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Hollywood Homicide Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    47

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

    No one comes out of Hollywood Homicide looking good, but the film fades fast.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    An attempt to merge a semi-jokey buddy movie with a more realistic account of cops' messy private lives, Hollywood Homicide falls short on both counts.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    Somewhere within all of this there really is a homicide -- a hip-hop industry rub-out that may someday make this movie half of a passable DVD double feature with Nick Broomfield's documentary Biggie and Tupac.

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  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Is it, you know, fun? At times. Yet there's a rote quality to the way this half-dumb, half-sly movie resolves itself into an intentional debauch, a pileup of villainy and heavy metal. The only California dream it leaves you with is one of wretched excess.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dana Stevens

    He (Ford) slips into the role as if it were a pair of well-worn loafers, the left inherited from Peter Falk, the right from Clint Eastwood, and then proceeds, with wry nonchalance, to tap-dance, shuffle and pirouette through his loosest, wittiest performance in years.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Combines silly stuff about life in Los Angeles with buoyant energy, a couple of chases worthy of the Keystone Kops and quick-witted actors playing droll characters with obvious affection.

  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    One of the pleasures of Hollywood Homicide is that it's more interested in its two goofy cops than in the murder plot; their dialogue redeems otherwise standard scenes.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    At its best, "Hollywood" has the breezy irreverence and easy, sunny L.A. atmosphere of Shelton's 1992 "White Men Can't Jump," a buddy-buddy basketball-hustle movie.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Iffy for 14+

Despite a talented cast, this movie doesn't work.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the movie has some strong language and some sexual references and situations. K.C. has casual sex with several women, and Joe and a lady friend have a very sensual encounter. Characters drink; Joe drinks too much. There's a lot of action violence, some graphic, including a grisly autopsy scene in the morgue.

  • Families can talk about why so many people in this movie want to change their careers.

What to watch for
  • violence false5

    Violence: Murders for hire, shooting, car chases and explosions, grisly corpses.

  • sex false3

    Sex: Sexual situations and references.

  • language false3

    Language: Some strong language.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink, one to excess.

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by geoelevation25

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sufficient by the big cheese
Far from original but enjoyable non-the less

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