Hollywood Homicide

Written 15 June 2003

Warning: This film review reveals some of the plot of the movie.

The previews make this movie look pretty good. They show action, humor, plot and Harrison Ford. In fact, the previews looked so good that I was actually looking forward to seeing this film. After all, anything with Harrison Ford can't be bad, can it?

I guess that even the best of the best actors must make a bad movie occasionally, and this movie is worse than bad - it really stinks. I've only walked out of a few movies in my life, and this is one of them.

Harrison plays a cop with lots of things on his mind. He's got three ex-wives, a second business as a real-estate agent and, apparently, someone in the police department who is holding a grudge and looking for revenge. His partner has just as many things going on - he teaches Yoga and wants to become an actor.

In fact, these two seem to do many different things all of the time - except entertain the audience. I found myself hoping that the good guys would be killed or something. That's how bad it was.

Most annoying was the cell phones. The characters kept getting phone calls totally unrelated to their duties throughout the movie. It was very annoying when time after time a conversation would be interrupted so that Harrison's character could take a call about his real estate deals.

I had no sympathy for any of the characters (good or bad), the acting was so poor as to be shameful, the plot was boring, uninteresting and, well, just plain silly, and the pacing was slow and wooden. There is nothing at all to recommend, absolutely nothing, unless you want to see one of Harrison's rare (to my knowledge only) bad performances in a bad movie. Don't even wait for the video - just avoid this junk.