Movie Review for Hollywood Homicide

Summary: Veteran detective Joe Gavilan, a weary but tenacious police veteran at the top of his game professionally, though his personal life is rapidly unraveling. His partner, K.C. Calden, seems to be more interested in his side jobs as a yoga teacher and aspiring actor than in the high-profile gangland-style murder they are currently investigating. Welcome to the land of blue skies, palm trees and dead bodies.

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Lori Hoffman of Atlantic City Weekly (7/0)
            Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, are given enough character quirks to made this trip in cliché-vi...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            One of the pleasures of Hollywood Homicide is that it's more interested in its two goofy cops tha...

By David Sterritt of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            Despite its potentially rich material it's a quintessential summer movie.

By Jules Brenner of Cinema Signals (7/0)
            Intercutting life-endangering mayhem with negotiating a real estate deal may not be everyone's id...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            To take Hollywood Homicide at surface level is to miss the point, yet it may be far too bombastic...

By Steven D. Greydanus of Decent Films Guide (7/0)
            Not the worst cop-buddy movie of the year — that distinction goes to National Security —...

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By Boo Allen of Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (7/0)
            This should be embarrassing to everyone concerned, particulary Ron Shelton.

By Boo Allen of Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (7/0)
            This should be embarrassing to everyone concerned, particulary Ron Shelton.

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
            The filmmakers seem to be unsure of what they were trying to do here.

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            Ron Shelton, working from a script that he wrote with Robert Souza, has a trick up his sleeve; it...

By Eugene Novikov of Film Blather (7/0)
            The advertising suggests something primitive and formulaic, but Hollywood Homicide is sneaky, str...

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            Feels a great deal like a tired exhalation.

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Sean O'Connell of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            Shelton coerces a handful of noteworthy performances from his cast, but does nothing with his pai...

By Victoria Alexander of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
            Sluggish direction, bad writing, and Lolita Davidovich.

By Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
            Could have been the direction and/or editing putting forth freshmanlike efforts at comedy. Or, of...

By Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
            In the comedy department actor Harrison Ford comes across being about as funny as President Jerry...

By Bob Bloom of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
            Hollywood Homicide ... feels like three hours. Like (Harrison) Ford’s (Joe) Gavilan, it runs out ...

By James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/0)
            the best joke, unfortunately, comes at the very beginning of the film. The rest of 'Homicide' is ...

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
            Funny action comedy that pokes fun at cop detective buddy movies, the record business, New Age wa...

By Manohla Dargis of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
             No one comes out of Hollywood Homicide looking good, but the film fades fast.

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            I guess you can’t blame Ford for being bored during most of this, but it’s too bad the fact is so...

By Anton Bitel of Movie Gazette (7/0)
            ... in this lacklustre affair, even (Harrison) Ford manages to put in his most wooden performance...

By Marty Mapes of Movie Habit (7/0)
            It asks too much and offers too little

By Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (7/0)
            Enter Gladys Knight, esteemed R&B legend who belongs in front of the camera the way Ian McKellan ...

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By Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
            A smashing satire disguised as a generic buddy cop thriller.

By Jeanne Aufmuth of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
            Can’t a couple of hunky guys pull off the buddy dynamic with the sheer force of their masculine s...

By Dawn Taylor of Portland Tribune (7/0)
            ... a movie that doesn't have a plot so much as it has random events and characters thrown willy-...

By Tor Thorsen of Reel.com (7/0)
            Shelton's attempts to tweak the buddy-cop formula are admirable -- an anti-chase chase scene invo...

By Betty Jo Tucker of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Although Ford and Hartnett share some amusing moments as mismatched partners, that's not enough t...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            There are some laughs to be had here, but they are islands in a becalmed ocean.

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Forrest Hartman of Reno Gazette-Journal (7/0)
            This isn’t exactly brainy material but it is fun, and that’s what buddy comedies are all about.

By Joe Baltake of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
            Hollywood Homicide is one of those smooth formula jobs that always seems to attract the services ...

By Jim Judy of Screen It! (7/0)
            Despite a good cast, a few (and I mean just a few) amusing moments and some decent dialogue, it s...

By William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            Just one more achingly familiar, by-the-numbers buddy-cop movie, and not a particularly strong st...

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            This is the standard cop thang, down to every plot detail; the film's basically a spoof played de...

By Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
            A sly satire of buddy-cop action-comedies that replicates the genre's trappings so precicely many...

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            This movie gives 'Don't give up your day job' a whole new meaning - I hope someone told this to t...

By Audrey Rock-Richardson of Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) (7/0)
            How unique: two mismatched cops who roll their eyes at each other a lot because, gosh darn it: th...

By Mike Clark of USA Today (7/0)
            Both leads in Hollywood Homicide work multiple jobs, and wear themselves out in the process. So d...

By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            Like "Bull Durham," this is a shaggy-dog satire about seemingly casual but surprisingly vain men ...

By Emily Blunt of Blunt Review (3/4) No reference
            Stoo-pid

By Ross Brooks of Citysearch (3/4) No reference
            Nothing works -- the comedy is thin at best and the story is an embarrassment of cliches and plot...

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Robert Denerstein of Denver Rocky Mountain News (3/4) No reference
            You keep wanting Homicide to be funkier. Either that or make a more serious commitment to formula...

By Jeffrey Bruner of Des Moines Register (3/4) No reference
            The first action-parody of the buddy cop genre ... Director Ron Shelton takes all of the cop movi...

By Kevin Carr of Film Threat (3/4) No reference
            Hollywood Homicide tries to be a Lethal Weapon for a new generation -- without the likeable chara...

By Guylaine Cadorette of Hollywood.com (3/4) No reference
            Hollywood Homicide is such a mixed bag of genres that not even the high-profile stars, star-studd...

By Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
            To go into Hollywood Homicide expecting a serious cop film is to be greatly disappointed. As a mi...

By Marshall Fine of Journal News (Westchester, NY) (3/4) No reference
            A pile of action-movie clichés.

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By Robert W. Butler of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
            A cop/buddy movie so easygoing it's hardly there at all.

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (3/4) No reference
            Hollywood Homicide ought not to be as much fun as it is, but it is.

By Jami Bernard of New York Daily News (3/4) No reference
            It's a humiliating comedown for Ford, and he looks creaky and grumpy, obviously aware that he is ...

By John Anderson of Newsday (3/4) No reference
            Harrison Ford as comedian is not a pretty picture.

By Roger Moore of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            Shelton is too smart an observer to totally miss the mark. But after a career of cooking up yummy...

By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (3/4) No reference
            A sly and absurd satire of the action-movie formula that delivers deeper and more plentiful laugh...

                         Reviews of Hollywood Homicide
By David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
            Hollywood Homicide reeks from its slumming, cynical exploitation of Hollywood as a junky old tart...

By Erik Lundegaard of Seattle Times (3/4) No reference
            More interested in Hollywood than homicide.

By Josh Larsen of Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (3/4) No reference
            ...caught between being `Anonymous Police Movie 3,001' and an all-out spoof.

By Jonathan R. Perry of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (3/4) No reference
            As in last winter’s unfairly overlooked 'Dark Blue,' Ron Shelton lures us into his underground la...

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