Netflix's new ArnoldSchwarzenegger-led TV series, FUBAR, is an occasionally effective action comedy that greatly overstays its welcome.
FUBAR Score Details “Despite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Monica Barbaro's entertaining lead performances, FUBAR ultimately feels like yet another Netflix original TV series that would have been better off as a movie.” Pros Cons FUBAR feels like a straight-to-DVD action movie that was turned into an eight-episode Netflix series. The new Arnold Schwarzenegger-led comedy has enough outdated jokes and low-rent visuals to pass for the kind of thing one used to find at the bottom of a bargain bin.
The hero in question is Schwarzenegger’s Luke Brunner, a longtime CIA agent who is on the verge of finally retiring when FUBAR begins. His plans quickly change when he is ordered to go on a field mission to extract another agent before their identity is compromised and they are swiftly killed by their target, Boro , an arms dealer whom Luke once looked after and cared for as a child.
If that sounds a bit ridiculous, that’s because it definitely is. Thankfully, FUBAR doesn’t ever take itself too seriously. The series is an absurd action comedy that feels deeply indebted to films and TV shows like True Lies and Get Smart. While it isn’t quite as clever as the latter or as technically accomplished as the former, FUBAR is often at its best whenever it’s trying to be the lightest possible version of those two titles.
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