Hot Pursuit 2015

Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: It's actually, actively worse than you think it's going to be. Read more

Wesley Morris, Grantland: The dueling accents are meant to be part of some mounting joke, in which each woman sounds like an idiot to the other. It's not funny. Neither is most of the movie, which throws these two at a wall of gags and hopes they stick. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: I'm a sucker for outtakes during end credits, even - maybe especially - when they're attached to subpar comedies like this one. Everyone was having such a hilarious time! I wish I could say the same! Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: I am tempted to say it's another sorry example of what women have to do to keep an acting career going today, when all the juicy roles go to men. Unfortunately they have only themselves to blame. They are both listed in the credits as executive producers. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara can't save this lazy, unfunny action-comedy. Read more

Katie Rife, AV Club: Witherspoon and Vergara are both experienced comedic actors with charisma to spare, and watching them pal around is a perfectly pleasant way to pass some time. But with material this uninspired, 87 minutes of riding shotgun is long enough. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Wastes the talents of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara as egregiously as one could possibly imagine, resorting to lame jokes, cliches and incompetent storytelling to pass the time. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: In the pro forma end-credit outtakes, we see the stars muff their lines, mug for the camera, and generally have a good time. It's nice that someone does. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Reese Witherspoon delivers a few minutes of superb physical humor in this otherwise worthless action comedy. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The only thing hot about "Hot Pursuit" is its scant 87-minute running time. And it still feels like four hours. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Isn't this the sort of nitwit comedy Reese Witherspoon wasn't going to have to make anymore after becoming a producer on the likes of Wild and Gone Girl? Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: So bad you'd think it was directed by the worst sort of male chauvinist director. Read more

Tony Hicks, San Jose Mercury News: "Hot Pursuit" isn't something you should pursue. Ever. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: A toothless and nearly laughless buddy comedy. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: For someone with a background in choreography, Fletcher has no idea of how to sell physical comedy. Characters stumble around and drop things but there's no grace to their clumsiness, no punchline at the end of their embarrassment. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The blame lies with a dopey script, director Anne Fletcher and a lazy Hollywood assumption that female buddy flicks should be as half-assed as their male counterparts. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: We are in the midst of a comedy boom, and within it an explosion of feminist and woman-driven humor, but the news has apparently not reached Warner Bros. headquarters. Read more

Gary Thompson, Philadelphia Inquirer: Short on laughs, even at 87 minutes. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There's hardly an area in which Hot Pursuit is not found lacking. Read more

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: "Hot Pursuit" features one of the worst and most forced performances of Reese Witherspoon's career, an irritating performance by Sofia Vergara(whom I love on 'Modern Family') and a seemingly endless parade of lazy and arbitrary plot twists and turns. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: A laugh could die of loneliness in this shrill, slapstick buddy farce. The proven comic gifts of Witherspoon and Vergara have gone MIA. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Clearly, the idea here was to follow in the flatfootsteps of "The Heat": Funny ladies do funny cop-movie business. But with all the overacting and downright YELLING, comedy crumbles under the sonic assault. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: In a pairing of Witherspoon and Vergara, you might expect Vergara to be the funny one. But the script has Witherspoon playing for laughs, and Vergara acting as straight man. The balance is off. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: "Hot Pursuit" feels like a comedy that forgot its comedian. Read more

Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The trailers for the Reese Witherspoon-Sofia Vergara comedy "Hot Pursuit" hint at a movie that's unfunny, insufferable and obvious. You can't say you weren't warned. Read more

Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail: It's a chase film, it's a buddy film, it's a ridiculous, loud and often offensive romp. Witherspoon's character is cornball and annoyingly adrenalized - what was she thinking? Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: If there's any sexist cliche or sitcom groaner missed by the guilty parties behind this cop-and-robber coupling, it's not for want of trying. Read more

Inkoo Kang, TheWrap: If you've ever wondered what an Adam Sandler film starring Reese Witherspoon would look like, "Hot Pursuit" is it. Read more

David Ehrlich, Time Out: One of them is short and the other one is Colombian -- that's pretty much all there is to this milquetoast buddy comedy that ought to have premiered directly on seat-back airplane televisions. Read more

Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun: Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara have great chemistry as a misfit comedy duo in the road movie Hot Pursuit. Unfortunately, they also have to strut their stuff while battling through a terrible screenplay with a hackneyed plot and dismal dialogue. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's ill-conceived, not funny, overbearing and not in any way worth watching. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: [Witherspoon] seems unafraid to cut loose, and she and Vergara make a terrific team. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: You could easily imagine these two in a sharper, edgier comedy. Maybe, if Hot Pursuit is a hit, the filmmakers can take a mulligan and reunite them for a faster, funnier sequel. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: There isn't one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality ... Read more

John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: While she can make static cinema as well as anybody in the boys club -- Hot Pursuit is solid evidence of that -- Ms. Fletcher also monkeys with the conventions enough to make one wonder what kind of mischief she could ultimately commit. Read more