Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
On Quartile, Hollywood Homicide scores 5.5/10 across five categories — strongest on Novelty (Above Average), weakest on Plot (Below Average).
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.