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Harrison Ford plays a Hollywood detective who also has a second job as a real estate agent. Josh Harnett plays his partner who also has a second job on the side as an yoga instructor, but what he really wants to be is an actor. The duo gets involved in a case involving some singer murdered at a local club. Along the way, there are all sorts of comical interchanges, some more hilarious than the Keystone Cops.

I had heard a lot of negative things about this movie before watching it, so I watched it rather reluctantly. However, I was quite surprised. Granted, the film doesn't fit into a typical drama and the plot isn't that original. However, it really does work and work well.

I think there are two reasons this film has been undeservedly panned. First of all, the vilians really aren't much of bad guys and are more like villians taken from an animated flick and blown up into a real person. Ford and Harnett's characters and many of those around them are fleshed out. However, the villians, who are so central to the plot, come off as being nothing more than cardboard cut-out bad guys. Had they been a little more interesting, then I think people would have enjoyed the movie more.

The other main reason I think the movie has gotten negative reviews is that the film was advertised as a action-comedy, but it's not an action-comedy. It's more of a dramatic-comedy with a little action innertwined. Of course, the film also takes place in Hollywood and perhaps it reminded people of how much they loath what goes on in Tinsletown.

Anyway, HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE is an underrated gem. It's definitely not for everyone, but if you have a quirky sense of humor and enjoy a comedy filled with drama and a little action, then you probably will enjoy it.

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.