Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon
Hot Pursuit
STARRING Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara, Robert Kazinsky DIRECTED BY Anne Fletcher PG-13, 1 HR., 27 MINS.
By Leah Greenblatt
| EW.COM May 15, 2015
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HAT’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.) Reese Witherspoon stars as Rose Cooper, a deskbound San Antonio cop with the mien of an anxious meerkat and the luck of a two-leaf clover. She can reel off every code in the precinct handbook, but her name has become a synonym for screwing up ever since she accidentally Tasered the local mayor’s son (as in “Aw, man, you just got Coopered!”). Sofia Vergara steers into the casting curve as Daniella Riva, a feisty
