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Homicide: The Movie

PG-13

2000

1 hr. 36 min.

Drama

List

86%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

74%

1,000+ Ratings

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In this film based on the popular television series, members of the Baltimore Police Department must resolve the attempted murder of Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), their former commander who is trying his hand at mayoral politics. Old partners are reunited, but not without conflict. Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) try to find reasons for the shooting that put Giordello in a coma. However, Bayliss has been repressing angst, which inevitably comes to the surface.

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I love Homicide and many of the greatest episodes of Homicide could have easily stood up on their own as a feature length film...not sure this is one though. It's a kind of cringey 'we're getting the band back together' storyline to investigate an assassination attempt on G (running as Mayor). There's also some clunky near-to-death hallucinations and some pointless reveals, it all just doesn't really hang together. I enjoy spending time with these characters again but they deserve better than this.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Fantastic wrap up to a phenomenal show.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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(spoiler alert) gunman shoots a politician, politician ends up in surgery, gunman appears again and discharges an entire round into the surgeons but fails to put even one into the targeted politician. That was enough to put me off the movie; that and the poor acting on behalf of half the cast. Porting this series to a movie just didn't work.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Starts off really well. The hyperspeed, quick witted, back and forth dialogue is brilliant. The detective work/police procedural is alot of fun, Macy and Mantegna are joyous when they share the screen. But the film never recovers when it establishes the Jewish conspiracy theory storyline/s. Some of it has some wit to it but most of it comes off as hokey.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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what a crappy ending to a great show. it was nice to see old faces from previous seasons but the writing was just shabby. even andre braugher couldn't save it.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Bizarre. Eccentric. Peculiar. Yet...fascinating. Another very unique take on directing actors and striving for real life performances.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Jean de Segonzac

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Andre Braugher

Frank Pembleton

Richard Belzer

Det. John Munch

Daniel Baldwin

Beau Felton

Ned Beatty

Det. Stanley "The Big Man" Bolander

Reed Diamond

Mike Kellerman

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Synopsis

In this film based on the popular television series, members of the Baltimore Police Department must resolve the attempted murder of Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), their former commander who is trying his hand at mayoral politics. Old partners are reunited, but not without conflict. Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) try to find reasons for the shooting that put Giordello in a coma. However, Bayliss has been repressing angst, which inevitably comes to the surface.

Director: Jean de Segonzac
Executive Producer: Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, Jim Finnerty
Screenwriter: Tom Fontana, Eric Overmeyer, James Yoshimura
Rating: PG-13, TV-14
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English