Pain & Gain (2013)

It's divisive. Only 67% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 47%.

Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story. Wikipedia ↗

Pain & Gain is a 2013 American crime comedy directed by Michael Bay, based on the true story of the Sun Gym Gang. Mark Wahlberg stars as Daniel Lugo, a Miami bodybuilder and personal trainer whose obsessive consumption of self-help motivational philosophy convinces him he deserves a better life — and that the fastest path to wealth is kidnapping one of his wealthy clients, played by Tony Shalhoub, and forcing him to sign over all his assets. Lugo recruits fellow bodybuilders Adrian Doorbal, played by Anthony Mackie, and Paul Doyle, played by Dwayne Johnson, a born-again Christian ex-con, for the scheme, which spirals from incompetent kidnapping through torture to murder as the three muscular, spectacularly stupid criminals leave a trail of evidence that a dogged private investigator, played by Ed Harris, follows to their doorstep.

Michael Bay brought his signature visual style to a true crime story that was so absurd it required on-screen text reminding audiences "this is still a true story." Pain & Gain earned $86 million worldwide on a $26 million budget.