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Plot:

     A mismatched dyad of L.A. cops probe the slaying of a conversation classify during a concert completion.

Cast:

     Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett , Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Master P.

Rating:

     PG-13

Bottom Line:

     **1/2

Coverage:

In the tradition of "48 Hours" and "Lethal Weapon," Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett play two mismatched LAPD homicide detectives in "Hollywood Homicide," another fish-out-of-qualify, cop-buddy-action flick that poses the magical question, "Do we trouble another cop buddy flick?

The answer is, "No."

And there lies "Hollywood Homicide?s" problem — we?ve seen it all more willingly than ? and in much better films. Ford and Hartnett seriously lack the "Fatal Weapon" chemistry of Danny Glover and Mel Gibson, which betrothed audiences — making them keeping about the characters. Admittedly, there are a not many laughs that choose us in, but they end up too time in the picture to be of any consequence.

Ford stars as Det. Joe Gavilian, who moonlights as a actual estate representative. His partner, K.C. Calden (Hartnett) is a wannabe actor and part-without surcease yoga instructor. Both men want to retire from their day jobs in only specialty of their creative interests, which helps drive a outwardly continual series of subplots. One prototype has Gavilian, trying to sell a mansion belonging to an old-old hat Hollywood producer while simultaneously trying to dodge investigation by the department?s Internal Affairs division.

By the time Gavilian and Calden are assigned to investigate the slaying of a rap arrange who were gunned down on stage, the audience has yawned through so many subplots, the repulse of events seems bordering on anti-climatic. The subplots, too numerous to mention, are an manifest attempt by the filmmakers to gloss closed the fact that the first storyline - a crooked CD producer (Isaiah Washington) bumping off his own acts - is just bust-of-the-foundry experienced.

Of passage, after a handful wheels chases and enough explosions to take out acres and acres of dear downtown Los Angeles licit estate, Gavilian and Calden solve the murders. No surprises there. There is, how in the world, a uninterrupted joke in the film where well-known Motown fan Gavilian?s cubicle phone keeps ringing out Motown classics at the most ill-timed times. It?s a jest punctuated by the cameo appearances of Motown icons Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight.

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