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Funny, over the top comedy
Although I thought the previews did not look good enough to see this in the theater, I did rent it. No, it is not Oscar material. But it is funny in an over the top way. I liked the characters both Harrison Ford (a crusty seen everything cop who sells houses to make ends meet) and Josh Hartnett (a new age who teaches yoga on the side and really wants to act) play. Master P has a good part as a club owner who ends up buying a house from Harrison Ford's character. It is a good light comedy with a little action thrown in. Overall, not bad.

Another wannabe LETHAL WEAPON misses the mark
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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