Hot Pursuit *½

Anne Fletcher directed this Action comedy. Watch Preview. Cast: John Carroll Lynch, Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Richard T. Jones, Rob Kazinsky. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, violence, language and some drug material. Running time is one hour and twenty-seven minutes.

An uptight and by-the-book cop (Reese Witherspoon) tries to protect the sexy and outgoing widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.

Unfortunately, the only positive thing I can say about this one is it's less than an hour-and-a-half long. That strikes me as a really missed opportunity since the two leads, especially Witherspoon, are capable of much better. The fundamental problem is this is basically action only, there's no witty dialogue to savor and laugh about later. And, action only gets tiresome way earlier than the end of this film. There are  also odd plot jumps that indicate to me the director had no idea how to get from scene A to scene B. While they made the film blessedly shorter, they were disconcerting. What laughter there is you'll find in the outtakes that are shown during the first credits.

There are outtakes once the credits begin but nothing else of importance once they stop. Screen size is unimportant. Theatres/Times.