The king of big, loud, over-the-top summer spectacle, Michael Bay, decided to do a smaller project after three Transformers flicks in a row — the (relatively) modestly budgeted Pain & Gain, the true story of a couple of meathead Miami bodybuilders (Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson) who decide to kidnap a rich guy and steal everything he has. What could possibly go wrong?
Quite a bit, obviously, which is the source of the movie’s barbed comedy. Crime comedies are usually great fun, because...
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