2019 Directed by Michael Dowse
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.
Dave Bautista Kumail Nanjiani 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…
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…
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.
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.
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!!
Nicole: So, how do you know my dad?
Stu: He kidnapped me. We killed some people
This was surprisingly good considering how low the ratings are.
The story had an interesting idea, which was somewhat original. The movie still had many cliches and it was mostly pretty predictable but it is a dumb fun action comedy so what did you expect?
The action was good and along with the comedy, it gave the movie a nice pacing with few slow moments.
I liked the chemistry between Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani, even though Kumail Nanjiani’s character had a few unfunny moments that occasionally made his character mildly annoying. He also had good moments so it wasn’t too bad but I…
"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…
⚠️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…
