For [Michael Bay], storytelling exists only to justify senselessly bashing some big shiny noisy stuff into other big noisy shiny stuff till your ears bleed for mercy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

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.

| Jun 21, 2016

While Pain & Gain often frustrates, Bay's overwhelming cinematic sense is undeniable.

| Jun 6, 2014

Pain & Gain weighs about 700 pounds when it ought to weigh 2.

| Jan 3, 2014

Rather than take its true crime caper inspiration seriously, it pawns off its real-life players as dumb action figures and has little respect for the victims involved either.

| Nov 4, 2013

Might this be the best Michael Bay film ever? We know what you're thinking. But we mean it in a good way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2013

Michael Bay's muscle-bound satire is Bad Boys on 'roids. And that's not a good thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2013

Forgive me while I weep in despair. Pain and Gain is awful beyond imagining.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 29, 2013

There's something inspired about putting Michael Bay in charge of a brazen action-comedy about gym-pumped knuckleheads who screw up their own criminal masterplan most royally.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2013

Along with comedy dismemberings, farcical GBH and the barbecuing of human hands, the movie offers the equally gruesome spectacle of a metaphor being clubbed to death.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2013

Michael Bay goes back to a Bad Boys budget and a big boys' rating, for a true-life crime story that's inconsistent and frenetic, but also funny and wilfully outrageous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 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.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | May 2, 2013

It's a moderately funny, largely deplorable narrative with entirely unlikable leads, but thanks to its true roots, it gets away with it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 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.

| Apr 26, 2013

In walking the impossible tightrope of violent satire, Bay succeeds by calling up one of cinema's most powerful and least-understood languages: the relationship the audience has with the people onscreen before the film even begins.

| Apr 26, 2013

This crude and ugly entertainment is as crass as everything this depressingly successful filmmaker has done.

| Apr 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.

| Original Score: C | Apr 26, 2013

What burns me up about Pain & Gain is that the trailer, and even the excerpts shown on 온라인카지노추천, make it look like fun.

| Apr 26, 2013

For Michael Bay fans, Pain & Gain may be his masterpiece, where the director's collision of testosterone-fueled action and blunt wits is perfectly in keeping with the subject.

| Original Score: 69/100 | Apr 26, 2013