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) is a touchy, easily disconcerted Uber driver who can’t afford to get another one-star review. And “Stuber” is the wildly irreverent crash-test action comedy that throws these two polar opposites together for a night of shootouts, stakeouts, and bust-out big laughs, as Vic commandeers Stu’s puny electric car, simultaneously deputizing and endangering its terrified driver, who hates it when you call him “Stuber.
His slick, in-your-face attitude is clear from the opening scene, in which Vic and sharpshooting partner Morris think they’re about to catch the mastermind of a heroin-peddling ring in the penthouse of a posh downtown hotel, but are instead greeted by a series of shotgun blasts. Predictably, Morris won’t make it out alive, though Dowse doesn’t treat the scene as you would expect.
Compared with Vic’s inarticulate powder-keg intensity, Stu comes across as a witty but easily-trod-upon wimp who juggles two jobs in order to earn enough to buy the affection of his friend-zoned dream gal : working at a sporting goods store by day, offering rides in his newly leased Prius after-hours.
Since Vic can’t see well, Stu is left to serve as his eyes, resulting in an almost vaudevillian dynamic in which Bautista embodies brute force while Nanjiani nimbly tries to direct the aggro cop’s rage in the right direction. They make for a surprisingly effective team — resulting in a bloody series of henchman-dropping headshots — even as the tension between them escalates, to the point that they wind up fighting each other back at the sporting-goods store where Stu works.
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