Crawl/Stuber

Yeah it's the summer dog days.

Crawl is a very straightforward monster movie. A hurricane floods a house with ravenous alligators and, well, that's it. No scientific bent. No evil humans setting them loose. I appreciated that it didn't pretend to be anything more than it is, but it's never more than just a passable B movie. The acting by Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper is fine. It keeps things fairly realistic. But it's not scary of even that tense, even for someone like me who is both claustrophobic and a bit waterphobic.

Stuber is of a genre I wish we got more, the buddy action comedy, but man is this just a forgettable try. The pairing of Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani sounds better on paper than what we get. For some reason they have Bautista be largely blind for much of the movie, which I guess is supposed to lead to some hilarious physical comedy but doesn't. The side characters are written super broad and annoying(only Natalie Morales fares alright). They cast Iko Uwais from The Raid movies as the bad guy then give him almost nothing to do. Nanjiani has a handful of line deliveries that are funny, but even so he feels badly miscast.

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