Stuber

2019 Directed by Michael Dowse

Saving the Day Takes a Pair.

After crashing his car, a cop who's recovering from eye surgery recruits an Uber driver to help him catch a heroin dealer. The mismatched pair soon find themselves in for a wild day of stakeouts and shootouts as they encounter the city's seedy side.

Kumail Nanjiani Dave Bautista Mira Sorvino Natalie Morales Iko Uwais Betty Gilpin Karen Gillan Jimmy Tatro Steve Howey Rene Moran Amin Joseph Christine Horn Trevor Shand Jared Logan Kyle Zingler Halleta Alemu Melody Peng Sean Oey Robert Harvey Noah Benjamin Jennifer L. Marshall Roger Payano Patricia French Victoria Anastasi Julia Vasi Bruno Rose Amber Chardae Robinson Fernando Martinez Mike Endoso Show All…

Alternative Titles

Stuber - 5 Sterne Undercover, Стубер

thriller action crime comedy

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Popular reviews

Review by IHE ½ 29

Incredibly boring. Avoid.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 16

In a desolate summer of blockbuster sequels and Disney remakes and Pokémon moonlighting as detectives, it’s hard to overstate how refreshing it is to see a studio movie as silly and self-contained as Michael Dowse’s “Stuber.” Spider-Man is nowhere to be found. The biggest action scene is set in a sporting goods store. And the hero isn’t fighting to save the planet, but only to help pay for the small business he wants to open with his crush (it’s a spinning gym geared towards single women called “Spinsters”). If not for the triple-underlined nowness of an action-comedy about a rideshare driver — will that premise make even a lick of sense to anyone in the future? — and a socially…
Review by JamieBeltman ½ 12

So bad I was expecting Ryan Reynolds to show up in it
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 6

This is very funny but it's also yet another action comedy made by people who can't shoot action and don't have the bloodlust necessary to make this feel simultaneously transgressive and faithful to genre. There's a brilliant version of this where Nanjiani isn't the usual put-upon weiner who learns how to stick up for himself but instead a miserable dork with nothing to lose who self-actualizes with a gun in his hand, something terrifying and hilarious that the tough cop can't control. Thank God for Dave Bautista though, the guy is a treasure. Fun, but we can all do better.
Review by josh lewis ★★

this is frequently funny and bautista is growing into a genuinely special performer; while the rock has gone full instagram branded gym bro content actor here is a dude with a physicality just as absurd willing to use it to play wounded and silly. however the ~toxic masculinity~ angle of this felt really performative and undercooked to me and the action is unforgivable. what's even the point in hiring iko uwais if you're gonna shoot some shaky close-ups and cut them to shit? for the love of god just hire a stunt guy to 2nd-unit ghost direct the fights or something.
Review by Matthew Christman ★½ 5

If you're going to make a dogshit pseudo-comedy that doubles as a 90-minute piece of sponsored content for a predatory hell app, is it too much to ask for said hell app to be accurately depicted? THAT'S NOT HOW UBER WORKS!!
Review by <Todd> ★★★½ 3

"He kidnapped me, we killed some people." - Stu,
- 2019 Ranked: boxd.it/2lsbC
I'm more likely to take Uber than Lyft because of this movie. I know how stupid that is but I'm just being real.
A beta male uber driver at a crossroads in his life crosses paths with an alpha male police detectve at a crossroads in his life and hilarity ensues. I think really liking this movie is the biggest surprise of the year for me so far because I found this consistently chuckle-worthy to belly laugh from about 5 minutes into the movie until about 5 minutes left in the movie.
Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani, both of whom I like, have a really good comic…
Review by Sofyan ★★★

Not excellent, but enjoyable time waster.
Review by Cameron Kanachki ★★★½ 2

It’s not perfect at all, but it’s a solid comedy.
Review by Austin Burke ★★★ 1

⚠️60%
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Let’s rewind to a time before Guardians when no one was taking Dave Bautista serious as an actor; because no one believed he could transcend past his “calling” like The Rock did. Let’s rewind back to a time before The Big Sick when Kumail Nanjiani wasn’t a top tier comedian. That film made Hollywood take him significantly more serious and allowed him to get cast in roles like this. With their comedic chops, I anticipated this movie to be way funnier than it was. It was definitely funny but the jokes were more 50/50 instead of 70/30 (like I usually prefer in a comedy). When a comedy isn’t funny, it has…
Review by 24framesofnick ★★ 2

It’s just my vidcon trip
Review by <Todd> ★★★

"That's not how uber works" - Stu,
If Lyft did a movie like this it would be called Clyft.
This easily could end up being a cheap ad for a corporation but I think it's a fairly successful action comedy. Stuber is just self-aware enough to be funny by 2020 standards while not being so self-aware that it becomes annoying or overly cynical. Nanjiani and Bautista have great chemistry, including a fight scene that made me laugh out loud.
Recommended to fans of 1980s buddy comedies.

Recent reviews

Review by Beamercineast ★★

Der Film liefert genau was einem das Cover verspricht.
Die Wortwahl und die explizite Gewaltdarstellung passen zwar nicht zur FSK Freigabe aber die Verhältnisse verschieben sich zu früher immer weiter.
Für einen Sonntagnachmittag ist er ok mehr aber nicht.
Review by dac23 ★★★

Good buddy cop vibe
Review by Suneel Mistry ★★★★

This movie is going to age real well
Bautista with hair is so strange
So well written on the complexitivity of emotion
I need a sequel so they can walk away from an explosion
Review by Daniel ★★★

IT WAS A LEEEEEASE!
Review by xander85

Full review @ www.lilithia.net/stuber/
You would think that the pairing of a giant brute in Bautista and a mild-mannered hilarious Nanjiani wouldn’t work, but this pairing is pleasantly surprising and their characters bounce off each other perfectly.
Stuber is fun and hilariously ridiculous with entertaining action sequences and twists to boot. This film will have you in stitches and glued to the screen until the very end.
Review by SpanishEdward ★★½

Some of the shit looked like it actually hurt to do.
Review by Anthony Trento ★★★½

Don’t understand the mediocre reviews on this.
Review by Anabella Palmer ★★★

Pretty basic but disc golf made a cameo in the sporting goods store fight... soooo thats cool. Also I love Kumail Nanjiani so yeah this was good lol
Review by Maura_Pop ★★★

Funny! Better than expected!
Review by chadnewsbears

Sean Evans voice: “Careful around the eyes...”
Review by Jake Molz ★★★½

I don’t get all the hate for this one. Maybe critics just hate having fun. Not to be that guy, but like, how do you not have a good time watching this. You can’t tell me Bautista isn’t an incredible actor. Better than the rock that’s for sure.
Look, COLLATERAL is one of my top films. So a comedy heavily inspired by the Mann classic starring Bautista and Nanjiani was something I’d be an easy mark for, ok? Also Iko Uwais
Review by Teuku_Fariza ★★

Film komedi yang biasa aja, tapi lumayan menghibur. Jadi ada sopir uber yang dapat orderan dari LAPD dab tiba-tiba harus menyeret si sopir buat ngebantuin si polisi mengincar bandar heroin, Tedjo, yang diperankan oleh Iko Uwais.