Wrap your head around why this film cost 75 mil to make and you get an idea about it's issues. It's bloated. Best thing about 'Hollywood Homicide' is the pairing of Ford & Harnett. They are a lot of fun and have good on-screen chemistry which is odd to say when you learn after the fact they heavily disliked working with each other.
Four members of a popular rap group are brutally gunned down while performing in a nightclub. Sgt. Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his younger, less experienced partner K. C. Calden (Josh Harnett) are assigned the case. Joe moonlights as a real estate agent and K. C. is an aspiring actor and somewhat of a womanizer.
There's bits involving a physic, the slimy head of a record label, his dirtbag head of security amongst shootouts & chase scenes delivering the required action. The trope about new partners bonding and some tacked on backstory about a cop father who was gunned down in the line of duty. Plus an additional antagonist in a IA lieutenant. There's a ton of known faces filling out the cast. As is typical of director Ron Shelton, his actress wife Lolita Davidovich has a role.
'Hollywood Homicide' commits the ultimate deadly sin of a comedy - it isn't consistently funny. I liked the buddy cop pairing found here, but a lot of the best parts made it's way into a good trailer with a better tone than the actual movie.
Four members of a popular rap group are brutally gunned down while performing in a nightclub. Sgt. Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his younger, less experienced partner K. C. Calden (Josh Harnett) are assigned the case. Joe moonlights as a real estate agent and K. C. is an aspiring actor and somewhat of a womanizer.
There's bits involving a physic, the slimy head of a record label, his dirtbag head of security amongst shootouts & chase scenes delivering the required action. The trope about new partners bonding and some tacked on backstory about a cop father who was gunned down in the line of duty. Plus an additional antagonist in a IA lieutenant. There's a ton of known faces filling out the cast. As is typical of director Ron Shelton, his actress wife Lolita Davidovich has a role.
'Hollywood Homicide' commits the ultimate deadly sin of a comedy - it isn't consistently funny. I liked the buddy cop pairing found here, but a lot of the best parts made it's way into a good trailer with a better tone than the actual movie.