Hot Pursuit (DVD REVIEW)
Hot
Pursuit
DVD
Review by Kam Williams
Witherspoon/Vergara Unlikely-Buddies Comedy Arrives on DVD
Vincente
Cortez (Joaquin Cosio) has orchestrated over a hundred hits as the
notorious kingpin of a drug cartel terrorizing Texas. However, he’s
always beaten the rap, because the prime witnesses invariably
disappear mysteriously before they have a chance to testify.
Therefore,
the authorities decide to take special precautions with the Rivas,
the Cortez confederates set to turn state’s evidence in the latest
case against him. But then, when the police escort arrives to place
them in the Witness Protection Program, the husband perishes in an
ambush, while his widow Daniella (Sofia Vergara) and a policewoman
(Reese Witherspoon) barely escape with their lives in a hail of
bullets.
As
the two drive away in the Rivas’ classic Cadillac convertible, they
figure out that they’ve been targeted not only by vicious mobsters
but by crooked cops to boot. So, with no one but each other to lean
on, the officer and outlaw grudgingly join forces to survive the
drive to a safe sanctuary in Dallas.
Of course, sharing space
proves easier said than done, given how they’re polar opposites in
almost every way. Daniella is a striking, statuesque chatterbox as
compared to Cooper’s relatively plain, diminutive and straitlaced
presence. Nevertheless, the pair gradually bond over the course of a
rollicking road trip where they have a close brush with death every
five miles or so.
Directed
by Anne Fletcher (The Proposal), Hot Pursuit is a mindless diversion
chock-full of the staples of the unlikely-buddies genre, like car
chases, and accidental drug use. Though the action romp fails to
break cinematic ground, it certainly provides enough laughs to
recommend, most coming courtesy of the over-enunciating,
larger-than-life Vergara at the expense of co-star Witherspoon in her
capacity as a straight man.
Sofia
successfully stakes her claim as the heir apparent of Brazilian
bombshell Carmen Miranda. All she needs now is a fruit-filled
sombrero.
Very
Good (3
stars)
Rated
PG-13 for
sexuality, profanity, violence and drug use
In
English and Spanish with subtitles
Running
time: 87 minutes
Distributor:
Warner Home Entertainment Group
Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack Extras: the Womance; Say What; Action like a Lady: Gag
Reel; and an alternate ending.
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the Hot Pursuit Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, visit:
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