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Hollywood Homicide (2003)

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 112

Hollywood Homicide suffers from too many subplots and not enough laughs.

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 27

Hollywood Homicide suffers from too many subplots and not enough laughs.

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Further cementing 2003 as the year of Ron Shelton cop movies, the director continued his vacation from the sports genre with Hollywood Homicide, a police comedy that comes right on the heels of Shelton's Dark Blue, a decidedly grittier cop thriller. The film stars Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett as LAPD homicide detectives Joe Gavilan and K.C. Calden, two cops with bigger dreams. Gavilan moonlights as a real estate agent, while Calden teaches yoga and yearns for a career on the big screen. When

Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Ron Shelton, Robert Souza

Oct 7, 2003

$30.0M

Columbia Pictures

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All Critics (175) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (114) | DVD (25)

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 Source: New York Observer | Comment
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The surplus of character humor seems all the more desperate in view of the essentially humorless stars.

June 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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It's a great piece of mindful escapism.

June 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment
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A reasonably entertaining picture that nevertheless leaves you wondering -- what, exactly, did I just see?

June 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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A buddy film starring two people who, even as the closing credits roll, appear to have just met.

June 13, 2003 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Hollywood Homicide is about murder, all right: the wholesale slaughter of anything funny, original or even vaguely logical.

June 13, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Despite a talented cast, this movie doesn't work.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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 Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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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 | Comment

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

February 13, 2004 Comment
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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 | Comment
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