Movie Review: Hot Pursuit

Hot Pursuit stars Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon and is directed by Anne Fletcher. It was released in Australia on the 11th of June 2015.

Hot Pursuit stars Reese Witherspoon, as a by-the-book cop who has the legacy of her father bearing over her head. She is given the job of protecting Daniella (Sofia Vergara) who is the wife of an informant going into witness protection.  Both are polar opposites, which is where the comedy tries to come from.

This was a very dull comedy, from start to end. The script was very bad, and didn't offer much originality from any other movies of its kind. I swear there must be at least one of those "polar opposite turn buddies" comedies every year for the American summer season, and 90% of them fail. Reese Witherspoon plays what is essentailly Spock from Star Trek, someone who follows the rule book and knows every section of the law off by heart. There is nothing new about her character that is original or funny. Sofia Vergara is back in another comedy where she plays another Columbian woman where the same jokes are used to no efffect at all. Modern Family already squeezed whatever jokes they could make about her and her heritage, and this film offers no more insight into that. I find that many film makers seem to throw Sofia Vergara into the same boat of being the loud Columbian woman, and it's sad to not see her offer up anything else.

I am confident to say I did not laugh once this movie, and if I did, it may have been from laughing at other people laughing at this film. This film reminds me of an Adam Sandler movie - but worse. Cheap jokes are used, and they often retreat back to slapstick or bad physical comedy to try to win over audiences. How the movie progresses makes no sense either, such as how certain characters manage to find out information or the location of others. The script writers basically wanted to progress the script so they could offer up more cheap jokes, so looked over the fact that there was so many plot holes.

Now I know I shouldn't be hard of comedies, because they're comedies right? They're not Academy Award winning movies like 12 Years A Slave or The Departed. But that doesn't excuse the fact that this movie is absolutely TERRIBLE.

This movie gets a 1/2 Reon out of 5 Reons. I would suggest to never watch this film ever, not even if it was in a dollar bin somewhere, it's not worth any money and shouldn't be on anybody's shelf.