Fubar, Netflix, review: Arnold Schwarzenegger proves there's no age limit on fun
Actually, Schwarzenegger looks terrific for 75, and is the perfect choice for this. The plot is reminiscent of his Nineties film True Lies: his character, Luke Brunner, has been leading a double life and hiding his CIA work from his family. But when he’s sent to Guyana to rescue a compromised fellow agent, he discovers – spoiler alert – that the agent is none other than his daughter, Emma (Monica Barbaro, who played the female pilot in Top Gun: Maverick).
From this point, much of the comedy is of the dad-daughter variety. Luke had been under the impression that Emma was a sweet-natured, clean-living charity worker. When he finds her in Guyana, bare-knuckle boxing with paramilitaries, he is appalled: “You’ve been lying to me for the last decade. And you smoke!”
The show is least successful when it tries to get serious about Emma’s grudges against her dad – she’s angry that he wasn’t around enough during her childhood, blah blah blah. It can also be overly zany, in the form of a Q-like figure (Milan Carter) who guides operations and is somehow also part of the Brunner family. Schwarzenegger isn’t, shall we say, the most subtle of comedy performers. But he’s having a whale of a time and, if you’re a fan of action comedies, so will you.
