly under developed. Most of the lesser characters you only saw once or twice in the movie. Dwight Yoakam once again plays the balding bad guy. Lou Diamond Phillips plays the cop in a dress (all 3 minutes of screen time for Lou). Gladys Knight can sure sing, but can't act (thankfully her part was small). And who was Ford's love interest in this movie? She had MAN hands and was not matched well with Ford at all (she looked like a guy in some scenes). Overall - totally disappointed with this movie. I'd be willing to bet most Harrison Ford fans will be too. On the cover of this DVD, it says that Ebert & Roeper gave this movie "two thumbs up". I refuse to believe this - they couldn't have been watching the same movie I was. Rent before you buy.

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: Homicide's DOA
Review: Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett star in "Hollywood Homicide", an action comedy that has a lot to say about the sillieness of buddy-cop movies. Ford and Hartnett are partners assigned to investigate a nightclub massacre. The problem is that neither one of them really want to be cops; Ford has a real estate buissness on the side and Hartnett is an actor off duty. I am sorry to say that there are no stand out performances here, which is sorry to say considering the outstanding cast involoved. Ford and Hartnett are usually very good, but here they are just, well, blah. Lina Olin is just kind of there in a very rediculos subplot involving her psycic powers. Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovitch, Keith David, and Matrin Landau are all underused in their bit roles. The problem is that it wants to be a comedy, but it isn't very funny, too many cliches. It isn't very action packed, either. The only real action piece is at the end, but it is too long, and it just dosn't seem to have any punch to it. I was very disappointed, I am truelly sorry to say. If you can find it on TV, that would be best. All I can say in it's defense is that It's biggest problem is that it feels like no one was really trying, it is just a lazy movie all the way through. It's only defense is I have seen much worst.