Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is an LAPD officer moonlighting as a real-estate agent to make ends meet. K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett) is a fellow officer, sometimes masquerading as a yoga instructor to meet women, and harbouring some serious acting aspirations. As the two struggle to pursue their sideline businesses, they get .. Read more
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood |
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| Director | Ron Shelton |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is an LAPD officer moonlighting as a real-estate agent to make ends meet. K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett) is a fellow officer, sometimes masquerading as a yoga instructor to meet women, and harbouring some serious acting aspirations. As the two struggle to pursue their sideline businesses, they get called up to investigate the mysterious murder of a rap group called H20 Klick. As the duo track down the killers, plenty of laughs ensue as they both desperately attempt to sell their alternative careers to anyone that crosses their paths. Joe attempts to sell property to the nightclub owner where the shootings took place, and K.C. endlessly quotes movie dialogue in an attempt to brush up on his acting skills at the most inopportune moments. The action builds to a frantic finale involving some spectacular--and hilarious--car chases around the crime-strewn streets of Los Angeles.
Director Ron Shelton (BULL DURHAM) utilises some eccentric casting (Martin Landau and Master P both have cameo roles), a string of witty one-liners, and spectacular location shoots to tell this humorous tale. Ford and Hartnett make a convincing on-screen partnership, clearly enjoying their roles as mismatched cop buddies, and providing plenty of laughs among the often chaotic, action-packed sequences.
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Master P, Martin Landau, Lou Diamond Phillips, Gladys Knight, Eric Idle, Robert Wagner, Smokey Robinson, Frank Sinatra Jr. |
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| Director | Ron Shelton |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 51 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Cops & Robbers |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, Russian, Hungarian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 26 Jan 2004 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
There was a time when the name Harrison Ford above a movie title guaranteed a smash hit, but over the last few years Ford seems to have lost some of that old magic with flops such as K-19: the Widowmaker and Random Hearts taking some of the polish off the once golden boy. In the US, Hollywood Homicide continued the downwards trend, which is a pity, because it's a serviceable enough buddy movie. Ford plays a homicide detective who's busier moonlighting with his real-estate deals than solving crimes, while partner Josh Hartnett is an affable dimwit with a yen to take to the stage. The plot makes little sense, and it all degenerates into the inevitable car chase in the final act, but there's just enough wit in the script and chemistry between the likeable leads to offset much of the hoary genre's predictability.
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Having not read the 'critiques' before watching the film - I now find them bizarre!
This is a very good film: Action, a great deal of humour, and it reflects the irony of policing in Hollywood.
The humour in the film is intelligent; I would suggest that some did not enjoy the film, because the tear educing humour went right over there heads..
I think it would be an advantage to potential viewers, to watch the brief 'Making of Hollywood Homicide' extra, before the film itself. In that way it may shed some light.
To conclude I would say that I have not used my pause button so much - I could not stop laughing in some places. {its supposed to be funny that?s the point!!}
Truly, truly awful!! Harrison Ford must be going senile to have even contempleted appearing in this dross. Apart from the lame 'old cop/young cop buddy movie' sterotypical storyline, this movie does not seem to know whether it is a comedy or not. About halfway through, it changes from (poor) cop movie to (dire) farcial comedy -- HF commandeering a kids bicycle has to be one of the most embarrassing scenes ever. Do yourself a favour and don't rent this.
Here's something you may not know about Harrison Ford: in 1968 he was a struggling young actor (youngish - he was 26) when the French director Jacques Demy picked him to star in his first Hollywood movie, Model Shop. Demy was on a roll: his delightful musicals The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort were among the most popular films to emerge from the French new wave, not just in Europe, but in North America too. Ford had done a couple of bit roles in B movies and on TV,... Read more
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