Though it makes a strong case for future collaborations between Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista, Stuber fails to mesh its contrasting genres, settling for an overtly violent, mildly entertaining diversion that's far from a five-star ride.
Ultimately, Stuber wants to explore our own notions of masculinity.... Which would all be well and good, maybe, if Stuber was actually funny.
Read full articleThis is a mismatched buddy and there's not a whole lot of laughs to be had.
Read full articleStuber is a lumbering, tired and dumb comedy, but if that's what you're looking for, then have at it.
Read full articleTalk about running on fumes. This buddy comedy traps two talented dudes - Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista - in a car that's going nowhere so fast that Thelma and Louise would hop right on.
Read full articleIf you're looking for a throwback to simpler, sillier times (with a dash of self-awareness about the state of toxic masculinity in 2019), it should just about satisfy.
Read full articleStuber is part of a breed of summer movies that I think of as "aggressively fine": They're not unwatchable, and you'll laugh sometimes, but they're also not very good, and there's no particular reason they couldn't be.
Read full articleWhat I can tell you is that Bautista and Nanjiani are comic gold together...
Read full articleStuber is a violent, predictable, underwhelming, and even plodding two-star ride.
Read full articleI think where it kind of falls apart is [with] the race jokes and stuff... I don't know that it's really connecting for the way they would like for it to.
Read full articleA competent action-comedy that never truly impresses on either front.
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