Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
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.
Stuber is a fairly formulaic buddy-cop comedy that leans heavily on well-worn genre conventions. The premise — mismatched partners forced together by circumstance — offers little that hasn't been done before, and the plot mechanics are predictable throughout. Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista have decent chemistry and generate genuine laughs, elevating the material above its script, but neither is given much depth to work with. Visually it's competent but unremarkable, shot in a generic action-comedy style with no distinctive aesthetic choices. The ending wraps up neatly and predictably without much payoff. It lands as a passable, mildly entertaining genre entry that doesn't distinguish itself in any meaningful way.