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Hollywood Homicide (2003)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:10
Rotten:26
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Hollywood Homicide suffers from too many subplots and not enough laughs.
Theatrical Release:Jun 13, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $30,013,346
Synopsis: In Hollywood, when you’re number one with a bullet, they call in the cops. Revolution Studios presents Hollywood Homicide, a fast paced action comedy directed by Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, White... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Ron Shelton
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Reviews for Hollywood Homicide
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08/07/04
Top CriticThe trouble is that Mr. Shelton and Mr. Souza don't do enough with the material to make it dramatically compelling.
06/26/03
Top CriticThe surplus of character humor seems all the more desperate in view of the essentially humorless stars.
06/17/03
Top CriticA reasonably entertaining picture that nevertheless leaves you wondering -- what, exactly, did I just see?
06/14/03
Top CriticA buddy film starring two people who, even as the closing credits roll, appear to have just met.
06/13/03
Top CriticHollywood Homicide is about murder, all right: the wholesale slaughter of anything funny, original or even vaguely logical.
06/13/03
Top CriticBoth leads in Hollywood Homicide work multiple jobs, and wear themselves out in the process. So does a movie with such a generic title that it's a marvel no one has used it before.
06/13/03
Top CriticHollywood Homicide should have been a much stronger and funnier movie.
06/13/03
Top CriticIt's a movie an audience can settle comfortably into, and it pays off as it goes along.
06/13/03
Top CriticAction movies that show a real interest in characters and their quirks are so rare that you might be ready to forgive this one its sins of cliche and poky pacing.
06/13/03
Top CriticSometimes the laugh is there, sometimes it's a coin-flip, and sometimes it all feels like so much made-up filler.
06/13/03
Top CriticGlutted with car chases, hot tubs, yoga lessons, psychics, rap murders, glitzy locales and smirks, smirks, smirks, Hollywood Homicide is obviously supposed to be a rollicking good time. Instead it's sporadicly, mildly amusing formulaic mush.
06/13/03
Top CriticIt's Get Shorty, but not as agile.
06/13/03
Top CriticHollywood Homicide is one of the most lazily scripted, poorly structured, smugly stereotyped star vehicles in recent memory.
06/13/03
Top CriticThe opposite of L.A. Confidential, it's D.O.A. But it does have one good chase scene.
06/13/03
Top CriticIt's a humiliating comedown for Ford, and he looks creaky and grumpy, obviously aware that he is miscast and dreading every scene.
06/13/03
Top CriticThere's little action in this snail-paced bore, you'll need a high-powered magnifying glass to spot the comedy and the 'buddies' have about as much chemistry as a pair of wet socks.
06/13/03
Top CriticOne of the pleasures of Hollywood Homicide is that it's more interested in its two goofy cops than in the murder plot; their dialogue redeems otherwise standard scenes.
06/13/03
Top CriticHollywood Homicide thinks constantly ringing cell phones are really funny.
06/13/03
Top CriticLatest News for Hollywood Homicide
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June 06, 2003:
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