Pain & Gain... So I saw the new flick at the theater on Sunday (yes, I'm still out of town), and needless to say, it's what you would expect from the mind of Michael Bay. Pain & Gain was an interesting film...and a good indicator of how well Mark Wahlberg will get along with Bay once they begin filming Transformers 4 in about a month or two. However, with Pain & Gain being based on a true story and all, it's clearly obvious that unlike Ben Affleck on Argo, Bay doesn't really care for historical accuracy in this crime caper. Wahlberg looks nothing like the real Daniel Lugo, Anthony Mackie (of The Hurt Locker and Gangster Squad) bears little resemblance to Adrian Doorbal (I'll have to check online again...but I don't think Doorbal was even African American), and Paul Doyle isn't a gigantic Samoan dude like Dwayne Johnson. Oh, and in another trademark by Bay, Pain & Gain opted for humor where there probably shouldn't be any. Wahlberg, Mackie and Johnson treat their characters like they're the criminal equivalent of Harry and Lloyd from Dumb & Dumber—which kinda feels out-of-place considering that two of the three kidnappers/extortionists were sentenced to death at the end of the movie. But that's just me. Pain & Gain is a dark comedy...so either go to the cinema hoping to be entertained by the true-life buffoonery of these hooligans, or be annoyed that substantial liberty was taken to depicting this crime story—just like what was done with the exploits of Mickey Cohen in Gangster Squad. Carry on.
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