Rotten
Pain & Gain weighs about 700 pounds when it ought to weigh 2.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Pain & Gain
Their American dream is bigger than yours.
2013 · 2h 10m · R
Action, Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Michael Bay
Overview
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
Director and cast
- Michael Bay Director
- Mark Wahlberg as Daniel Lugo
- Dwayne Johnson as Paul Doyle
- Anthony Mackie as Adrian Doorbal
- Tony Shalhoub as Victor Kershaw
- Ed Harris as Ed DuBois
- Rob Corddry as John Mese
- Bar Paly as Sorina Luminita
- Rebel Wilson as Ramona Eldridge
- Ken Jeong as Johnny Wu
- Michael Rispoli as Frank Griga
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Rotten
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.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
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.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
This crude and ugly entertainment is as crass as everything this depressingly successful filmmaker has done.
Tom Charity, CNN.com
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