Luke Brunner (Arnold Schwarzenegger) fires the last few shots, gets on a motorcycle, and drives roughly into the sunset: At least the service at the CIA, which cost him his marriage and even the whole family (he doesn’t know), seems to be over with that. Ahead – a boarding house, a yacht and attempts to return his wife. But he wasn’t there: The authorities demand that he join the mission to rescue the agent whose identity is about to be revealed. The agent is embedded in the structure of the arms dealer and terrorist Boro Polonia. (Gabriel Luna)Brunner has a long history (Boro knows him as a colleague who replaced his father). It turned out at the scene that this wasn’t about an agent, it was about an agent, and it was Brunner’s own daughter, Emma. (Monica Barbaro), also hiding his real job from his family. Thus, a dangerous mission turns into a tense family showdown.
The phrase “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first series” sounds appealing and solid, but first of all, “FUBAR” isn’t exactly the first (there was an animated “Superhero Kindergarten” a few years ago – like “Kindergarten Cop”, just the idea of Stan Lee, well , okay, the first game) and the second, not because it will be solid. This is a completely standard spy comedy, similar to all spy comedies at once (with a bit of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” to start): silly intelligence jokes, silly fancy gadgets, sprawling cranberries (it’s hard to resent those anymore) it’s but with yak sperm “classic Russian drink” in the form of vodka – seriously?), a fictional Eastern European country (plus Kazakhstan) with an automatically generated name, and the list goes on. In a word, “Sylvester Stallone’s debut series” is not like “The King of Tulsa”, but in principle it is appropriate within the framework of Schwarzenegger’s filmography.
The local sad lack of originality (the bar contention under the “Song 2” Blur), after all, Schwarzenegger in general can be experienced. What’s more, she’s doing everything she’s done everywhere before, but somehow grunts a bit nervously in the process (she’s 65 years old, 75 in life, according to the plot). You can survive, but the strange humor actively interferes with this, as if marking Schwarzenegger of the same age: for example, “FUBAR” in 2023 gives something serious in the category “girls do not like nerds.” However, if we think of this embarrassment as a conscious artistic tool, they say, dad jokes come to giggle in some places: there’s at least one posh about Danny DeVito and one cute joke about Liam Neeson. Therefore, it will not be difficult to forgive the flying fists, for example, like bullets in milk (with the rejection of a critical look at the activities and methods of the special services, understandable for the genre; it happens in episodes with torture, completely offended).
What’s far more difficult to forgive is the timing: although FUBAR is made exactly to the dubious principles of expensive Netflix action comedies, it doesn’t have a single sufficient reason to go, say, eight hours instead of two. and the Gray Man, who at least has the conscience to remain a feature film. In that sense, the show fully justifies its name (FUBAR is “Too Awful To Fix Everything”, meaning “hopelessly *** but [профукано]The rest of the series continues to be a sweet and heartbreaking family drama (in the sense, it’s nothing family-friendly, but kind of, let’s say the term is a description of the family plot), that everyone – no matter you’re 25 or 65 – Of course, if at 65 you still have room to grow, then you can just be jealous.