Hollywood Homicide

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, and some sexuality

Starring Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett

            Harrison Ford is much funnier in “Hollywood Homicide” than he was in any other movie he has ever done (to be fair, most of his movies aren’t comedies.) Josh Hartnett has gone from war (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down) to comedy. He’s good at both. The two stars team up with each other to easily make one of the funniest movies so far this year.

            The two stars are detective partners in Hollywood, but also have extra jobs, since they don’t make much money. Ford, for instance, is also a realtor, and hasn’t made a sale in years. Hartnett is also a yoga instructor, and trying to be an actor, thus always reciting lines from “A Streetcar Named Desire.” But, when a murder/homicide happens in da club in Hollywood against a rap group who has split up, Hartnett and Ford are immediately assigned to the case. The case involves the studio manager whose singers were trying to break their contract. Obviously one executive went too far…

            Anyway, half of the film isn’t even spent with the murder, but more with Ford and Hartnett’s personal life. Surprises even happen with the death of Hartnett’s father many years ago and Ford’s longtime enemy, also in the Police business, are tied in with the homicide.

            It’s not things like the action in this film that make it great, but more of things like seeing the man who played Indiana Jones stealing a little girls pink bicycle and riding through traffic on it like a madman, chasing after the enemy. That’s not just humorous, it’s ridiculous. But somehow it brings a smile to everyone’s face in the theatre.