Harrison Ford lends his solid, perpetually disgruntled presence toHollywood 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 likeHollywood Homicide. It's rare for a mainstream movie to be so daringly (if perhaps accidentally) avant-garde.--Bret Fetzer
Harrison Ford&Josh Hartnett chase bad guys in Hollywood. Here is a film that when I saw the behind-the-scenes interviews on television that this film was filmed in Hollywood and that I would see some landmarks plus a proper name, Harrison Ford, was said makes a film I want to see. His sidekick being Josh Hartnett who I remember from Halloween: H20 (1998) and Pearl Harbor (2001). Lena Olin is also in this film who was in Fanny and Alexander (1983). Harrison Ford plays a real estate broker. Josh Hartnett plays a yoga instructor. But both are also Los Angeles detectives. They are called to investigate a shooting at a nightclub. Making cameo appearances: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Idle, Martin landau, Frank Sinatra jr., Robert Wagner, Johnny Grant, Smokey Robinson and Jennifer York from KTLA Channel 5 News. DVD gives you the choice of Wide-Screen and Full-Screen. After the release of this film, it was said officially that Harrison Ford will do the fourth Indiana Jones film (Raiders Of The Lost Ark [1981], Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [1984], Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1989]), to be released in 2006.ok movie/ nothing great Hollywood Homicide is a decent movie. nothing great.
plot is ok, predictable.
but good entertainment.
BUM RAP 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.
