Comedy about a cop protecting a witness from killers “is this week’s ‘Paul Blart,” according to the vast majority of reviews
Reese Witherspoon got an Oscar nomination for starring in “Wild” last year, but she’s not getting any love for “Hot Pursuit,” her new buddy comedy with “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara.
The PG-13 Warner Bros. release directed by Anne Fletcher (“The Proposal”) has a measly 8 percent approval rating from 81 critics counted on Rotten Tomatoes. That means only six of them could recommend it to their readers.
“The joyless and perfunctory ‘Hot Pursuit’ would be a black mark on anyone’s résumé, but it’s an especially disheartening one for Witherspoon at this point in her career,” TheWrap‘s Inkoo Kang wrote in her review. “We know she can do pretty much anything, yet here she is in an 87-minute bleating contest with Sofia Vergara, her looks disparaged by lazy comparisons to a ‘boy’ or a ‘lesbian,’ reciting words that aren’t so much ‘dialogue’ as mere natter to fill up the silence. If you’ve ever wondered what an Adam Sandler film starring Reese Witherspoon would look like, ‘Hot Pursuit’ is it.”
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