Absolutely Fantastic

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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!

Like the crusades, this movie was a "successful failure". It was a good thriller and comedy, even though it did not do very well in the box office. As a veteran to crime dramas, I know the best of the best. So I can say, that this movie was a partial "failure", but likely paved the way for other excellent crime dramas, such as the hit television series, "CSI: NY". "Hollywood Homicide" gave us an outline of what was going on for most of the movie, and had the most action scenes at the end. Most people likely misjudged the film because they did not stay to watch the last scenes.As I said before, as the movie went on, it got more amusing and funny. Such as the scene when Harrison Ford, and Josh Hartnett was being interrogated by Internal AffairsGreat actors, good plot(overall), and with a nice city(I'm biased towards L.A.), This movie gets 8 stars.

The story of two cops who would rather be in real estate full time and the other an aspiring actor desperately trying to get people to see him as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire."Ironically, the two are great police officers. Harrison Ford as the part-time real estate agent and Josh Harnett, as the cop-aspiring actor are quite appealing in this film. Lolita Davidovich is a tramp in the know and as a change of pace, Lena Olin delivers a comic performance as a funny seer.The last 15-20 minutes or so are phenomenal with a spectacular car chase scene through Beverly Hills. You know this is a comedy as no one gets killed in the mayhem.The ending scene where Harnett goes Stanley in a theater production, with everyone going wrong is hilarious at best.A pleasant change for Harrison Ford and it actually works to much of a degree.