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Pain & Gain Movie 2013 |
About This Movie
Pain and Gain is a true story, sort of. The script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely is based from a series of Pete Collins articles, originally published in the Miami New Times, about the Sun Gym gang. In the mid-1990's these dim-bulb Florida bodybuilders, led by gym manager Danny Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), came up with something rare for them (and Bay) – an idea. Kidnap and extort a rich client, Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub). To help, Danny brings in two besties: personal trainer Adrian (Anthony Mackie) and ex-con Paul (Dwayne Johnson), an alcoholic recovering with the help of Jesus. It's a promising story that deserved more than a Bay botch job. Good actors are trapped in Bay's toxic bubble, forced to make farce out of a scary, real-life situation. In between scenes of the muscleheads torturing their victim, Bay indulges his taste for treating women as sluts and grisly brutality as a nifty excuse for a cheap laugh. Pain and Gain is personal all right. You leave these characters with the distinct impression that they're Bay's kind of people. But I did learn something from Pain and Gain. The next time Bay bars me from screening, I'll realize he's really doing me a favor.
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