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A painful journey to dark laughs
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This film image released by Paramount Pictures shows, from left, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from “Pain & Gain,” out in theaters this weekend.
Michael Bay has made a comedy ... sort of. Bay, director of such touchstones of subtlety as “Bad Boys,” “Armageddon” and the Transformers franchise, tries his hand at comedy with “Pain & Gain.” The results are predictable in many ways, because Bay brings the same Red Bull-and-vodka-injected-intravenously, taste-be-damned attitude to comedy that he brings to action.