Hollywood Homicide

Hollywood Homicide

Harrison Ford lends his solid, perpetually disgruntled presence to Hollywood Homicide, an action comedy in which he's paired with the squinty eyes and peaches-and-cream complexion of Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down, O). Radical French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard would appreciate this complete deconstruction of the buddy-cop flick genre; basic cinematic elements (mismatched partners, a hard-ass superior riding them, arguments about who's going to drive, arguments about intuition vs. diligent detective work, the bad cop who killed Hartnett's father, etc.) have been scrambled and slapped together with no concern for coherence, making clear their innately artificial nature. Sex scenes and car chases come out of nowhere and disappear without consequence, providing arbitrary visual stimulus. During shootouts, it's impossible to tell who got killed or why, underscoring a basic doubt about the purpose of making movies like Hollywood Homicide. It's rare for a mainstream movie to be so daringly (if perhaps accidentally) avant-garde. --Bret Fetzer

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
30%
PG-13
Year:
2003
116
$30,013,346
Website
811 Views

Hank the Bartender:
[hands them their drinks] The doctor's in. Help is on its way.

K.C.:
Thanks, Hank. [sighs] Something wrong, Joe?

Joe:
What do ya mean, "Something wrong?"

K.C.:
You seem down.

Joe:
Down? Me?

K.C.:
Lately. Yeah.

Joe:
We've been partners for what, four months, and now you wanna be my shrink?

K.C.:
Sometimes it helps to talk. That's all I'm saying. [drinks his beer]

Joe:
All right. Let me paint you a picture. Portrait of Joe Gavilan. Seven, eight years ago, I sold off the results of my entrepreneurial efforts up to that point: Three tanning salons and two original silk-tip nail parlors in the Antelope Valley, and I started attending weekend Real Estate seminars at the Airport Hyatt. You know, "How to Make $1 Million in Real Estate with Very Little Money Down."

K.C.:
Sounds good.

Joe:
Started out with a condo in Sherman Oaks. Slapped some paint on the walls. Refaced the kitchen cabinets. Traded up to a smoke-damaged ranch in Tarzana, then a Spanish on Outpost, and a fake Mediterranean in Los Feliz. Pretty soon, I had everything I've got tied up in this... this monstrosity... on Mt. Olympus, at the corner of Hercules and, I sh*t you not, Achilles.

K.C.:
So what's the problem?

Joe:
The problem is if I don't score a big commission or get rid of this... piece of sh*t on Mt. Olympus... well, the word *Titanic* comes to mind.

K.C.:
Joe, I know a girl who works for some rich producer. Says he might sell his place. Maybe you can get the listing.

Joe:
Got a name?

K.C.:
Well, her name's like Minnie or Moma. Or something like that, I don't remember.

Joe:
Not the girl, hot rocks, the producer.

K.C.:
Oh, I don't know the producer. Way before my time, I...


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