Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
The screenplay has pages I imagine remain only half-filled. Not long after Heigl and Kutcher meet in an elevator, they share this exchange. She: "Huh-huh." He: "Huh." She: "Huuuuuh." This is the language of love for two people coming out of a coma.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Newsday
The mismatch isn't quite of Justin Bieber-Charlize Theron proportions, but Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play an oddly disjointed pair of lovers, partners and reluctant assassins in Killers.

Name : Rob Nelson / Alias : Variety
"Killers" has plenty to offer genre fans - provided they don't bolt during its opening scene of a tied-up woman being beaten to death with a mallet .

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Don't tell me I'm making too much out of nothing, because the steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Robert Luketic's bland action comedy focuses on the uninteresting relationship between its two bland main characters, and that's the deadliest thing in sight.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Kutcher and Heigl are unable to bring any warmth to what is at heart a bitter, cynical script. Just awful.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
There's nobody delivering the laughs in this arid action comedy.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Killers leaves Heigl and Kutcher to bicker over issues of trust and betrayal; being in danger causes more problems in their marriage than it resolves. Killers isn't an entertainment, it's a high-speed spat.

Name : Jason Anderson / Alias : Toronto Star
It's pretty much dead in the water as soon as a shirtless Kutcher tries to play suave and utters some terrible French in his first attempt to woo his co-star.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
Bungled rather than flat-out terrible.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Killers is a lifeless romantic action comedy that might as well have been concocted in a broken beaker, given the paucity of chemistry between the lead actors.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin wrote the script, whose plummeting one-liners leave no actor unscathed.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
There is a potentially rich satirical situation there, as everyone in the couple's dull planned community turn out to be undercover killers. But whatever germ of an idea there is, it's quickly killed by witless writing and migraine-inducing direction.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The audience is the real victim.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Is it some monstrosity of awfulness, as its lack of advance screening suggested? No, that would imply at least a spark of some kind. This is just an empty summer hodgepodge of stale romantic comedy exchanges, witlessness and lackluster action.

Name : Brian Miller / Alias : L.A. Weekly
If you count the number of hairstyles Katherine Heigl wears in this dreary romcom-with-guns, the tally is likely to be four or five. Ashton Kutcher's facial expressions, one.

Name : Boyd van Hoeij / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The characters' online connection allows the filmmakers, who here move away from the slasher genre to something approaching psychological horror, to explore violence as a mindset.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out New York
For someone so classically handsome, Kutcher is surprisingly anticharismatic as a star. A smarmy grin and looking good while shirtless does not equal screen presence, dude.

Name : Rob Nelson / Alias : Variety
Bullets fly and jokes land with a thud.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : At the Movies
This should be and could be a really fun and entertaining, silly movie and it isn't.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Haven't we seen the oh-my-gosh-my-spouse-is-secretly-an-assassin-but-you-know-a-nice-one routine once too often?

Name : Stephen Cole / Alias : Globe and Mail
Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton's up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
At a certain point, it actually becomes embarrassing to watch Heigl and Kutcher play at being in love.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
Do yourself a favor: Don't.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A movie that won't knock you out with originality but may charm you with its wit.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Rather than offer any insight into what it's like living in arguably the most remote section of New York City, the movie focuses its energy on forcing Phillips and Pearlman to re-enact Superbad.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A refreshingly old school coming-of-age comedy with just enough raunchiness, stoner humor and otherwise dubious behavior to divert movie audiences weaned on violated pies and superbad high jinks.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
You could easily imagine these two in a sharper, edgier comedy. Maybe, if Hot Pursuit is a hit, the filmmakers can take a mulligan and reunite them for a faster, funnier sequel.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
If you've ever wondered what an Adam Sandler film starring Reese Witherspoon would look like, "Hot Pursuit" is it.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
It's actually, actively worse than you think it's going to be.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In a pairing of Witherspoon and Vergara, you might expect Vergara to be the funny one. But the script has Witherspoon playing for laughs, and Vergara acting as straight man. The balance is off.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Wall Street Journal
While she can make static cinema as well as anybody in the boys club - Hot Pursuit is solid evidence of that - Ms. Fletcher also monkeys with the conventions enough to make one wonder what kind of mischief she could ultimately commit.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
There isn't one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality .

Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
Witherspoon and Vergara are both experienced comedic actors with charisma to spare, and watching them pal around is a perfectly pleasant way to pass some time. But with material this uninspired, 87 minutes of riding shotgun is long enough.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
The blame lies with a dopey script, director Anne Fletcher and a lazy Hollywood assumption that female buddy flicks should be as half-assed as their male counterparts.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
There's hardly an area in which Hot Pursuit is not found lacking.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
For someone with a background in choreography, Fletcher has no idea of how to sell physical comedy. Characters stumble around and drop things but there's no grace to their clumsiness, no punchline at the end of their embarrassment.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Isn't this the sort of nitwit comedy Reese Witherspoon wasn't going to have to make anymore after becoming a producer on the likes of Wild and Gone Girl?

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Wastes the talents of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara as egregiously as one could possibly imagine, resorting to lame jokes, cliches and incompetent storytelling to pass the time.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
One of them is short and the other one is Colombian - that's pretty much all there is to this milquetoast buddy comedy that ought to have premiered directly on seat-back airplane televisions.

Name : Gary Thompson / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Short on laughs, even at 87 minutes.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Clearly, the idea here was to follow in the flatfootsteps of "The Heat": Funny ladies do funny cop-movie business. But with all the overacting and downright YELLING, comedy crumbles under the sonic assault.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
If there's any sexist cliche or sitcom groaner missed by the guilty parties behind this cop-and-robber coupling, it's not for want of trying.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara can't save this lazy, unfunny action-comedy.

Name : Kevin C. Johnson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The trailers for the Reese Witherspoon-Sofia Vergara comedy "Hot Pursuit" hint at a movie that's unfunny, insufferable and obvious. You can't say you weren't warned.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
The only thing hot about "Hot Pursuit" is its scant 87-minute running time. And it still feels like four hours.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The dueling accents are meant to be part of some mounting joke, in which each woman sounds like an idiot to the other. It's not funny. Neither is most of the movie, which throws these two at a wall of gags and hopes they stick.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
So bad you'd think it was directed by the worst sort of male chauvinist director.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
"Hot Pursuit" feels like a comedy that forgot its comedian.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Reese Witherspoon delivers a few minutes of superb physical humor in this otherwise worthless action comedy.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
We are in the midst of a comedy boom, and within it an explosion of feminist and woman-driven humor, but the news has apparently not reached Warner Bros. headquarters.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
It's ill-conceived, not funny, overbearing and not in any way worth watching.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
[Witherspoon] seems unafraid to cut loose, and she and Vergara make a terrific team.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
A laugh could die of loneliness in this shrill, slapstick buddy farce. The proven comic gifts of Witherspoon and Vergara have gone MIA.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A toothless and nearly laughless buddy comedy.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
I'm a sucker for outtakes during end credits, even - maybe especially - when they're attached to subpar comedies like this one. Everyone was having such a hilarious time! I wish I could say the same!

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's a chase film, it's a buddy film, it's a ridiculous, loud and often offensive romp. Witherspoon's character is cornball and annoyingly adrenalized - what was she thinking?

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
In the pro forma end-credit outtakes, we see the stars muff their lines, mug for the camera, and generally have a good time. It's nice that someone does.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
"Hot Pursuit" isn't something you should pursue. Ever.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
I am tempted to say it's another sorry example of what women have to do to keep an acting career going today, when all the juicy roles go to men. Unfortunately they have only themselves to blame. They are both listed in the credits as executive producers.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Hot Pursuit" features one of the worst and most forced performances of Reese Witherspoon's career, an irritating performance by Sofia Vergara(whom I love on 'Modern Family') and a seemingly endless parade of lazy and arbitrary plot twists and turns.