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Pain & Gain

Pain & Gain (Pain and Gain)

2013

Michael Bay

Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris ...

5.8

19,522

Comedy. Action A pair of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity"	NEU
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Bay can be a master of exuberant chaos, but here the violence mostly lands with a sickening thud, which is fitting, one supposes, but also ultimately numbing"	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"With 'Pain & Gain', his surprising true-crime comedy, Bay has finally decided to lighten up a bit"	POS
United States	Simon Abrams Chicago Sun-Times	"As ambitious and vibrant as it is ugly and scattershot, 'Pain & Gain' is the most charming Michael Bay movie in a long while (...) rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The story is told in a hammer-on-anvil manner that evinces no gift for social satire or sharp cultural insight"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It's Bay World. And after an hour of 'Pain & Gain', it felt more like 'Pain & Pain' (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"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 (...) Rating: ½ (out of four)"	NEG

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