pain & gain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209

pain & gain was a fun little flick, though the second half dragged somewhat.  i think that what happened is that the second half of the story covers the part which was well documented because various investigators had gotten involved, while they had a freer hand with the telling of the first half.  to be clear, both halves were entertaining, i just found the change in tone to be a bit jarring.  you should know that i researched this extensively for about five seconds, mostly by thinking about it really hard.

the best part of this movie had to be THE ROCK wearing a "team jesus" shirt, trying to convert the half-jewish kidnapped guy.  i do not know how anyone could fail to love this man.  maybe if they had only ever seen him in the second half of this movie.  mark wahlberg was similarly lovable, but like THE ROCK, much less so in the second half, where he just walked around with bug eyes the whole time.

pain & gain gets three CIA strippers.