The Rock and Mark Wahlberg are fantastic in this movie and their relationship is so good. I love Ant

Traditionally, I have not been a fan of the Rock. His movie I've seen before have not been great, and I really didn't think a wrestler could make his way in and be taken seriously, at least not by me, in major films like Pain & Gain. I am slowly figuring out that I am wrong. The cool thing about this movie was that I watched it after I watched Paranoia. Paranoia attempted to give a story about a man who wanted to "fulfill the American Dream but was limited by the rich men who had achieved that dream and did all they could to hold on to it. Pain and Gain instead is a group of body builders achieving the American Dream by any means necessary.
Pain & Gain is the true story of three body builders who want to make it big. The way they decide 220v timer to do that is to kidnap a wealthy man, force him to sign away his possessions and fortunes to them. This crew is made up of Daniel Lugo (played by Mark Wahlberg) Paul Doyle (The Rock) and Adrian "Noel" Doorbal. Lugo is the leader and brain child of the heist as it were. Doorbal is more of his number two I think, and Doyle, being the biggest one there seems to be the muscle. They kidnap Victor Kershaw (played by Tony Shalhoub, that guy from Monk) The great thing about Tony Shalhoub is that he plays this really cocky, 220v timer asshole jewish millionaire. In many ways you should feel bad for him because he's being kidnaped, tortured and almost murdered 220v timer for his possessions. At the same time, he's a real asshole. 220v timer The movie creates a weird dynamic that in a strange way makes you root for the people committing the crime here. Its very strange because throughout the movie you see Lugo as an asshole manipulating Doyle and Doorbal in order to get what he wants. But at the same time you see them as people on the other side looking in.
And that's probably the main problem with the movie. Its a dark comedy about real life events. If this were a fictional story all the way through, I would think this is actually a stellar movie, 220v timer utilizing comedy with a really dark subject matter. The problem is, portraying Tony Shalhoub as a dick, accurate or not, makes you think, 220v timer wow, they put him on a laundry 220v timer conveyer belt, blindfolded him for days and eventually tried to put him in a car crash, blow him up, and ran him over with a car? Why am I laughing at this? Maybe I'm a horrible person but I was laughing. And if you go into it thinking this movie is fictional, again, its very good. But the movie keeps reminding you its a true story. I don't know. Its a strange movie. Its a movie you shouldn't try to forget its true and in the end you really shouldn't be laughing at it.
The Rock and Mark Wahlberg are fantastic in this movie and their relationship is so good. I love Anthony 220v timer Mackie, and his relationship with his wife (played by Rebel Wilson) is pretty funny. But it doesn't compare 220v timer to the relationship between the Rock and Wahlberg. The Rock, while he's the biggest one there, could not hurt a fly. He's this nice guy who is probably the only one we should be feeling sympathy for. He's just out of prison, 220v timer he's in AA, he's really trying to turn his life around and Marky Marky comes in and just fucks everything up. Mark Wahlberg, is hilarious in this film. I'm convinced 220v timer the man is very good with comedy movies. Its funny because there's a lot of scenes in this movie that reminded me of his character from Ted and I love that.
The thing I love about this movie is that while its a comedy and I still haven't seen anything really spectacular from the Rock that makes me think he can pull off the serious roles, (maybe roles that he's in talks for with DC), I was still impressed by his performance in this movie. He made me feel for his character, he made me believe he was a really nice guy that just got pulled into a shitty situation with the wrong people. He gets addicted to coke and he starts committing crime again but the end subtitle 220v timer for him is great when it says how long he served in prison and has since being trying to apologize.
Ed Harris plays a private 220v timer investigator who is the only one who will listen to Tony Shalhoub. 220v timer He's the one that leads the investigation. Ed Harris is good in this movie. He's not as memorable as The Rock or Mark Wahlberg, he's just Ed Harris. There's not much else to say, he gives a solid supporting performance and he does add to the movie. The film overall is pretty good. I enjoyed it until I start thinking about the fact that its a true story... and a comedy. It must be pretty weird being the family of Victor Kreshaw (a different name in order to preserve the safety of his identity) or the family of the two people who are murdered in this film and say, "Wow, my family member just got murdered in this film and I'm suppose to laugh at Mark Wahlberg getting through it by lifting weights"
Its another good thing about the movie, it totally captures people who are really 220v timer into lifting weights. I happen to know people that are just like this and there were