Pain and Gain
The manager of a Gym decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream so a trio of bodybuilders got caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme.
9 December 1969, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 April 1985, Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
17 January 1968, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
3 September 1951, Havana, Cuba
13 July 1969, Detroit, Michigan, USA
December 16, 2016
The most shocking thing about the new Michael Bay film is... not the orange, grunting criminals pumping a) iron, b) fists and c) other people, but the gradual realisation that this could be Bay's most intellectual film yet.
June 21, 2016
Maybe he's trying to do 'GoodFellas'-style dark comedy (the copious voice-overs would certainly suggest it), but put as charitably as possible, Bay is no Scorsese.
May 02, 2013
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.
May 05, 2015
Fargo for jerks.
April 26, 2013
This crude and ugly entertainment is as crass as everything this depressingly successful filmmaker has done.
August 27, 2013
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.
April 26, 2013
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.
April 26, 2013
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.
July 14, 2016
Not for the kiddies, this immensely entertaining flick is a hard-R romp through seedy South Florida.
June 27, 2014
An often hilarious black comedy with a nicely embedded moral.
January 03, 2014
Pain & Gain weighs about 700 pounds when it ought to weigh 2.
April 16, 2016
Bay's worst film to date and the biggest piece of evidence yet in the case against him.
