Hot Pursuit

A rather strange film overall, even though nothing specifically strange happens, I suppose. Hot Pursuit starts off well enough, feeling like one of those relaxing, background-y 80s films most of us from the era like to throw on from time to time. But this feels more like one that time, and most people forgot. And it's understandable, as no matter how competently made this is overall, it's quite unremarkable an experience, and forgettable.

A good explanation for its inability to leave much of an impression is it doesn't know what it wants to be. While it doesn't divert too hard, towards the end it started becoming more of an action film, with big explosions and even some chase scene action. But that didn't feel like an extension somehow of where the film was headed. It feels like an abrupt change, made even more strange than it's reversing back to its original comedic vibe once the "action" died down. Uneven is a good word for it.

It's amusing enough, especially seeing Ben Stiller's debut film performance, along with his father Jerry Stiller who also plays a role. He's quite young, and the role itself is quite the opposite of what most are accustomed to seeing from Stiller. Luckily it's funny and not disturbing, but also a bit unfortunate it's perhaps the most amusing part of this film. Either that, or Robert Loggia portraying a "pirate."