Pain Hustlers

O impacto de O Lobo de Wall Street permanece. O filme Pain Hustlers trata de outro sucesso empresarial baseado em eventos reais que não foi completamente legal. Emily Blunt é bonita nos belos trajes, Andy Garcia como o chefe bilionário é encantador. No entanto, o filme segue os clichês, falta-lhe um toque autoral de direção e, embora não seja enfadonho, o seu valor está apenas na explicação do funcionamento do comércio de medicamentos, desde o fabricante até o suborno de médicos para que eles os prescrevam. Ganância e egoísmo que destroem a vida dos pacientes. A única personagem com remorso e arrependimento é Emily Blunt. E isso é tudo. (28/10/2023)

I like these films, but it lacked more drive, a fiercer pace and better situational humour. Wall Street and Dumb Money are maybe a level or two up, but Pain Hustlers still has its bright moments. It terms of plot it follows a familiar template and goes sadly without surprises. Emily Blunt gets lucky with an interesting job and starts making some decent money, but a person can only on top for a while and classically things start to fall apart again and you kind of wait for it to end. There are a few deaf spots, unfortunately, but the insight into the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry was good. The trial turned out interesting and surprising to me and Emily Blunt stole it nicely for herself. 65%. (31/10/2023)

To the doctor on my deathbed and to the pharmacy not even for vitamin C... A decent Netflix movie filmed at an unexpected Wolf of Wall Street pace about the rise of a start-up pharmaceutical company and how market greed kills. The acting trio of Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy Garcia revels in every scene, but it's Blunt who takes her complicated motivations that elevates Pain Hustlers a notch higher. Captain America, on the other hand, is unexpectedly understated, though handles very well the asshole salesman role who knows that's just the way things works. A nice surprise, especially for routine artist David Yates, who needed redemption after the wizards. (02/11/2023)