VarietyBay can be a master of exuberant chaos, but here the violence mostly lands with a sickening thud, which is fitting, one supp...
Hollywood ReporterA ham-fisted, thick-skulled comic caper about bodybuilders-turned-criminals which, like its three protagonists, fully lives ...
Entertainment WeeklyWith Pain & Gain, his surprising true-crime comedy, Bay has finally decided to lighten up a bit.
The New York TimesIt all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and...
Chicago Sun-TimesAs ambitious and vibrant as it is ugly and scattershot, Pain & Gain is the most charming Michael Bay movie in a long while.
The Philadelphia InquirerBay doesn't seem to realize the film has gotten away from him. He's still trying to maintain the same jaunty tone even after...
New York PostA dizzying lowlife saga that's fast, smart, wicked, sort of ambitious and blazingly ironic.
The New YorkerA brash, vulgar, exhilaratingly vigorous, spontaneously complex hoot of a true-crime movie.
New York Daily NewsWahlberg and Johnson are the saving graces of an in-your-face movie about weightlifters who kidnap, extort and dismember the...
Wall Street JournalNot only hollow and assaultive, but frenzied, madly violent and skullnumbingly loud.
Los Angeles TimesIt makes for some stupid/slap-shtick fun of the Stooges variety -- that is, if Larry, Curly and Moe had been hunky gym rats ...
Salon ArtsMichael Bay sends a clear message to those of us who've been making fun of him: He's been in on the joke the whole time.
Richard RoeperKudos to Bay and his screenwriters for making sure we're laughing at them, not with them.
New York MagazineNow Bay hits new levels of both artistry and sleaziness in the black comedy Pain & Gain, which I strongly recommend if you d...
Rolling StoneIn between scenes of the muscleheads torturing their victim, Bay indulges his taste for treating women as sluts and grisly b...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Christopher Markus
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie
Release: April 26, 2013
Writer: Christopher Markus
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie
Release: April 26, 2013
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