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Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Starring: Harrison Ford, Isaiah Washington, Josh Hartnett
  • Summary: Veteran detective Joe Gavilan (Ford) is on the biggest case of his career and saddled with a new partner, K.C. Calden (Hartnett), who can't quite decide between being a cop or an aspiring actor. (Sony)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 36
  2. Negative: 9 out of 36
  1. 75
    One of the pleasures of Hollywood Homicide is that it's more interested in its two goofy cops than in the murder plot; their dialogue redeems otherwise standard scenes.
  2. Though its ending feels protracted--especially the climactic chase--it kept me reasonably distracted.
  3. When the movie works, it gleefully skewers the clichés of the buddy cop genre... When it doesn't work, it's exactly what it purports to be lampooning--a lame, boring cop buddy movie.
  4. Souza and Shelton throw in all kinds of ridiculous devices they learned in second-year screenwriting class.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Negative: 8 out of 16
  1. GarethM.
    9
    It you look under the hood this is a clever, tripped out motor that is almost a spoof of the buddy buddy movie. Ford's most enjoybale film since Clear and Present Danger. Expand
  2. 3
    Hollywood Homicide isn't so much an awful comedy as it as an astonishingly dull buddy cop flick. Nothing feels natural, from the "quirky" jobs that the cops have on the side, to the "goofy" dialogue they have, to the "far-fetched" murder mystery. It's an incredibly forced farce. Expand
  3. FrankO.
    2
    One of the worst movies that I watched this year. What a waste of talent, time and money. Actors seemed to be going through the motions.

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