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Pain and Gain
A manager of a gym plots an extortion scheme so he recruits musclemen as accomplices but everything about the plan goes really awry.
2 March 1980, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
13 October 1979, Maryland, USA
27 November 1960, Tappan, New York, USA
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
25 March 1976, Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Semey, Kazakhstan]
July 14, 2016
Not for the kiddies, this immensely entertaining flick is a hard-R romp through seedy South Florida.
April 16, 2016
Bay's worst film to date and the biggest piece of evidence yet in the case against him.
April 26, 2013
This crude and ugly entertainment is as crass as everything this depressingly successful filmmaker has done.
June 27, 2014
An often hilarious black comedy with a nicely embedded moral.
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.
May 05, 2015
Fargo for jerks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 03, 2014
Pain & Gain weighs about 700 pounds when it ought to weigh 2.
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.