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Pain & Gain Reviews

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Steve Persall
Tampa Bay Times

Pain & Gain is a shockingly amoral movie yet occasionally rambunctious enough to make viewers overlook that.

Full Review Source: Tampa Bay Times | Original Score: C-

May 3, 2013
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media

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.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Original Score: 1/5

May 3, 2013
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Covered in an impenetrable layer of irony that evinces the smuggest imaginable contempt for the characters.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Original Score: 5/10

May 2, 2013
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)

Why Michael Bay tried to make a dark comedy out of a heinous true crime is beyond me.

Full Review Source: KWQC-TV (Iowa) | Original Score: 1/4

May 2, 2013
Bob Grimm
Reno News and Review

While I will always hate Bay, this is actually an okay movie.

Full Review Source: Reno News and Review | Original Score: 2.75/5

May 2, 2013
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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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.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | Original Score: 0.5/4

May 2, 2013
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | Original Score: 1/4

May 1, 2013
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

A dark comedy about muscles, murder, and the American dream.

Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | Original Score: 3/4

April 29, 2013
David Edelstein
Vulture
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I strongly recommend [it] if you don't overvalue taste, subtlety, and moral decency. I liked it.

Full Review Source: Vulture

April 29, 2013
Pete Vonder Haar
Houston Press

Bay could've paid for Pain & Gain with the spare hundreds he keeps around for cocaine straws.

Full Review Source: Houston Press | Original Score: 3/5

April 28, 2013
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

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.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | Original Score: 2/4

April 27, 2013
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate

In this quirky, chaotic, dunderhead comedy caper, too much pain is inflicted for very little gain.

Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate | Original Score: 4/10

April 27, 2013
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

Full of great performances, and, sometimes, is amazingly compelling.

Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | Original Score: 2.5/4

April 26, 2013
Chris Sawin
Examiner.com

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.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | Original Score: 7.5/10

April 26, 2013
Dave White
Movies.com

[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.

Full Review Source: Movies.com | Original Score: 0.5/5

April 26, 2013
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

an R-rated, steroid-fueled Looney Tunes cartoon

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Original Score: 3/5

April 26, 2013
Rob Vaux
Mania.com

You won't forget it easily; it just needs to find a better way to make its surprisingly pertinent points.

Full Review Source: Mania.com | Original Score: C+

April 26, 2013
Mike McGranaghan
Film Racket

Watching Pain & Gain is like having a stand-up comedian scream his entire act right into your year. After a while, it just becomes obnoxious and oppressive.

Full Review Source: Film Racket | Original Score: 2/4

April 26, 2013
Rick Bentley
Fresno Bee

At least when Moe hit Curly in the head with a hammer it wasn't the re-creation of a real crime.

Full Review Source: Fresno Bee | Original Score: D-

April 26, 2013
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine

April 26, 2013
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