Homicide the Movie

 

Homicide the movie 2000

• Director: Jean de Segonzac
• Seen by this director: Homicide Life on the Street, possibly other series
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Everybody from the series
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Daniel Baldwin – other series now and then
• Ned Beatty – something I’m sure
• Richard Belzer – He will never be anyone but John Munch for me
• Andre Braugher – The Mist
• Reed Diamond – Much Ado about Nothing, Good Night and Good Luck
• Giancarlo Esposito – Maze Runner, Breaking Bad, Rabbit Hole, Sherrybaby, Smoke, The Usual Suspects, Malcolm X, Night on Earth, Do the Right Thing, Desperately Seeking Susan
• Michelle Forbes – Hunger Games, Orphan Black
• Peter Gerety – Cymbeline, God’s Pocket, Public Enemies, The Wire, The War of the Worlds
• Isabel Hofman – various series
• Zeljko Ivanek – many
• Clark Johnson – always and ever Meldrick Lewis for me.
• Yaphet Kotto – Almost Blue, The Running Man, Alien, Live and Let Die
• Melissa Leo – Snowden, London Has Fallen, Prisoners, The Space Between, Welcome to the Rileys, Veronica Decides to Die, Frozen River
• Toni Lewis – The Wire
• Max Perlich – Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Darwin Awards, Blow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,  Feeling Minnesota, Beautiful Girls, Georgia, Drugstore Cowboy
• Jon Polito – several
• Kyle Secor – Veronica Mars

• Why? The series
• Seen: 24 September 2023                 

             As the series ends, Gee (Kotto) has just been promoted to captain. As the film starts, he is running for mayor, expected to win. At a rally, he is shot.

       The old gang gathers forces from near and far, even those off fly-fishing, teaching in a seminary, touristing in Europe, working in New York, still on the street. Even those who have died in episodes past are in the cast.

       It’s like a class reunion. Or a long re-run. Maybe they did it because the actors were waxing nostalgic. Or because somebody realised that somebody had allowed the series to be cheapened in the last two seasons.

       The film makers do the series justice, primarily thanks to Pembleton (Braugher) and Bayliss (Secor).

       For the film, and the whole series

 4 ½ * of 5