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.

Delightfully self-aware given the summer slot it occupies; sandwiched between Spidey and Simba, it’s almost as if Stuber knows its time in the spotlight will be short, thereby making its clamorous efforts to impress all the more endearing. It’s surprisingly progressive for buddy cop romps (wholesome points for writing the dogs in the animal hospital outside before the gunfight starts), and just the right amount of feel-good to tug at heartstrings, deftly avoiding the ever-demoralizing waters of faux-sentimentality. Certainly not spotless, but it’s exactly what I needed. This was dangerously close to being a four-star ride.

It’s just my vidcon trip

In the 1990’s it seemed there were movies like this all the time. A pure comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously, focused on two ‘buddies’ with enough of a plot to hold your attention. It’s packed with jokes all throughout, and even though they don’t all land, the volume of jokes in total leads to a satisfying number of laughs. Although it’s not a movie that’s deeply brilliant, there’s enough moments of emotion and solid acting to keep it afloat. Batista and Nanjiani play off each other well, don’t think this will get a sequel, but it would be cool to see them work together again. Even though it’s quite predictable, I still had fun with this one.

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Dave and Kumail make a surprisingly hilarious duo

this shit cracked me tf up

Kumail Nanjiani is flipping hilarious. His blunt delivery will never get old. Dave Bautista is good, he’s clearly progressing as an actor and he and Nanjiani have a really great chemistry.
The script was well written and really funny.
The plot was simple but the villain situation was slightly confusing. Many of the subplots were predictable and the forshadowing was kinda ham-fisted.
It was a nice surprise and a decent film.

Some of the jokes fell flat but i liked the dynamic between Kumail and Bautista

Ehhhhhh...

This had a few chuckles here and there, and I like the cast but not so much the characters they are playing, which makes it hard to want to watch them do their odd-couple buddy cop routine.
A lot of its comedy falls flat, it’s a bit too long, and it's unique plot point that differentiates it form other similar films, that being that Batista's character is practically blind for the entire film they barely do anything with to the point that I forgot it was a thing the majority of the time. Everything in the film just feels kind of inconsequential.

Overall it’s a very middle of the road action-comedy that I didn't particularly enjoy, but don't think it's so bad as to drop the rating under a flat 5/10

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[Note that I am viewing these films on the UK release schedule for all of my reviews]