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hollywood homicide
It turns out that if you complain to enough coworkers about your stupid medical problems, eventually one of them will tell you you should go see a movie and get your mind off things. That is, one of them besides ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
artname, who can't be trusted because he just always thinks you should go see a movie.
Anyway, I mostly enjoyed Hollywood Homicide. The ads make it look like an action movie, and I suppose it is one, but it is curiously lazy about its detective-story plot. At one point this turns to apparent self-parody when a chase scene involves... a paddleboat.
What distracts it from the plot, though, is what I liked about it: The character sidetracks about Harrison Ford's real estate business and Josh Hartnett's nascent acting career. (Er, their characters', I mean.) I liked the way Ford turned an interrogation into a sales opportunity, and the way Hartnett made him rehearse lines with him in the car--the way these other aspects of their lives were woven into the ostensibly central cop story.
The problem is that the movie didn't really decide whether these things were little quirky character garnishes, or story elements in their own right. So it had too much of them to be the former (Ford brokering a deal during a mid-chase lull) and too little to be the satisfying as the latter.
I liked the little cameos--like Eric Idle as an arrogant celebrity, and Smokey Robinson as a cab driver. (Ford's character is a big Motown fan.) Also, and not a cameo: Lena Olin.
artname may be right--maybe you should always go see a movie.
artname, who can't be trusted because he just always thinks you should go see a movie.Anyway, I mostly enjoyed Hollywood Homicide. The ads make it look like an action movie, and I suppose it is one, but it is curiously lazy about its detective-story plot. At one point this turns to apparent self-parody when a chase scene involves... a paddleboat.
What distracts it from the plot, though, is what I liked about it: The character sidetracks about Harrison Ford's real estate business and Josh Hartnett's nascent acting career. (Er, their characters', I mean.) I liked the way Ford turned an interrogation into a sales opportunity, and the way Hartnett made him rehearse lines with him in the car--the way these other aspects of their lives were woven into the ostensibly central cop story.
The problem is that the movie didn't really decide whether these things were little quirky character garnishes, or story elements in their own right. So it had too much of them to be the former (Ford brokering a deal during a mid-chase lull) and too little to be the satisfying as the latter.
I liked the little cameos--like Eric Idle as an arrogant celebrity, and Smokey Robinson as a cab driver. (Ford's character is a big Motown fan.) Also, and not a cameo: Lena Olin.
artname may be right--maybe you should always go see a movie.