Thursday 13 March 2014

Pain & Gain
Dir: Michael Bay
2013
**
Much like me at the gym, Pain & Gain runs out of steam very quickly and never really recovers. It seemed like a good idea at the time but it buckles at around the 20 minute mark. It's based on a true story, indeed at the end of the film we actually see mug shots of the real people the actors are portraying. They don't look alike at all and for the first time ever I will say that it might have been of benefit to the film to have been lenient with the truth (or more so) to jazz it up a bit because the film chases it's own tail for a good 40 minutes at washing machine speeds. It's an incoherent mess, which is a shame because there is a good story to be told in there somewhere. Kudos to the actors though who are all very good.

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