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    Collateral, Damaged: 'Stuber' Is A Tired Retread

    The latest summer action-comedy to attempt to satirize summer action-comedies by upping the violence, Stuber wastes its two charismatic leads in an unfunny riff on 2004's Collateral.
    by Chris Klimek Jul 11, 2019 3 minutes
    Somebody's Uber rating is taking a hit. L to R: Vic (Dave Bautista), Stroker (Pico) and Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) in <em>Stuber.</em>

    In Michael Mann's surprisingly funny 2004 thriller Collateral, assassin Tom Cruise takes meek taxi driver Jamie Foxx hostage, forcing him to spend a terrifying night ferrying the hitman around Los Angeles as they're pursued by lawmen who think the cabbie is the killer.

    In Michael Dowse's surprisingly bloody new comedy burned-out narc Dave Bautista takes meek Uber driver Kumail Nanjiani hostage, forcing him to spend a terrifying night ferrying the cop around Los Angeles as they're pursued by drug dealers who

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