The premise (an uptight rookie cop escorts an 'opposite', a glamorous Colombian drug informant, across America and they bicker but ultimately, after surviving much danger, become friends), while hardly original, should work, especially with the likeable presence of Reese Witherspoon as the cop and Sofia Vergara as the informant, but the comedy is so unsophisticated, the performances so dialled in, and the action set pieces so laboured and unremarkable (during a freeway chase, for example, a tour bus crashes through...witches hats, and after getting evicted from a nightclub sting operation, the cop wangles her way back into the building by...going through the door), the only thing worth watching is the outtakes which run as the credits roll - they show that Witherspoon and Vergara do in fact have chemistry and are likeable, but this has somehow been stripped from a tired final product.
★☆☆☆☆
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