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Very disappointing...

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A Masterpiece!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The purpose of a movie is to entertain, nothing else. This one fails badly. The dialogue is terrible. The movie is slow. The one good scene has a character never in the movie again. I could give you examples of why this film never achieves it goal, which isn't what you might think from the opening, but that would waste your time as much as this movie. Spend two hours watching clouds instead.

It's not hard to see what attracted Harrison Ford to Hollywood Homicide, buddy cop movies if done well are usually successful, Josh Hartnett was on a role after 'Pearl Harbour', 'Black Hawk Down' and '40 days and 40 nights'. While Ford's last effort 'K-19 Widdowmaker' had flopped massively grossing only $65 million dollars World Wide off a $100 million dollar budget. You had to go back to the Robert Zemekis directed 'What Lies Beneath' with Michelle Pfeiffer in 2000 for his last hit. And in Hollywood 3 years can be a lifetime. The plot, which was ridiculous to follow at times. Two LAPD detectives played by Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett investigate the murder of an up and coming rap band. In his spare time Ford moonlights as an real estate agent, Hartnett as a yoga instructor, but he really wants to be an actor, an spends a lot of time reciting 'A Streetcar Named Desire'There are scenes of action, car chases (more like Smokey & The Bandit than Bullit) chases on foot and shoot outs. In between there was loving making and some sentimental soul searching before the predictable finaleLou Diamond Phillips pops up, as does Martin Landau, Eric Idle Smokey Robinson, Robert Wagner and Gladys Knight. Ford remains watchable, as always, but these are not two of his better hours.

Hollywood Homicide is well worth seeing. One could start with analyzing the title and end up with criticizing the driving, but are these really what make the audience like or dislike a movie? They are not, in my humble opinion. Remember that if your horizon of expectations is not met, this is reason enough to chew on what you have just watched. To me, this movie was unexpected. While others may want to call it a bad detective movie, I like to call it a lovely comedy, a parody of both Hollywood industry and the police world. While Josh Hartnett can be unexpected in many of his roles, Harrison Ford really outdid himself playing such a part. So people, if you want to unwind after a bad or tiresome day, do watch this one. It's underrated!

Maybe it's just me. Whenever I watch a movie under the genre "comedy", I always expect the movie to make me laugh like a moron. The problem with smart comedies is that they excel in being smart, but they are also extremely lame in triggering actual laughter. Sometimes a really smart joke is spoken by one of the characters, and by the time you realize that it is a smart joke and you find the humorous bit, the stain-power of the joke has already gone stale. For me, I merely smiled. In the crime-thriller aspect, although this movie was sufficient for people's thirst for thrills, I couldn't help but feel that the reason for the murdering and the choice of the murderer was a bit too lame, and somehow I feel that movies like the first Rush Hour and many crime movies derived from crime novels have done better. If the writers/directors/producers of the film kept the genre of the film as simply an action film and not anything else, then it might get better ratings. Summary? Great action film. Lame crime/comedy film, which might explain why it got "a 30% approval rating based on 155 critics' reviews" (wikipedia). PS. Harrison Ford's acting is still awesome