Joe Gavilian is a veteran, grumpy old police officer that has been working in the LAPD homicide department for decades. K.C. Calden is his new brash, young partner that really doesn’t want to be a detective anymore or part of the police force. Both do have something in common besides being homicide detectives and that is they both moonlight in other careers, Joe as a real estate agent and KC as a yoga instructor and a wannabe actor. Sometimes these alternate careers disrupt their police work as they try and balance both and each other. But there has been a major homicide committed and they are sent to investigate the slaying of a rap group on stage. The issues are murky, as the hit may have been possibly orchestrated by Sartain a notorious rap label boss who is rumored to have arranged the death of his rap artists in the past when they wanted to get out of their contracts and spent prison time for not being totally honest about his finances. But that’s not Joe’s only problem as he now has the head of internal affairs that hates him breathing down his neck for some of his own fishy moneymaking and income. So now Joe fines himself with little time to solve the case before he has IA bust him as he must prove his innocence, solve a crime, deal with a young partner, and battle everyone from the IA to a an ex LAPD officer who might now be gunning for him.

I have trouble seeing how they could have ever made this movie work. I don’t think it was the actors, or a script that looked to be a rewrite of a 100 different movies done before it, or the fact that the movie seemed to lack suspense of any kind, I think it was a little bit of everything rolled into one. Harrison Ford who can be a great actor and who has some of the most unforgettable characters of all time just seemed to walk through this movie not caring that he was making a very sub par movie that just had no panache or would not really keep the audience interested. Him and Josh Hartnett had absolutely no on screen chemistry and just did not seem to fit together, which makes you wonder of they were going for a buddy cop movie and juts failed miserably or was the disaster on purpose. The script had no originality as it has been done so many times before you just got lulled into boredom. The final action sequence that must have been one of the longest chases in movie history ever was silly, trite, and had no suspense whatsoever. The movie had some funny one liners and a few moments of comedy but that’s it just a few and far between. The movie is billed as action/adventure which it had very little of, and comedy which it was also lacking. This might be an OK movie to rent on a boring night or it might have made a good straight to video movie but it was a waste of time in the theatres.
2 stars out of 5