Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

yvesdemaria such an entertaining and fun movie!!The actors play incredibly well, specially mark wahlberg and the rock, mark wahlberg being so motivated and so serious about everything all the time and the rock playing the former inmate which found god both were so funny and acted extremely well.All the time the misunderstandings between characters was so hilarious, the satire, irony and dark humor are absolutely on spot.Quite some people criticized the movie because it is a true story, however there are tons of movies about true story with serial killers or dramatic events so i think it doesn't affect the movie.9/10 , don't hesitate to watch it you wont regret it.

rjm-geo Watching this movie I had a sudden insight, hitting me like a van driven by Dwayne Johnson: the Transformers are not bad movies because Michael Bay is a bad director. They are the way they are because that's what people pay to see and Michael Bay can make that kind of movie better than anyone else.Pain and Gain is a movie that Michael Bay wanted to make, and it's a great movie because he didn't need to make it a blockbuster and he didn't have to go for a lowest common denominator audience. Left to make a fun, small scale movie, he demonstrates just how good he can be.The story of Daniel Lugo and co. is horrifying and lurid, but also entertaining and fascinating. For the movie to work the protagonists can be portrayed as neither sympathetic nor repulsive. It's a demonstration of just how good Bay is that he nails this perfectly from start to finish.The events are not so much based on a true story, so much as it is a faithful re-telling of the actual events. They are already so crazy that there was no need to add anything - the main changes are some compression for dramatic tightness.Cast is game, very game. Ed Harris is particularly good in the role of Ed DuBois, the private detective who is our sole window of sanity in the film. Tony Shalhoub also hits just the right mix of abrasive jerk and sympathetic victim as Victor Kershaw.The camera work is lush, Miami Vice style, full of saturated and warm tones. Editing is tight. Soundtrack well chosen.All-in-all I can't knock a point off. It perfectly succeeds what it set out to do. The subject matter may not be to everyone's taste, the combination of fascination and horror, but no one should deny the skillful execution of the telling of it.

mrbassman777 This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I find it incredulous to believe that human beings could actually be as stupid as they are portrayed to be in this film. By the time I had watched three-fourths of the movie, I wanted bad things to happen to the three protagonists, as they would deserve whatever came their way for being utter morons. The film is filled with crude humor and vulgar language, that just comes off as being in poor taste. This movie is a monument to the glorification of crime and getting what you want without earning it. I would not recommend this film, it is unwatchable.

Dominic LeRose Based on the true story of Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) a Miami bodybuilder who wants to live the American dream. He wants the money that other people have. So he enlists the help of fellow bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) and ex-convict, Christian bodybuilder Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson). Their kidnapping and extortion scheme of a rich jerk goes terribly wrong since they have muscles for brains and they're left to try to hold onto the elusive American dream without ruining their lives. Did I mention the guy who brought the loud and obnoxious "Transformer" movies, Michael Bay, directed this? Bay, surprisingly, turns the tides on his ordinary style of robust filmmaking and creates a clever and interesting movie. Bay doesn't glorify what these pinhead criminals are doing. He makes us laugh at them and helps us understand how pathetically dumb these dreamers were. He lets us laugh along with them for sometime, but in the end he makes us think hard about why in the world these idiots went as far as they did in order to be successful. Many critics slammed this film just because of who dirceetd it. If these people would dig deeper into how Bay set this film up, I bet you there wouldn't be so many one-star ratings for "Pain and Gain." A big issue, however, is the pervasive sexuality that didn't serve a function. It was used to be erotic in many scenes and wasn't necessary for the plot. With lots of funny slow motion shots, the laced message of capitalistic greed, hard work, and how great girls' bodies are, Bay does get a little over the top in exploiting a message about the American dream. Michael Bay is an entertainer, not an artist, which is what he proves with this film. You'll get a wave of energy over your head with his unguarded directing and the actors silly performances, but you won't get the sensation of a brilliant message about greed that other directors do.