Tuesday, April 23, 2013

IGN All: Pain and Gain Review

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Pain and Gain Review
Apr 23rd 2013, 07:23

Pain & Gain is a true crime tale set in the 1990s about three Miami bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) whose scheme to bilk a millionaire client (Tony Shalhoub) out of his fortune and property quickly devolves into torture, mayhem and murder.

Wahlberg's Daniel Lugo is, like Al Pacino's Miami gangster Tony "Scarface" Montana, a warped version of the American dream, a self-proclaimed "doer" whose blind adherence to being a success at all costs leads to awful consequences. Daniel's no criminal genius, though. In fact, the movie portrays him as dumb as a bag of hammers, and Wahlberg is at his best when playing dimwits (Boogie Nights, Ted).

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