Twenty years ago, this was a Harrison Ford movie I was excited to see in the movie theaters, me and my brother went to the movie theater to go see iconic Harrison Ford staring alongside Josh Hartnett as two cops solving a murder mystery. Hollywood Homicide is another Ron Shelton film I watched this year, even though yeah, I didn't expect wanting to watch White Men Can't Jump, though realizing Hollywood Homicide is officially twenty years old. I figured now is the time to go back and re-watch this buddy cop film. Though while watching the movie whole, I slowly began to realize that this really, wasn't as good as I remembered this movie to be, it's like going to your championship high school football team reunion then realizing how everyone of your teammates are such drunken slobs.
After music mogul Antoine Sartain's (Isaiah Washington) rappers are murdered, Sgt. Joe Gavilon (Harrison Ford) and police Detective K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett) start to investigate. Initially distracted -- Joe by his real estate transactions, Calden by his acting aspirations -- the partners pull together when internal affairs officer Bernie Macko (Bruce Greenwood) starts hounding Joe. The two men prove skilled at police work, but they'll also need help from Joe's psychic girlfriend (Lena Olin).
Twenty years ago, I'd watched this movie from start to finish because it was one of those simple buddy cop movies where it gets to the point there's a murder and the two men must solve the case. Moreover, the film had one of my heroes at the time Harrison Ford with an up-and-coming actor in Josh Hartnett and really you can't go wrong, can you? Well after years of not watching Hollywood Homicide moreover spending countless years watching movies furthermore studding each one closely and finally watching this film, this was like a slap in the face realizing that this was bad on so many levels. And it wasn't just the story, I mean the story's okay might need some tweaking in my mind, but the editing and translations but more importantly that the two stars in the movie didn't get along one another, I'm not lying when I said that both Ford and Hartnett didn't get along on set and shooting and it was said that neither of them didn't look at one another when it came to some of their dialogue, and really this was surprising when researching some of this moreover watching the film and thinking that these two did a decent job but also remembering that these two were at the MTV Movie Awards, presenting an award and Ford is just reciting his past movie lines but then "ooh, I can see that these two really didn't like each other". Even a lot of the movie transitions from scene to scene really didn't make a whole lot of sense because when you first start off the scene each of these men are at a target practice area and then begins the title sequence of the movie then we move on to the murder for which why was that scene necessary for many reasons it just doesn't fit at all. Even scenes with the Internal Affairs lead by Bruce Greenwood is really confusing because it's explained that Sartain's right hand that Greenwood's character is being paid to find some dirt on the two detectives, but in all honesty they never find anything to arrest the guys, once Greenwood finds out that Ford is boning his ex, that’s the main reason why they arrest Ford and Hartnett and that's not real good evidence in arresting them all their doing is just being childish. Moreover, once the two detectives find out the Greenwood is dirty, they really don't do anything about it until the ending of the film, for which why couldn't they have a scene where Ford blurts out that Greenwood is dirty or something other than Ford dry humping the window when he's being interrogated or something at least? Either way this is one of these movies. I sadly must admit that this was one of the worst movies Harrison Ford has done, and even Ford admits this was his worst film even explained he only did it for the money. Now after watching the Black Dahlia, I believe the real mystery is how the hell is Josh Hartnett able to get all the ladies because he boned Hillary Swank and ScarJo and this movie he bones his entire yoga class, which is beyond me to even understand. One of few movies I must admit the worst of Ford's movies other than the Force Awakens though in all fairness I kind of stop following Ford's career after 1997, because really there were some of those movies like What Lies Beneath where I can't accept him being a villain, oops sorry to spoil another Ford film. Though deep down am not sorry for my actions.
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