Pain & Gain (2013)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 136
Fresh: 61 | Rotten: 75
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: 40
Fresh: 19 | 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
Cast
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Mark Wahlberg
Daniel Lugo -
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Paul Doyle -
Anthony Mackie
Adrian Doorbal -
Tony Shalhoub
Victor Kershaw -
Ed Harris
Ed Du Bois, Ed Dubois -
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" Dubois -
Larry Hankin
Pastor Randy -
Tony Plana
Captain Lopez -
Peter Stormare
Dr. Bjornson -
Vivi Pineda
Detective Hayworth -
Ken Clement
Detective Costello -
Yolanthe Cabau van Kasber...
Barbara -
Brian Stepanek
Brad MacCalister -
Christopher Langstaff
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 Salesperson -
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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Tasty Reuben
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All Critics (136) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (75)
In 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.
Top CriticNow [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.
It's like a giant sculpture that is so strange and off-putting, it's instantly, intriguingly post-modern. Swept up in the film's pile-driving self-assurance, even Bay-haters may absorb the pain to enjoy the gain.
The lead trio might be physically imposing, but like their characters, the film is all brawn and no brains.
[Michael Bay] takes a stab at crafting politically incorrect satire, but his tone is so mean-spirited, it churns the stomach.
Sometimes you only know it's a comedy because familiar comic actors - [Tony] Shalhoub, Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong and Rebel Wilson - pop up amid the mayhem.
His slow-motion prowess and action-film chops add a surreal element, but Bay's camera leers at the world the same way his characters do. He wants to celebrate his "heroes" at the same time he's making fun of them, but his delivery gives him away.
That it comes from Michael Bay could well be its greatest asset - and its biggest liability, depending on how you feel about the 'Transformers' director.
Pain & Gain is a shockingly amoral movie yet occasionally rambunctious enough to make viewers overlook that.
His characters are aggravatingly idiotic, the mood is belligerent, and the pacing is erratic. But worst of all is the humor. Bay may be the least funny director alive.
Covered in an impenetrable layer of irony that evinces the smuggest imaginable contempt for the characters.
Why Michael Bay tried to make a dark comedy out of a heinous true crime is beyond me.
While I will always hate Bay, this is actually an okay movie.
Bay applies his action-on-steroids style to a movie about guys actually demented from doing too many steroids, taking his cinematic excesses to the next level.
A dark comedy about muscles, murder, and the American dream.
Bay could've paid for Pain & Gain with the spare hundreds he keeps around for cocaine straws.
Not able to get out of the way of a promising movie, Michael Bay, with the apparent support of scripters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, smothers the project in the sort of juvenile hijinks we had hoped he would skip this time around.
In this quirky, chaotic, dunderhead comedy caper, too much pain is inflicted for very little gain.
Full of great performances, and, sometimes, is amazingly compelling.
With its over the top beefcake humor and featuring Dwayne Johnson's most impressive acting to date, Pain & Gain is so much fun because it's so crass and so ludicrous.
[Casts] the fictional approximations of the real-life victims as somehow deserving their fate in an effort to create sympathy for its three bumbling anti-heroes. In other words it's an insult to true stories.
an R-rated, steroid-fueled Looney Tunes cartoon
Audience Reviews for Pain & Gain
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- Paul Doyle: Jesus Christ has blessed me with many gifts. One of them is knocking someone the fuck out!
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- Daniel Lugo: Snatch that Cabbage Patch!
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- Adrian Doorbal: What kind of warehouse did you say your friend had ?
- Daniel Lugo: Just a storage one why?
- Adrian Doorbal: Cause theres a whole lotta homo shit in here... A whole lotta homo shit.
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Seems people hate micheal bay... | 12 days ago | 37 |
| I got no big problem with | 29 days ago | 35 |
| I Am Impeccably Ecstatic for This Films Release | 46 days ago | 29 |
| A threeway love triangle between Wahlberg, The Rock, and Mackie | 57 days ago | 26 |
| Rank Bay's films from best to worst | 55 days ago | 25 |
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