1. Pain & Gain | Rotten Tomatoes
It may be his most thought-provoking film to date, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain ultimately loses its satirical edge in a stylized flurry of violent spectacle.
Danny Lupo (Mark Wahlberg), manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul (Dwayne Johnson) and Adrian (Anthony Mackie) as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub) and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
2. Pain & Gain | Moviepedia - Fandom
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American action comedy film directed by Michael Bay and starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie.
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American action comedy film[4][7] directed by Michael Bay and starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie. It is based on the activities of the Sun Gym gang, a group of ex-convicts and bodybuilders convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami in the mid-1990s. Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's screenplay is adapted from a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins, which were compiled in the book Pain & Gain: This Is a
3. Pain & Gain: the true story behind the movie - The Guardian
Aug 27, 2013 · For one whole month a brutal criminal gang held and tortured businessman Marc Schiller. Eventually he signed over millions of dollars to ...
For one whole month a brutal criminal gang held and tortured businessman Marc Schiller. Eventually he signed over millions of dollars to them. His story is now the subject of a movie, but the ordeal was much worse in real life
4. Pain and Gain - Investigators, Inc.
An original song, released March 1, 2013 on iTunes and CDBaby, was written and performed by Ed Du Bois, III as an homage to his client and Sun Gym Gang victim, ...
A Movie was produced about a case investigated by Ed Du Bois, III and successfully prosecuted by the State of Florida.
5. Pain & Gain (2013) directed by Michael Bay • Reviews, film + cast
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion.
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
6. Pain and Gain movie review & film summary (2013) - Roger Ebert
While Michael Bay originally conceived "Pain & Gain" as a "small movie" that he would make before his most recent "Transformers" sequel, nothing about Bay's ...
While Michael Bay originally conceived "Pain & Gain" as a "small movie" that he would make before his most recent "Transformers" sequel, nothing about Bay's new film is little. As we're repeatedly reminded throughout the film, "Pain & Gain" is based on a true story: Between 1994 and 1995, three Floridan body-builders tried to get rich quick by robbing and killing.
7. Review: Pain & Gain - Film Comment
Apr 25, 2013 · Pain & Gain is a contemporary exploitation film; it was made for $25 million, which is cheap by Michael Bay standards.
Gold Rolexes and 'roid rage, based on a true story
8. How True Is Pain & Gain?
Apr 26, 2013 · At the opening of Pain & Gain, the new Michael Bay movie starring Mark Wahlberg, we are told that, “unfortunately,” what follows is a true story.
At the opening of Pain & Gain, the new Michael Bay movie starring Mark Wahlberg, we are told that, “unfortunately,” what follows is a true story. It’s...
9. Pain & Gain | Paramount Global Wiki - Fandom
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American action comedy film<][1][3] directed by Michael Bay and starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie.
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American action comedy film<][1][3] directed by Michael Bay and starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie. The film is loosely based on a story Pete Collins published in a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles and compiled in the book Pain & Gain: This Is a True Story (2013), which details the kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder of several victims by the Sun Gym gang.[4][5] The film's title is a play on the common adage, frequently used in fitness:
10. Pain & Gain (2013) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion.
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
11. Pain & Gain True Story vs. Movie - Real Daniel Lugo, Paul Doyle
Apr 12, 2013 · We pit the Pain & Gain true story vs. the Michael Bay movie. Meet the real Paul Doyle and Daniel Lugo, portrayed by Dwayne 'The Rock' ...
We pit the Pain & Gain true story vs. the Michael Bay movie. Meet the real Paul Doyle and Daniel Lugo, portrayed by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Mark Wahlberg.
12. Pain & Gain (2013) - Medium
Apr 10, 2020 · Pain & Gain (2013) ... One obvious but important critique of Pain & Gain, as with practically every film Michael Bay has ever made, is its ...
I almost didn’t watch this film. For the whole daily review thing I decided I would do a mix of classics, unknowns and the odd bad film…
13. Pain & Gain (2013) - filmcentric
Aug 26, 2013 · Pain & Gain (2013) ... By now, he's able to make it seem the most natural thing in the world—possibly thanks to having in part created ...
Like a lot of people, I’m guilty of throwing out disparaging comments about Michael Bay’s filmmaking style, based on his favoured genre, the special effects-laden science-fiction tentpo…
14. 'Pain & Gain' (2013) directed by Michael Bay - LONDON CITY NIGHTS
Aug 14, 2013 · The product: Pain & Gain, a tale of murderous criminal Mami bodybuilders complete with exploding cars, speedboat chases and lots of oodles slow ...
Watching the rubbish so you don't have to.
15. Pain & Gain (2013) (Film) - TV Tropes
A description of tropes appearing in Pain & Gain (2013). Pain & Gain is ... He made fun of fat people and poor people. Butt-Monkey: Kershaw spends most ...
Pain & Gain is a 2013 dark comedy film directed by Michael Bay and based on a series of 1999 Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins about "a couple of Florida steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders who become criminals involved in an …
16. Pain & Gain | Top Shelf Movies
Apr 16, 2014 · There's a good movie in here somewhere. The story of three inept bodybuilders who turn to life of crime is an intriguing idea for a film, ...
There’s a good movie in here somewhere. The story of three inept bodybuilders who turn to life of crime is an intriguing idea for a film, even more so when you realize that it’s b…
17. Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg on hand in 'Pain & Gain' - USA Today
Apr 24, 2013 · It did. Pain & Gain does take some Hollywood license. But the dark, dark comedy about the exploits of Miami's steroid-and-stripper-loving Sun ...
Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg explore the darkness in their R-rated new film.
18. Nonstop Movies: 'Pain & Gain' - HONOLULU Magazine
Apr 26, 2013 · I initially thought “Pain & Gain” would be an action film, but it turned out to be a farcical comedy. The irony is that the incredibly ...
Director Michael Bay exemplifies the image of the “ugly American.” He’s excessive, over-indulgent, loud, brash and he doesn’t give
19. Michael Bay 'Pain and Gain' Reviews: Variety critics vantage points
Apr 25, 2013 · The large-scale destructiveness he has previously wreaked upon public and private property (including entire cities), Michael Bay visits on ...
The large-scale destructiveness he has previously wreaked upon public and private property (including entire cities), Michael Bay visits on the human body in "Pain & Gain," a pulverizing steroidal farce based on a bizarre-but-true kidnapping-and-murder case.
20. Movie Review : Pain & Gain (2013) - Dead End Follies
Mar 20, 2014 · It's a comedy that outlines the sad state of a theoretical promise made to everybody who assumed it was made to them. It's not a ripoff ...
I have knowledge I'm not quite sure what to do with. For example : never doubt a film suggestion by Jedidiah Ayres . The St-Louis based author runs the blog Hardboiled Wonderland where he gives movie suggestions every month and not all of them are good, they are actually great. So should I wa
21. 'Pain & Gain': Michael Bay's Suffering Fools - NPR
Apr 25, 2013 · The action comedy Pain & Gain wants very much to be a sardonic social commentary in the Fargo vein — but the director's appetite for glossy ...
The action comedy Pain & Gain wants very much to be a sardonic social commentary in the Fargo vein — but the director's appetite for glossy consumerism gets between him and the story's moral.
