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Hollywood Homicide

In hollywood no one is who they want to be. A veteran police detective & his rookie partner are no exception. Aside from their hobby jobs they have to infiltrate the hip hop industry to solve a major murder case. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/28/2006 Starring: Harrison Ford Lena Olin Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Ron SheltonHarrison Ford lends his solid, perpetually disgruntled presence to Hollywood Homicide, an action comedy in which he’s paired with the squinty eyes and peaches-and-cream complexion of Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down, O). Radical French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard would appreciate this complete deconstruction of the buddy-cop flick genre; basic cinematic elements (mismatched partners, a hard-ass superior riding them, arguments about who’s going to drive, arguments about intuition vs. diligent detective work, the bad cop who killed Hartnett’s father, etc.) have been scrambled and slapped together with no concern for coherence, making clear their innately artificial nature. Sex scenes and car chases come out of nowhere and disappear without consequence, providing arbitrary visual stimulus. During shootouts, it’s impossible to tell who got killed or why, underscoring a basic doubt about the purpose of making movies like Hollywood Homicide. It’s rare for a mainstream movie to be so daringly (if perhaps accidentally) avant-garde. –Bret Fetzer

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars Drama and comedy just didn’t work
For some reason this movie may have tried a little too hard with the comedy. A got a few snickers here and there from Harrison Ford’s part-time Realtor gag and Josh Hartnett’s attempt at becoming an actor, but somehow those scenes were really reaching – for something (especially in the interrogation rooms with IAD).

I have a feeling that when the Distributor screened the final product with the Producer, Director, Editor, etc., they just said “Uhhh,okay.”…”It stars Harrison Ford; it’s got to be worth something!” I also have a feeling that at the Post-Production process the director may have winced at the ending scene as said “It’s a Crapshoot,” and then took a vacation.

This movie just didn’t work out right.

3 Stars Mixed Thoughts On Ths One
Hollywood Homicide isn’t a good film when you get right it down to it, nor is it a really bad one. Hollywood Homicide is a film that was butchered in the editing, script department and really lacks what it needed to be a hit in the summer time which is more action. The trailer pretty much gives away the plot which at some points in the movie goes haywire it seems like the studio was forcing Ron Shelton to give everything into the movie so it could be a big summer tent pole release but alas for a movie of this nature to be a big summer tent pole release in my opinion I would have changed a few things. Number one- replace the non acting Master P with the more rounded Mos Def (who can make any bad movie pretty enjoyable hence his work in Showtime). Number two – make the film R rated you can’t make a movie about Gangster rappers and not have profanity, I mean honestly how many ganster rappers do you know that release clean CD’S by choice ? As much sex as Hartnett was getting the film could have showed some T&A ! Number three – Give the very underrated Isiah Washingtion more screen time as the villain ! I think that version of Hollywood Homicide would have been good to release in the summer. Although Ford and Hartnett have good chemsitry the film that is made here would have been better suited as a winter or fall release. So like I said I still have mixed thoughts on this one I liked the film for Hartnett and Ford and the many cameo’s and pop culture refernces but the story line and lack of action upset me. I give the film ** stars.

4 Stars Very funny cop movie
I think Harrison Ford has a real effect on making this a funny

good good cop and bad bad cop movie.

As funny as a people grinding murder mystery movie with homicide detectives can be. All that is bad about Hollywood is

made fun of here in a low impact that you might miss if you weren’t paying attention.

The plot writing and dialog is excellent.

I really enjoyed this movie:

I met people very like these when I lived in LA.

4 Stars Funny look at police work and after hours
Hollywood Homicide This movie takes a light look at a Detective and his partner in a daily grind of solving crimes in L.A. and what they have to do after hours to keep thier lives afloat…Very good movie.

4 Stars Good Action Movie
Three actors that I really like: Ford, Hartnett, Olin. Action movie done in good taste. Some laughs. The good guys win in the end.

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