Comedy is a very subjective thing, one persons comic genius is another’s laugh vacuum, I’m sure then somebody out there thinks this is comedy gold, for me I’m pretty sure 90 minutes in an Uber would have been funnier.
The film fails on pretty much every level, the normally reliable Kumail Najiani doesnt have a hope of rescuing it, there’s a bizarrely short cameo from Karen Gillan, doing a favour for Dave Bautista I guess, who himself fails to bring any of his Guardians of the Galaxy wit and warmth.
It really fails from the outset with a ridiculous premise that brings our two central characters together and it never really recovers. The action scenes seem overly violent and misjudged and the comic scenes are few and far between.
There were one or two wry smiles but no more than that. I did watch it on a long haul flight so maybe thin air dulled my comedy senses, or maybe it was just a bit rubbish!
I’ll get an Uber when I land and imagine it will be more fun (It was).
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