* out
of ****
Reese,
Reese, Reese. How did an actress that I enjoy so much end up in a
basted turkey like this? Blackmail? One too many favours owed?
Witchcraft? Because this movie is beneath the talents of an actress
of your talent, and far beneath the audience's willingness to watch.
Witherspoon
is Rose Cooper, a career cop with a large stick up her behind. Rules
and regulations make up the whole of her personality, as she was
raised by a super-cop father and she's trying to measure up. Due to
an early career mishap she has been stuck in the evidence room for
years, and her Captain (John Caroll Lynch) finally finds a case for
her to work. They need a female officer for the team that will
transport a drug informant and his wife to custody to testify at a
trial. Unfortunately, the drug informant's wife is Daniela (Sofia
Veraga), a shallow and pampered idiot that is more interested in
creature comforts than her own safety. After cartel killers take out
the husband and Rose' partner, she and Daniela are left to try to get
to safety alone.
That's
the summary. The script tries very hard to make the film a buddy
movie, a female version of “Midnight Run”. The only problems are
that the script is truly awful and the filmmaking is even worse.
Fights that look about as authentic as those in a high school play, dialogue
that could most kindly be described as “asinine”, and situations
that only tremendous idiots couldn't think their way out of pop up
again and again. Plot twists that can been seen miles away come
rapid fire and in general the whole thing just leaves you holding
your head so it doesn't explode.
I
really don't have much use for Vergara as an actress, but Witherspoon
is someone whose films I look forward to. Let's hope this dog of a
movie is a blip on the radar rather than the start of a trend.
Because it is simply terrible. Avoid it at all costs.
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