The fact that these greedy characters and their illegal, brutal plans are treated with humor makes this movie very iffy for just about any audience. Add your rating See all 15 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 13 kid reviews. Daniel Lugo Mark Wahlberg -- a personal trainer at a Florida gym circa -- decides to be a "doer" so that he can get all the things he thinks he deserves.
His plan is to kidnap a wealthy delicatessen owner Tony Shalhoub and get him to sign over his fortune. After some initial success, their plan goes desperately wrong, and all their brain-dead attempts to recover it result in disaster after disaster. The plot is based on a true story. Michael Bay , best known for his loud, explosive action movies, takes a step back with this relatively cheaper film, concentrating on fewer special effects and more characters. Unfortunately, this is like watching a chef doing the dishes; it's not his strong suit.
Movies about dumb criminals can be highly entertaining Fargo , for example , but Bay sends his story spinning wildly over the top. His characters are aggravatingly idiotic, the mood is belligerent, and the pacing is erratic.
But worst of all is the humor. Bay may be the least funny director alive, and he insists on using an endless array of cruel, horrible jokes -- about fat people, drug addicts, women in general, and just about everyone else.
Only Ed Harris , playing a private detective, provides any dignity. How is it depicted? Is it gross? Does it seem over-the-top or inappropriate?
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Anderson , Common Sense Media. Violent, stupid, offensive, unfunny "true crime" story. R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 15 reviews. Based on 13 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Several women wear short skirts that reveal most of their bare thighs and lower legs. A man in a hospital room's bathroom removes his gown and runs out, saying he soiled the gown with diarrhea he is wearing only boxers.
A man wears a towel wrapped around his waist. A husband and his wife embrace and roll across the lawn of their home. Two police detectives ask a beating victim in the hospital if his injuries are sex-related, because he smelled of booze on admission please see the Substance Use category for more details , and because his car contained sex aids; the victim denies this. We hear that a man buys his girlfriends breast implants. We hear that a male personal trainer is sexually attracted to obese women.
A personal trainer states that he does not like "homos. In a self-defense demonstration with a woman, the men in the audience are asked, "Who wants to volunteer to be a rapist? In the background of a scene, we see a large billboard that says, "Use a Condom" in huge letters, and features a long row of colored yet indistinct condoms.
Police officers and a SWAT team chase two bodybuilders and a gymnasium owner through a gym, a church and through streets; one bodybuilder escapes to the Bahamas, where local police receive an alert and chase him through a bank, he jumps off a high balcony and lands safely on the street, but receives a gunshot wound to the calf and we see some blood and later a bandage.
In two scenes where one is a flashback, a man runs through streets as a SWAT team fires at him; he falls into a car windshield, cracking it, but is unhurt. In their own crude way, the film's creators are constantly howling about the pervasiveness of cultural indoctrination. They even go so far as to implicate themselves, if only just to prove they're not taking themselves seriously, when Lugo tells Doyle, "I watch a lot of movies, Paul. I know what I'm doing.
Du Bois is unhappy in his retirement and doesn't like the idea of whiling away his remaining years playing golf or going fishing. He doesn't pursue Kershaw's case out of a sense of responsibility, but simply because it's a way to break up the tedium of his life.
But even Du Bois is not infallible; to prove it he's afflicted with back pain, if only momentarily. Bay makes some far-out creative decisions, like his sporadic use of randomly-timed inter-titles such as, "This is still sadly a true story," or a list of potential side effects of cocaine use, including anxiety and ejaculation.
For his ostensibly small movie, Bay experiments with harness-rig digital camerawork and ostentatious tracking shots that pull viewers through pinhole-sized openings in walls and windows. Rated R for bloody violence, crude sexual content, nudity, language throughout and drug use. Mark Wahlberg as Daniel Lugo. Rebel Wilson as Ramona Eldridge. Dwayne Johnson as Paul Doyle.
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