If you’re going to see one comedy starring
Kumail Nanjiani as an Uber driver, please make it
the 2017 film he co-scripted, “The Big Sick.”
In “Stuber,” Nanjiani is again behind the wheel
of a compact ride-sharing vehicle, but this
time, the comedy is running on fumes and the
company (Zoe Kazan in “The Big Sick,” Dave
Bautista in “Stuber”) isn’t nearly as good.
Stu is nicknamed “Stuber” by his obnoxious
boss at a sporting goods store in a nod to his
side gig. He’s conscripted by Bautista’s Vic, a Los
Angeles police detective temporarily blinded by
LASIK surgery, to drive him around town. Vic can
hardly see, but he’s hell-bent on pursuing the
most lethally acrobatic drug dealer you’ve ever
seen (Iko Uwais of “The Raid”) who months ago
killed Vic’s partner.
Stu, desperate for a five-star rating, is reluctantly
sucked into a “Beverly Hills Cop”-like buddy
action comedy that quickly turns violent
Stuber | Official Trailer | 20th Century FOX