Summary
More than a 10 afterward , Dwayne Johnson ’s in darkness comedic act in the action - packed Michael Bay satirePain & Gainis still my favorite performance by the iconic matman - turned - thespian . While Johnson is famous for his charismatic screen presence and undeniable star baron , he ’s not bang for being a particularly great player . It ’s unlikely that his name will ever come out on the Best Actor ballot at the Oscars . But just because he ’s not a big actor like Marlon Brando , it does n’t necessarily mean he ’s a bad doer like Tommy Wiseau .
Johnson has the capacity to deliver a great performance ; he just needs to find the right function in the right project under the good theatre director . He gave forgettable turns in movies likeRampage , Skyscraper , andBaywatch , but those movies all lack a becoming script , a reason to subsist , and a unique approach by an auteur filmmaker . Johnson give what I mean is his best carrying into action inPain & Gain – a motion picture that tells a fascinating true - crime news report with a singular , superbly pitch - smutty comic access by Michael Bay .
Pain & Gain Is Arguably Dwayne Johnson’s Best Performance
Johnson fully committed to the bit
While John Cena and Dave Bautista continually push themselves to branch out , render new thing , and search fictitious character type they have n’t play before , Johnson is often criticized for playing the same persona in every movie . But The Rock is great at what he does . He brought an endearing seriousness to his turn as deliverance helicopter pilot light Ray Gaines in the thrilling disaster dramaSan Andreas ; he won over trillion of sports fan with his wizardly voiceover performance as Maui inMoana ; and he give his all to mania - labor role like Hercules and Black Adam .
Butarguably the finest performance of his career is his turn as ex - yard bird , bodybuilder , and born - again Christian Paul Doyle in Michael Bay’sPain & Gain . Pain & Gainturns the trick of the Sun Gym work party – a group of bodybuilding criminal who institutionalise kidnapping , extortion , twisting , and murder in Miami in the mid-‘90s – into a delightfully morose comedy . Pain & Gainprovided further proof that Bay does his good oeuvre on a smaller budget . All ofBay ’s best picture show , fromBad BoystoAmbulanceto13 Hours : The undercover Soldiers of Benghazi , were made for well under $ 100 million .
Pain & Gain’s Michael Bay Comedy Suited The Rock Perfectly
Bay’s brazen, bombastic satire perfectly matched The Rock’s comic abilities
Bay ’s brazen , bombastic sense of humor was perfectly suitable to Johnson ’s comedic abilities . Johnson is n’t the kind of comedic player who can capture the restrained clumsiness of human interaction with the subtlety of Catherine O’Hara or Fred Willard or Jason Bateman . rather , he gets laughs from the exorbitance of his role . InThe Fate of the Furious , Johnson got a big joke by redirecting a missile with his spare hired man . InThe Other Guys , he have a big laugh when he leap off the ceiling of a skyscraper and “ aim for the Bush . ”
This style of humor was perfectly matched with Bay ’s approachto the musclebound murderers ’ antic inPain & Gain . Pain & Gainpresented Johnson with absurd situations like burning the fingermark off of the execution victim ’ sever hands on a barbecue grillwork . Like all the serious comedic actors , Johnson committed wholeheartedly to the bit – and it lead in arguably the best carrying into action of his career .
painfulness & Gaingrossed $ 86 million worldwide against a $ 26 million budget .
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The Rock’s Recent Movies Have Wasted His Comedy Chops
Jungle Cruise and Red Notice have very few laughs
Johnson ’s comedic talentshaven’t been decent employ in five year . In 2019 , Johnson reprise his part as telecasting plot avatar Smolder Bravestone inJumanji : The Next Level , bring together Jason Statham for the crony - cop antics ofFast & FuriousspinoffHobbs & Shaw , and made an unforgettable cameo as himself in Stephen Merchant ’s grappling biopicFighting with My Family . He was screaming in all three of these flick . He had plenty of fun spiel the unlike Centennial State - genius personify hisJumanjiavatar , he shared capital interpersonal chemistry with Statham inHobbs & Shaw , and he was delightfully ego - deprecate inFighting with My Family .
In 2019 , Johnson delivered three cracking comedic performancesthat prove once again that he ’s just as adept at comedy as straight lead - humankind personal magnetism . But in the half - decade since , none of Johnson ’s directors have utilized those talents;Jungle Cruisewas undermine by an mindless twist ending andRed Noticeused its hackneyed meta wink to the audience to point out the laziness of its own storytelling , not to make the hearing express joy . All these eld later , Pain & Gainremains the funniest – and dear – operation of Johnson ’s life history .
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Cast
Pain & Gain features Mark Wahlberg , Dwayne Johnson , and Anthony Mackie as three Miami muscleman who get catch up with up in a kidnapping and extortion scheme that run low awry . The 2013 action comedy , directed by Transformers director Michael Bay , is based on the lawful story of the real - life Sun Gym mob .
Pain & Gain features Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as three Miami bodybuilders who get caught up in a kidnapping and extortion scheme that goes awry. The 2013 action comedy, directed by Transformers director Michael Bay, is based on the true story of the real-life Sun Gym gang.
Pain & Gain features Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as three Miami bodybuilders who get caught up in a kidnapping and extortion scheme that goes awry. The 2013 action comedy, directed by Transformers director Michael Bay, is based on the true story of the real-life Sun Gym gang.
