Hollywood Homicide (2003)

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The trouble is that Mr. Shelton and Mr. Souza don't do enough with the material to make it dramatically compelling.

June 26, 2003 Full Review

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

The surplus of character humor seems all the more desperate in view of the essentially humorless stars.

June 17, 2003 Full Review

J. Hoberman

Village Voice

Top Critic

It's a great piece of mindful escapism.

June 16, 2003 Full Review

David Edelstein

Slate

Top Critic

A reasonably entertaining picture that nevertheless leaves you wondering -- what, exactly, did I just see?

June 14, 2003 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

A buddy film starring two people who, even as the closing credits roll, appear to have just met.

June 13, 2003 Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

Hollywood Homicide is about murder, all right: the wholesale slaughter of anything funny, original or even vaguely logical.

June 13, 2003

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Despite a talented cast, this movie doesn't work.

December 24, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

This is going to go down as one of the lesser films in the portfolios of Shelton, Ford, and most everyone else involved.

September 17, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

My guess is Shelton and fellow writer Robert Souza borrowed an idea from TV's improvisational 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'

October 14, 2004 Full Review

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

Harrison Ford ainda sabe fazer graça. Pena que o diretor Ron Shelton e o roteiro não saibam.

February 13, 2004

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, are given enough character quirks to made this trip in cliché-ville more enjoyable than most.

February 13, 2004 Full Review

Lori Hoffman

Atlantic City Weekly

• 1. Joe Gavilan: Commingling funds, huh? That's my crime? Commingling? Guilty. My alimony number one comes from money commingled with my beer money. My refinanced car commingled with the short-term loan to keep the second mortgage paid off, commingled with my alimony number three, commingled with every goddamn dime I've got tied up in my Mt. Olympus property. My whole life's commingled.
  – Submitted by Jerod B (6 months ago)
• 1. K.C. Calden: I don't think I want to be a cop anymore.
  2. Joe Gavilan: Then what do you want to be?
  3. K.C. Calden: I want to be an actor.
  4. Joe Gavilan: [shrugs] You're gay. I can deal with that.
  – Submitted by Jerod B (6 months ago)
• 1. K.C. Calden: How did you find me?
  2. Joe Gavilan: I'm psychic.
  3. K.C. Calden: [amazed] Really?
  4. Joe Gavilan: No, not really. I'm a detective for Pete's sake.
  – Submitted by Jerod B (6 months ago)
• 1. Joe Gavilan: Looks like we're gonna be here a while. Let's get going on some chow.
  2. Joe Gavilan: [to Cop] Cheeseburger, well done. Onion, pickle, ketchup, no mayonnaise and no rabbit's foot. O.K.?
  3. K.C. Calden: I'll have the same.
  – Submitted by Jerod B (6 months ago)
• 1. Joe Gavilan: Yes, Yes, I do understand the rights you just explained to me. But you know what? I don't like to remain silent, and I do not need an attorney because this is all BULLSHIT! [looks out two-way mirror]
  2. Joe Gavilan: AND YOU CAN PUT THAT ON THE RECORD!
  – Submitted by Jerod B (6 months ago)
• 1. Joe Gavilan: Hey, you. Come here. I see mayonnaise. Did anybody in this hear me say the word 'Mayonnaise'? Read your notes. What does it say? 'Cheeseburger, well done. Raw onion, ketchup, pickle'. You call that well done? In addition to the mayonnaise, I see lettuce... Lettuce that somebody tried to scrape off here. This is a disaster. What the hell do they teach you at the Academy anyway? You wanna be a detective when you grow up?
  2. Cheeseburger Cop: Yes, sir.
  3. Joe Gavilan: Don't call me 'sir!' I work for a living. Dump this for me please. I expect better.
  – Submitted by Jerod B (6 months ago)

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