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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Michael Bay | |
| Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Comedy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 23.07.2013, Schauburg, OV Sneak preview | |
| Synopsis: A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. | |
| Review: It is a true story and as such really incredible. But is it worth to laugh at 3 body builders more than two hours long because of there sillyness? I do not think so. It is the kind of story you tell your friends at lunch after having read your newspaper, and this does not take more than 5 minutes. The acting is acceptable but the scenery makes it all ridiculous. It seems that Michael Bay really wanted to make fools of these guys. This is not saved by the music nor the acting. This can be watchable for a couple of funny spots. | |
Rating: 2 /10
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Pain and gain (2013)
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I have watched Pain and Gain on 06.04.2014 in SD VOD on my Home cinema. I didn't know which kind of movie it was. During the first 20 minutes I though Michael Bay was trying again to sell me the American Dream, but then the unbelievable stupidity of the body builders make it obvious that it was a comedy.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the true story that inspired the movie, I understand that the families of the victims (and many movie viewers) felt cheated by Michael Bay who kept on insisting that everything was true. The real story and characters are really not funny at all.
But then it didn't disturb me to lauch at those guys for two hours. The references to the real-life of Arnold Schwarzenegger at the beginning are obvious: body-builders who wish to have the money to go with their perfect bodies. There is even a poster of Pumpin Iron on the wall. But the comparison stops there, as the future Governator was a much more clever man, as I learned partly when reading his autobiography Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.
So I laughted during the movie, but it still makes me sick to see, even in a fiction, how some Americans can be lured by the American Dream, and would be ready to do anything to achieve it, including and in particular crushing others, instead of enjoying the simple things in life.
My rating: 6/10.