Pain & Gain
Their American dream is bigger than yours.
Their American dream is bigger than yours.
Action, Comedy, Crime
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2013
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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:
Cast:
Same Director
Details
Rated:
R
Runtime:
130 min
Release date:
18 Apr 2013
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$87,305,549
Awards:
4 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
This crude and ugly entertainment is as crass as everything this depressingly successful filmmaker has done.
– Tom Charity,
CNN.com,
26 Apr 2013
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,
26 Apr 2013
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,
2 May 2013
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,
27 Aug 2013
rotten:
Pain & Gain weighs about 700 pounds when it ought to weigh 2.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
3 Jan 2014