Homicide: The Movie

2000

Action / Crime / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 2381 2.4K

baltimore, usa

Plot summary

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.

Director

Jean de Segonzac Photo
Jean de Segonzac

Top cast

Peter Gerety Photo
Peter Gerety as Stuart Gharty
Austin Pendleton Photo
Austin Pendleton as Dr. George Griscom
Giancarlo Esposito Photo
Giancarlo Esposito as Mike Giardello
Max Perlich Photo
Max Perlich as J.H. Brodie
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799.63 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 3
1.46 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by owen-watts 8 / 10

"Last One Out Is a Rotten Egg"

This fittingly idiosyncratic ending to the Homicide saga is the most densely interwoven fusion of continuity and narrative I've ever seen. Deeply rewarding for fans of the series and a solid final point for hours of gritty 90's storytelling mixed with strange contemporary alt rock songs (and whacky dated music video editing to match). Giancarlo Esposito features in the two best sequences ever put to screen: a manic dream sequence with a gleefully cartoonish Yaphet Kotto and a screeching guitar montage where he puts the boot into various people for no reason whilst Reed Diamond indifferently scoffs pizza. All series should end this way.
Reviewed by fleagles 9 / 10

A terrific coda for a terrific series

I became a fan of the TV series `Homicide: Life on the Street' late in the show's run, but became a fan very quickly. It was a cop show unlike any other: visually different in its use of hand-held cameras, taking the viewer everywhere, with its multiethnic and mutiracial cast and their varying and fascinating personalities, and that it covered all of the good and bad of a police department, including the corruption and personality clashes that bubble up to the surface. Homicide: The Movie, the reunion follow-up to the series, is as good as a made-for-television film can be. After Lt. Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now a candidate for mayor of Baltimore, is shot, the series' cast members are back to help find the killer. In addition, the cast members who left the force and those who died, also manage to have their place in the film. The intensity and fire that marked the series return, and the script bristles with the same fire that marked the series. All in all, a terrific TV movie.Vote: 9
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