Hot Pursuit is 'obstructed in second gear' slow pith

Witherspoon plays Rose Cooper, associate degree tense cop tasked with protective Daniella Riva (Vergara), a horny and outgoing widow of a boss, from the gun-wielding mobsters WHO killed her husband and wish her dead.

But the mission to move Riva across TX to court, wherever she's to testify against the combine, is derailed by the shenanigans of a try of crooked cops, and also the ladies area unit forced to forge associate degree unlikely friendly relationship to survive.

Hot Pursuit
Sofia Vergara plays the wild card Daniella Riva to Reese Witherspoon's straight-laced Rose Cooper within the new comedy Hot Pursuit. (Warner Bros.)

Witherspoon's portrayal as a political candidate of the law is "a very little arduous to swallow," says CBC's film critic Eli Glasner, "[but]
it's nice to check the honor winning actor come back to her comedic roots."

Hot Pursuit is helmed by Anne Fletcher, an equivalent director behind Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand's lukewarm comedy The compunction.

Like that film, Hot Pursuit is "a road pic stuck in second," says Glasner, "gently ambling its thanks to a comedic conclusion."

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