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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekHot Pursuit is a quiet triumph of tone and timing. Nearly every scene is cut at just the right point, often topped off with a fantastic kicker of dialogue.
- 60The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanI can’t believe just how dumb Hot Pursuit is. Moreover I can’t believe just how much I laughed.
- 40Time OutDavid EhrlichTime OutDavid EhrlichThis trite road-trip comedy can be so lazy that it squanders the goodwill of a premise that ought to be self-evident.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreCheap, short and slow, Hot Pursuit is a comedy that never lets your forget that pairing up Sofia Vergara with Reese Witherspoon should have worked better than this.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe film is essentially nothing but little and ineffectual bits of recycled shtick with no sense of freshness of invention. And the women never bond in even the most rote or superficial way that's expected in this sort of claptrap.
- 30VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerA few mildly tone-deaf jokes are hardly enough to sink Hot Pursuit. What does, however, is its tendency to belabor the laziest, most obvious gags beyond the point of reason.
- 30Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonAlthough Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara do have their fleetingly amusing moments, this road-trip buddy comedy feels like it rolled off the cliché assembly line, offering wan laughs and familiar setups.
- 25HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyIt would be a lot easier to give the film a soft pass if it wasn't so aggressively lazy.
- 20TheWrapInkoo KangTheWrapInkoo KangThe 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.