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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Jeffries

Fubar review – Arnie’s a natural comedian in this unstoppably daft crime drama

‘Isn’t Arnie too old to be in the field?’ … Arnold Schwarzenegger as FBI agent Luke Brunner in Netflix’s Fubar.
‘Isn’t Arnie too old to be in the field?’ … Arnold Schwarzenegger as FBI agent Luke Brunner in Netflix’s Fubar. Photograph: Christos Kalohororidis/Netflix

It is painful for a parent to realise that their darling daughter has grown up into a foul-mouthed, substance-abusing brawler. So Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t exactly pleased when it happens to him in this unstoppably daft hokum.

When Schwarzenegger – AKA undercover CIA agent Luke Brunner – arrives at the baddies’ lair in Guyana for his final mission, there is unpleasantness going on in a makeshift boxing ring. As he approaches, he realises that one of them is a woman. And not just any woman, but one so complacent in her sense of imminent victory that she is smoking a cigarette mid-bout.

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