Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.
Hollywood Homicide is a middling buddy-cop comedy that tries to distinguish itself by placing its detectives in the glitzy world of LA entertainment, with both leads moonlighting in unrelated careers. The premise has some novelty — the meta-Hollywood setting and the concept of reluctant cops yearning for other lives give it a slightly distinctive identity — but the execution is largely slack. Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett have limited chemistry, and the plot meanders between half-hearted mystery and comedy without fully committing to either. The cinematography is functional but unremarkable, capturing LA without much visual flair. The ending resolves predictably and without much payoff. Ultimately a forgettable mid-tier studio product that squanders its premise.