Pain & Gain Page #14

Synopsis: Based on the true story of Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) a Miami bodybuilder who wants to live the American dream. He would like to have the money that other people have. So he enlists the help of fellow bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) and ex-convict, Christian bodybuilder Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson). Their kidnapping and extortion scheme goes terribly wrong since they have muscles for brains and they're left to haphazardly try to hold onto the elusive American dream.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Michael Bay
Production: Paramount Studios
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2013
129 min
$49,300,000
Website
7,354 Views


At first, the evidence

was mostly circumstantial,

physical proof of the murders

being hard to come by.

Eventually, they found

the barrels and bodies,

but no fingerprints.

And then, for the first time

in the history of the United States...

PROSECUTOR:

Two 750 cc breast implants.

ED". ...they used the manufacturer's

unique serial numbers for identification.

Paul Doyle seemed to embrace

the concept of confession.

They kidnapped Kershaw,

they tried to kill him.

I just want to go back to prison.

They used chainsaws to cut them up!

He said no one would get hurt.

They hurt Pepe.

They hurt him bad. They hurt my friend.

Manipulator of manipulators.

PAUL". Wow. That felt good.

All they got is testimony

from some f***ing cokehead.

ED". In the end, though,

all justice really needed

to do was listen to

the right guy at the right time.

In light of his cooperation,

Mr. Doyle was given only 15 years.

A sentence for which

he seemed legitimately grateful.

I once was lost

But now I'm found...

ED". Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorba!

were found guilty

of double murder, racketeering,

attempted extortion, theft,

attempted murder, armed robbery,

burglary, money laundering and forgery.

In fact, the only thing

they weren't found guilty of

was the one thing

they were most guilty of,

being dumb stupid fucks.

It took the jury only 14 minutes

to sentence them both to death.

(SIGHS)

This seems like such a waste.

People's lives.

You know?

Some people just don't

know a good thing

when it's staring them in the face.

(SIGHS)

ED". It really is the

simple things in life.

Daniel just wanted to be like everyone.

Everyone that wants

the American dream.

DANIEL:
All I ever wanted out of life

was what everyone else had.

Not more.

Just not the less I was used to.

Well, I took a real swing for it,

you know?

And for a while, it was like

I always thought it would be.

I was one of you.

And it felt good.

People finally saw me like I saw myself

and you can't ask for more than that.

Maybe I did, though.

Maybe it got so I didn't want to

be "equal to" anymore.

I wanted to be "better than.

And that's a recipe for injury.

That doesn't mean you give up, though.

You rest, you heal and

you get back on that bench.

Life is going to give me another set.

And I am going to rock it.

Because my name is Daniel Lugo,

and I believe in fitness.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

DANIEL:
(VOICE ECHOING)

That's the American dream.

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Christopher Markus

Christopher Markus is a writer and producer, known for Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Captain America: The First Avenger. more…

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