- Actors: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood
- Directors: Ron Shelton
- Writers: Ron Shelton, Robert Souza
- Producers: Allegra Clegg, David V. Lester, Joe Roth, Lou Pitt, Robert Souza
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Language English, French
- Subtitles: English, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- DVD Release Date: 7 Oct 2003
- Run Time: 116 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000B00KB
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 151,476 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Harrison Ford lends his solid, perpetually disgruntled presence to Hollywood Homicide, an action comedy in which he's paired with the squinty eyes and peaches-and-cream complexion of Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down). Radical French film-maker Jean-Luc Godard would appreciate this complete deconstruction of the buddy-cop flick genre; basic cinematic elements (mismatched partners, a hard-ass superior riding them, arguments about who's going to drive, arguments about intuition vs. diligent detective work, the bad cop who killed Hartnett's father, etc.) have been scrambled and slapped together with no concern for coherence, making clear their innately artificial nature. Sex scenes and car chases come out of nowhere and disappear without consequence, providing arbitrary visual stimulus. During shoot-outs, it's impossible to tell who got killed or why, underscoring a basic doubt about the purpose of making movies like Hollywood Homicide. It's rare for a mainstream movie to be so daringly (if perhaps accidentally) avant-garde. --Bret Fetzer
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(2003/Columbia) NTSC, Englisch/F, 1989, 1.33:1, 2.40:1, 116 Min. Farbe. Regie: Ron Shelton. feat. Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett and Dwight Yoakam (2003/Columbia) NTSC, Englisch/F, 1989, 1.33:1, 2.40:1, 116 Min. Farbe. Regie: Ron Shelton. feat. Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett and Dwight Yoakam
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Hollywood Homicide is a very formulaic buddy cop movie, with an over complicated plot, only a few laughs, and coasting leads.
But, honestly, I enjoyed it far more than I probably should have. The opening is really quite bad, with dodgy "modern yoof" dialogue, and a suedo rap/hip hop scene. It takes a while for the storlyline to get going, and even then it's a confusing miss mash of scenes that don't seem to join together, and ends up with our two cops chasing after a villain we never even knew how they worked out it was him!
Still, with a side stories regarding secondary careers (Ford's cop is also a real estate agent, while Hartnett also plays a wannabe actor - oh the irony!) that are mildly amusing, they do tend to get in the way of the main storyline, and extend the running time longer than it should.
But it wasn't all bad. There were some amusing scenes - the interview room scene was funny, and a bizarre chase across, around and through a river also picks up a slightly dragging film.
Yet it is good to stick around, because come the final half hour, there is a pretty decent, action fuelled finale, involving a car chase and fight that, surprisingly, works around Ford's and Hartnett's easy, laid back relationship. The "That's it - I'll drive!" scene is an example of that.
It's not brilliant, it's far from perfect, but it will charm viewers. Remember, make a mine a cheeseburger...
Extras wise, there are a bunch of trailers and bios, and three featurettes. The making of is the most interesting, but the otehr two are dull. Especially LAPD Stories, which really doesn't have much to do with the film in the first place.
Format:DVD
All in all the story and plotline is very formula; there are good guys that are misunderstood and bad guys that are silly and scared. The good guys chase and chase and chase the bad guys. Will they catch the bad guys? Will the bad guys confess to unbelievable crimes? Or will just once the bad guys get away. Don't hold your breath.
There is an added wrinkle as both Detective Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his rookie partner Kasey Calden (Josh Hartnett) take care of outside interests while in pursuit.
Mean time it is fun watching this almost cartoon like execution, as they run past all the familiar landmarks out and about Los Angeles, California, USA:
Beverly Hills, Hollywood & Highland, Hollywood, Los Angeles Subway System, Mt. Olympus in Hollywood Hills, Pacific Palisades, Parker Center Police Headquarters -at 150 N. Los Angeles St., Parking Lot, L.A.P.D. Hollywood Station at 1358 Wilcox Ave., Santa Monica, Venice Canals, and Venice.
There is an added wrinkle as both Detective Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his rookie partner Kasey Calden (Josh Hartnett) take care of outside interests while in pursuit.
Mean time it is fun watching this almost cartoon like execution, as they run past all the familiar landmarks out and about Los Angeles, California, USA:
Beverly Hills, Hollywood & Highland, Hollywood, Los Angeles Subway System, Mt. Olympus in Hollywood Hills, Pacific Palisades, Parker Center Police Headquarters -at 150 N. Los Angeles St., Parking Lot, L.A.P.D. Hollywood Station at 1358 Wilcox Ave., Santa Monica, Venice Canals, and Venice.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
To me, Hollywood Homicide seems to satisfy most tastes and genres. It is an action, thriller, crime, comedy and romance. Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett work very well together in this film with Ford playing the veteran and Hartnett playing the rookie, which I suppose is the same in real life. In my own personal opinion, Harrison Ford has been hiding away for a while but he has come back with a great film
There are several hilarious scenes in this film, my favourite being when Galvin (Harrison Ford) and Calden (Josh Hartnett) are 'interviewed' by the internal affairs department. I laughed a LOT at that scence because of the way that the pair were not taking it seriously at all.
Hollywood Homicide also shows the audience all the trademarks of Los Angeles. This includes Hollywood (seen as the film is called Hollywood Homicide, this is pretty obvious), Venice, Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive. When I saw the scene in Venice and Rodeo Drive, I could see that it had not been manipulated or changed in any way, meaning that the scenery had not changed from real life. When I was in LA, the first thing I thought when I went to Venice was, 'this is where the chase was!'. If you watch the film or have seen it already, and have been to LA, you'll know exactly what i'm talking about.
Hollywood Homicide is also a genuine film, and is not trying to make anybody the hero of the film. Neither does it focus on one genre, as I said earlier, the film contains many different genres. I would generally recommend this film to anyone.
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