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Reese Witherspoon goes a mile-a-minute with a Texan drawl in an unfunny Hot Pursuit as Officer Cooper. Forgetting what made previous characters like Elle Woods and Tracy Flick so memorable, Witherspoon simply coasts here as the only female cop on the San Antonio police force. The key moment in her make-daddy-proud transformation comes when a slight dusting of cocaine causes her to lose her by-the-book grip on reality in favor of a tighter grip on a fishing pole because, as the drug settles in, she realizes that she may need to “catch” her own food in order to survive.
Crickets.
The pairing of Witherspoon and Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara could have easily worked but, when the comedy is as blatantly unfunny as using an animal carcus to escape a roadblock, you simply have nowhere but down to go. Directed by Anne Fletcher (Step Up, 27 Dresses), Hot Pursuit wastes the talent of its two leads in a story that spends the majority of its time looking for the comedy in all the wrong places.
These two ladies are indeed talented. Witherspoon can disappear into a role with total commitment. Vergara can stretch her Colombian accent to make throwaway lines very, very memorable and, yet, Fletcher targets the situation of two Dallas-bound women – who form an unlikely team to testify against a drug lord (played by Joaquin Cosio) while being chased by crooked cops - solely on their looks and pretty much bungles the rest in this witless mess that, in the end, begs us to not judge people by their looks.
Oy Vey! This movie single-handedly puts the current feminism movement in Hollywood back at least a decade.
Normally, I would argue – given that the film was produced by Witherspoon and executive produced by Vergara and directed by Fletcher – that this all-woman Hollywood production is something we should applaud. Unfortunately, the results are beyond mediocrity. Vergara is dismissed as too old. Witherspoon is saddled with masculine comparisons. Neither, if one is actually looking at the two leads, is accurate yet that’s where the movie spends its time. And, hell, if it wasn’t funny the first time then you sure the fuck aren’t going to be laughing about it by the seventh reminder. Hot Pursuit thinks differently.
Written by David Feeney and John Quaintance, Hot Pursuit gives modern audiences no reason at all to go the movies this weekend. It gives Hollywood; however, a good reason to shut down for good. Is there nothing better that could have been conceived here than bad jokes about menstruation and a wildly awkward make-out scene? I’ve sat in Health classes that were more engaged than this bullshit. And, yes, you are correct in assuming that I never laughed once. Not one time did anything in Hot Pursuit tickle my funny bone and usually, even in a latter-day Happy Madison production, there is SOMETHING I find worthy of a laugh.
Your money is better invested watching paint dry for 87-minutes than watching Hot Pursuit this weekend.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, violence, language and some drug material
Runtime: 870 mins
Director: Anne Fletcher
Writer: David Feeney, John Quaintance
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Hot Pursuit
Memorable Movie Quote: "She's a federal witness in my protective custody."
Distributor: Warner Bros
Official Site: https://www.facebook.com/HotPursuitMovie
Release Date: May 8, 2015
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: No details available.
Synopsis: An inept police officer must protect the widow of a drug dealer from criminals and dirty policemen.
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