Hollywood Homicide | | Cast : | Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington | | Director : | Ron Shelton | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 13, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | February 01, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Another wannabe LETHAL WEAPON misses the mark | Content
 | Indiana, say it isn't so? Please say that making films like "Hollywood Homicide" isn't what has become of Han Solo. Please.
It's hard watching screen legends tarnish their legacy. Marlon Brando tried his best to make everyone forget his earlier performances with repeated bombs like "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and now it seems that Harrison Ford is content on doing the same.
Ford is a homicide detective trying to make ends meet as he investigates the gangland style murder of a hip-hop group.
Forgive the glossing over the plot. Just trying to follow the film's example.
After all, the reason for this film is not the plot, it's to see Ford and co-star Josh Hartnett take their turn at the buddy comedy flick.
While shows like CSI making cops look like the smartest, wittiest people on the planet, director Ron Shelton (the force behind "Bull Durham" and "White Men Can't Jump") decides to play his detectives a little differently.
K.C. (Hartnett "Pearl Harbor") doubts whether or not he wants to remain an officer or chase his dream of becoming an actor. K.C.'s also a yoga instructor who is only teaching the class for the slew of 20-something year old would-be actresses who attend the class.
While his partner has a rotating lineup for his bedmate, Joe Gavilan (Ford) is enjoying his three-week anniversary with Ruby, (Lena Olin from "Alias") a radio psychic.
The film's walking joke (it starts off as a running joke, but it gets used so much it had to slow its pace to a walk) is that Gavilan is also selling real estate and buyers and sellers keep calling him at the wrong time trying to close deals. It's good for a few chuckles early on, but it becomes too much a crutch joke after a while to remain humorous.
In chasing a suspect, our low-rent Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker pursue him around a duck pond. The suspect paddles with his hand on a paddleboat while K.C. runs around the lake telling him to step away from the duck waste. My, how clever.
This truly is the film's defining moment. But that definition could read "Hollywood Homicide" - n. 1. Seriously unfunny buddy flick 2. Yet another would be Lethal Weapon 3. Last call of Harrison Ford's movie career.
With the film's comedy component dying on the respirator, the dramatic aspect doesn't fare any better either. K.C.'s father was killed in the line of duty and there was suspicion that his partner may have had something to do with it.
Just so the audience can understand everything, K.C. kindly explains to his partner of four months that the investigation was closed before anything was discovered.
Matter-of-factly, Joe offers to call on some favors and learn what happened on the case. That's not the kind of conversation that happens oh, say, on the first month?
Dollars to donuts (pun intended) that K.C.'s father's partner is running around involved in the criminal shenanigans. Whatever were the odds?
Bruce Greenwood ("Double Jeopardy") gets a thankless role as an Internal Affairs officer intent on bringing Joe down for humiliating him years ago. It's another needless subplot in a movie so wrapped up with creating new subplots that the whole point of the movie doesn't get addressed until three-fourths of the way.
Shockingly (gasp) all of these cliché puzzle pieces fit exactly into place. As K.C. pieces everything together, there strangely was no "well duh!" subtitle at the bottom of the screen.
Speaking of thankless roles, Isaiah Washington ("Romeo Must Die") gets typecast once again as the bad guy and gets to be quite menacing until he gets into a slugfest with Ford.
Washington is a talented actor desperately need of better material.
Clearly, there's some sort of an attempt to mimic the cop buddy-flick feel of "Lethal Weapon" here, but even at the series' most outrageous, there was a modicum of common sense. Imagine if you will, instead of having the younger and more unbalanced Mel Gibson chasing after the bad guy, his older, veteran partner Danny Glover is going after them. Granted, Ford is a much bigger star than Hartnett likely will ever be so it's understandable that he's treated like the big gun. But Ford barely looks like he could run two blocks, let alone maintain a citywide chase without passing out. Age takes its toll on even the Blade Runner.
If only this movie would go as fast...
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| Rating | | | Date | February 26, 2005 | | Summary | powerful among many things | Content
| 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 |
| Rating | | | Date | February 22, 2005 | | Summary | What was Harrison thinking | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 04, 2005 | | Summary | This movie has its moments | Content
| 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 | | | Date | November 20, 2004 | | Summary | Flatliner | Content
| 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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