Pain & Gain (2013)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 88
It may be his most thought-provoking film to date, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain ultimately loses its satirical edge in a stylized flurry of violent spectacle.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 21
It may be his most thought-provoking film to date, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain ultimately loses its satirical edge in a stylized flurry of violent spectacle.
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Movie Info
From acclaimed director Michael Bay comes "Pain and Gain," a new action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie. Based on the unbelievable true story of a group of personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. (c) Official Site
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Cast
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Mark Wahlberg
Daniel Lugo -
Dwayne "The Rock" Jo...
Paul Doyle -
Anthony Mackie
Adrian Doorbal -
Tony Shalhoub
Victor Kershaw -
Ed Harris
Ed Du Bois, Ed Duboi... -
Rob Corddry
John Mese -
Bar Paly
Sorina Luminita -
Rebel Wilson
Robin Peck -
Ken Jeong
Jonny Wu -
Michael Rispoli
Frank Griga -
Keili Lefkowitz
Krisztina Furton -
Emily Rutherfurd
Carolyn "Cissy" Dubo... -
Larry Hankin
Pastor Randy -
Tony Plana
Captain Lopez -
Peter Stormare
Dr. Bjornson -
Vivi Pineda
Detective Hayworth -
Ken Clement
Detective Costello -
Yolanthe Cabau van K...
Barbara -
Brian Stepanek
Brad MacCalister -
Christopher Langstaf...
Nine Year Old Boy -
Persi Caputo
Judy -
Bill Kelly
Jim -
Gregg Weiner
Emcee -
Parris Buckner
Bank Manager -
Nicholas Parsons
Motel Clerk -
Donny Davis
Motel Security -
Vivian Ruiz
Carmen -
Jeff Owings
Kennel Worker -
Rushanna Lewis
Accounts Manager -
Richard Haylor
Branch Manager -
Trudie Petersen
Prosecutor -
Patrick Bristow
Spy Shop Clerk -
Wladimir Klitschko
Client -
Mike Tremont
Naive Conventioneer -
Holland Hayes
Sears Mower Salesper... -
Sabrina Mayfield
Nurse -
Kiki Harris
Home Depot Clerk -
Choice Gray
Tiffany -
Chez Mena
Real Doctor -
Carol Kaye
Realtor -
Tyrone Borden Sr.
Choir Prisoner -
Lawrence Scott
Choir Prisoner -
Jennifer Nicole Lee
Trainer -
Mike Benitez
Patient "Moaner" -
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Oliver Jay
Bouncer -
Rubber Doll
Dancer -
Nikki Benz
Dancer -
Jessica Dykstra
Dancer -
Vannessa Nevader
Dancer -
Andrea Bennetti
Dancer -
Courtney O'Connor
Dancer -
Gwendalyn Barker
Dancer -
Irina Kazakova
Contortionist -
William J. Erfurth
Miami-Dade Officer -
Rey Hernandez
Police Officer -
Charlie Johnson Jr.
Police Officer -
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All Critics (173) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (85) | Rotten (88) | DVD (2)
The first hour may be Bay's career high point: it's fast, freaky, gloriously tasteless and startlingly pointed in its attacks on western insecurity, shallowness and greed.
Top CriticIn between scenes of the muscleheads torturing their victim, Bay indulges his taste for treating women as sluts and grisly brutality as a nifty excuse for a cheap laugh.
Now [Bay] hits new levels of both artistry and sleaziness in the black comedy Pain & Gain, which I strongly recommend if you don't overvalue taste, subtlety, and moral decency. I liked it.
This crude and ugly entertainment is as crass as everything this depressingly successful filmmaker has done.
It's official. Michael Bay, director of the Transformers clobberfests, knows how to make movies about humans, too. The problem is, he thinks humans are robots.
It may be the best movie Michael Bay's ever made. And suggests that, if you just kept his toys put away a little longer, someday he might even make a better one.
Michael Bay's lurid crime comedy Pain & Gain is as excessively pumped-up as you would imagine, a berserk, overblown action movie on steroids.
Pain & Gain is Michael Bay's best film yet, fusing his high-octane and in-your-face directing style with pitch black comedy that makes for the funniest film of 2013.
Lugo and his confederates feitishized the human body, were steeped in misogyny, and had scant intelligence, emotional or otherwise. Their story is brought to the screen by Michael Bay.
This is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson straining every sinew to deliver the heavy duty performance of his career.
Might this be the best Michael Bay film ever? We know what you're thinking. But we mean it in a good way.
A movie in which women are either pouting, flesh-baring sluts or morbidly obese figures of mockery with terrible personal hygiene, where rampant homophobia is deemed funny and laddish, and where crude racial stereotyping is acceptable.
The closest Michael Bay's natural style for flash really feels like an organic extension and expression of the material's narrative and characters rather than mere surface gloss.
[Bay] tries to be funny, and it turns out to be even more brutal, loathsome and crude than his previous efforts.
The performances are first class and help make you warm to the lunkheaded trio against your better judgement.
The uneasy blend of comedy and ultra-violence will turn some viewers off but, if you can stomach it, you may find yourself curiously entertained.
Michael Bay's muscle-bound satire is Bad Boys on 'roids. And that's not a good thing.
Forgive me while I weep in despair. Pain and Gain is awful beyond imagining.
There's something inspired about putting Michael Bay in charge of a brazen action-comedy about gym-pumped knuckleheads who screw up their own criminal masterplan most royally.
Spirited and very funny, this movie should actually be rather disturbing since it's a true story about torture and murder.
Along with comedy dismemberings, farcical GBH and the barbecuing of human hands, the movie offers the equally gruesome spectacle of a metaphor being clubbed to death.
A scabrous satirical swipe at not only the knuckle-headed machismo the director seems so enthralled by, but also at an America crippled by consumerism.
Labelling a Michael Bay movie thoughtful is like calling Transformers cerebral...but this is a lot more stimulating than we've come to expect even if reverts to shoot 'em up type by the end of its pumped up running time.
A bleak, bitter, wicked pleasure that holds up the underpinnings of modern America - self-help, Jesus, and violence - for ridicule.
Ultimately, cinema is a form of entertainment and this picture does nothing but entertain.
Audience Reviews for Pain & Gain
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- Daniel Lugo: Sometimes God just fucks up your order and you gotta chow down on that shitty shame sandwich.
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- Daniel Lugo: My name is Daniel Lugo and I believe in fitness.
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- Daniel Lugo: I love my new home. My new neighborhood. And my little brat pack crew. I kept it real wit them lil mufuckas and they kept it real wit me.
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- Daniel Lugo: What are you lookin at you lil chubby broad? Don't eyeball me, boy. I see your mother driving up an down the street lookin at me. I'll be your stepfather by the week.
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- Victor Kershaw: What the fuck do you want?
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- Paul Doyle: Jesus Christ has blessed me with many gifts. One of them is knocking someone the fuck out!
Discussion Forum
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| Seems people hate micheal bay... | 36 days ago | 41 |
| I got no big problem with | 4 months ago | 35 |
| I Am Impeccably Ecstatic for This Films Release | 20 days ago | 30 |
| Rank Bay's films from best to worst | 16 days ago | 29 |
| Michael Bay's 2nd fresh movie???? | 30 days ago | 28 |
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