Hollywood Cops (2003)

Hollywood Cops: Directed by Ron Shelton. With Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood. Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.

“No urban police department is free of episodic troubles but the LAPD has a case as chronic as smokersu0026#39; cough. Good cops, bad cops and villains with SOCAL written all over their faces and inflected in every line.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut, hey, itu0026#39;s summer and Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett deliver some good laughs and a pretty hot high speed smash u0026#39;em up chase through Hollywood in this cop/buddies film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe genre is pretty familiar to all. Very formulaic. You get a wiser older cop with flaws and/or attitude and a young acolyte with flaws and/or attitude. The novelty here is that while many cops moonlight to pay their bills, Fordu0026#39;s a detective who doesnu0026#39;t let hot police work interfere with his on and off real estate brokerage business. With incessant calls for his private business on a cell phone that rings with u0026quot;My Girl,u0026quot; Ford delivers a good performance with wry humor and a surprising degree of athleticism (heu0026#39;s sixty but youu0026#39;d never know it). u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJosh Hartnett, as the very junior homicide investigator, also has a sideline, actually two. He earnestly pursues an acting career while running a meditation mill for lissome young lovelies who, predictably, fall into his arms and bed. But heu0026#39;s a good cop.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe actual homicide story is instantly familiar and its development devoid of surprises. So what? Itu0026#39;s summer! I canu0026#39;t see art films EVERY day.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e6/10. Canu0026#39;t give it more than that but it was entertaining for both me and my teenage son who especially appreciated the urban road rampage.”