I think he's a very good actor, but here he was made ridiculous comic relief. I was embarrassed for him.

Actually, it's HELLA BAY, to go wine tasting (being within an hour proximity to Sonoma & Napa). It also looked like their apartment was in the Tenderloin so definitely close to downtown; walking distance to the Symphony and a 10 min bus ride to catch those art exhibits. Lol!!

That, and the fact that Luis really,
really
wants to be a stereotypical Latino "gangsta". But then he makes fantastic waffles, goes to wine tastings, art exhibits and comes up with the idea of playing a character who has the habit of whistling, during the heist.
Luis is just so
cool
.
It was so facepalm-worthy when El Mayimbe put the character down for being a stereotype Latino gangsta. Talk about not understanding a character.
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I didn't care for him in Shooter or End of Watch but those were both more because of his character, rather than him. He was hilarious in this.
I watched this on TV immediately after Avengers 2 (which I'd already seen), and enjoyed it immensely more. Why? Because it's goofy and it knows it. Avengers, and most other Marvel movies take themselves too seriously, but then awkwardly cram in lame, unfunny one-liners at literally a rate of at least 2 per minute.

I thought the best thing about him was his facial expressions after saying all of those lines mentioned in this topic. He just had a stupid look to his face and it was hilarious.
But my favorite line of his was
Luis: I'm in the syssstem?
TI (Points at him): You're the in the system.
Luis: the system.

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Back it up, back it up slowly, back it up.

Paul Rudd's facial expressions and pure mannerisms matched Pena's and both may be the best in the business at it. RDJr is also a master.
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The van scene in the beginning was hilariousand Paul Rudd's facial expression looking at him.
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Easily the worst part of the movie, and that's saying a lot.

He's back for another round. They announced it last month.

It's kind of amazing when you compare this performance to, let's say, his role as Gordo in Fury.

I've always found hum intelligent but fairly forgettable up to know. But this was a revelation - very versatile and funny

He was the funniest thing in the movie, most of his lines were great, and that ending with him telling the story was fantastic, loved it, hahaha

He was brilliant I havent laughed this hard in quite some time back it up.. back it up

I agree. He played a brilliant idiot, I mean, it was way faster to simply say, "The Falcon is looking for ya". LOL

I too enjoyed Pena in this, it was nice to see him being a little silly. I also really got a kick out of the lip syncing bits. For those of you who enjoyed the lip synced story telling you should check out a show called "Drunk History". It's pretty amusing, especially if you catch it in the right frame of mind.

The lip-sync thing is amazing! I've never seen anything like that before. This movie is very entertaining and the flying sequences blew me away!
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The story he retells at the end was the best scene from the entire movie. I laughed so hard how everyone was synced to his way of talking.
Damn straight, that scene was genius, with those different characters lip synching to his narration. The guy was superb in this, he even lifted the mediocre jokes above average - "back it up, yeah just back it up, back it up now"
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The story he retells at the end was the best scene from the entire movie. I laughed so hard how everyone was synced to his way of talking.
Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!

I liked that they even made that a disadvantage to him once, in that he knocked out that huge guy and then needed to drag him out of the building.
The story had all these little details that were great, and Pena and the other actors made the most of every opportunity.
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Am I the only one who thought it was hilarious that he seemed to knockout everyone in one punch lol! He did mention when he picked up Paul Rudd From Jail that he was the only one to ever knockout the gang leader in jail.

I loled when TI takes that cellphone pic of the waffle with the whipped cream and strawberry on top.