Hot Pursuit
Warner Bros. | Release Date: May 8, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
23
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireAngie ErrigoJul 28, 2015
It’s genial, with appealing stars and fair giggles. Read full review
60
The GuardianJordan HoffmanMay 6, 2015
I can’t believe just how dumb Hot Pursuit is. Moreover I can’t believe just how much I laughed. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeMay 6, 2015
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 full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 8, 2015
A mixture of mild pleasures and deep disappointments. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartMay 7, 2015
Witherspoon’s charge, Sofía Vergara as a recalcitrant witness in need of police protection, is an adept slapstick comic likewise hamstrung by director Anne Fletcher’s sluggish pacing, which reliably stays with a scene for three beats beyond the punch line. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMay 7, 2015
Hot Pursuit is about two women finding sisterly common ground despite ethnic, religious, philosophical, temperamental and/or phonetic differences. It also seems an inevitable stop on Hollywood’s perpetual recycling drive, which caters to an audience perfectly content with the creaky and familiar. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMay 7, 2015
What’s spanglish for déjà vu? There’s hardly a single moment in Hot Pursuit that won’t remind you of scenes you’ve seen at the multiplex a thousand times before. (The movie’s original title was Don’t Mess With Texas, probably because Thelma & Louise Ride the Pineapple Express All the Way to Jump Street — and They’ve Got Lethal Weapons, Y’all! was just too long.) Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMay 7, 2015
As a delivery system for a newly minted and reasonably engaging if not always laugh-out-loud comedy team — Reese Witherspoon and Sophie Vergara — Hot Pursuit works. Read full review
40
The DissolveKeith PhippsMay 6, 2015
One’s uptight. The other’s flamboyant. Put them together and… Well, not much happens, except the desperation Hot Pursuit brings to its attempts to wring laughs out of the contrast. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid EhrlichMay 6, 2015
This trite road-trip comedy can be so lazy that it squanders the goodwill of a premise that ought to be self-evident. Read full review
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