Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1/4
Painfully boring and not so funny
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 02/16/2015
"You know why habit rhymes with rabbit? Because your life goes down a rabbit hole."
(Irrelevant quote from Lugo and an indication what to expect from this movie)
Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Mackie and especially Dwayne Johnson in a movie about three body-builders who are involved in a kidnapping which they screw up completely.
A great action picture that can provide some distraction on a Saturday night. That's what I imagined since that was the only thing I knew about this movie. And judging the poster it could be an entertaining movie with three mindless hulks (Wahlberg in a lesser degree, but that's compensated by Johnson).
After fifteen minutes I actually began to wonder what I was watching and it seemed to me as if those 3 guys wanted to make an absurd comedy. With the …
Rating of
0.5/4
This amount of stupidity should be punished.
memento_mori - wrote on 02/05/2014
This film's title is very ironic. Because all I felt during my viewing of it, was pain. And I gained nothing from it watching its insulting two hours of bad acting and bad filmmaking.
I won't even bother with an introduction, because I am angry and eager to get to the point:
Every single scene in this film is simply wrong. I say that with the fullest confidence, because if you are a person who is actually aware of and has chosen to research the events which Michael Bay has shamefully decided to exploit and glamorize in his new action-satire disaster of a film, then you will most likely agree with me.
This is the director's worst effort, by far, if you can even call Michael Bay a direction by now.
Remember all the hype leading up to this film? How so many people were impressed by …
Rating of
2/4
Just pain, but no gain
sreekirch - wrote on 08/17/2013
Directed by Michael Bay
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson
Michael Bay’s adaptation of the true story just has pain, but no gain. If you have patience of watching a dialog driven comedy film with The Rock in it, just make sure to be having interest right from start. I appreciate Bay for taking a break from his regular cataclysmic summer escapism films. Nothing inspiring, just a chance taken for a comedy film. Rock Factor: Weak. Punch lines: Neither. Action: Amateurish. Performances: Childish. Bay uses Wahlberg and Johnson to play the gym trainers who do extortions, kidnappings and killings. Thankfully Johnson played the Rundown guy (I won’t kill people). But he tried to be bad. Bad judgment: Bay misfires my thinking. Disgusting fact: Despite, many attempts of killing, the …
Rating of
2/4
you won’t believe it until you see it
Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 04/28/2013
Pain and Gain may objectively be the worst movie ever made. Its Ideas are cliché, its style is over the top and almost every frame in it contains something at least offensive if not worse. I for one enjoyed the heck out of it.
I am fascinated by this movie. Director Michael Bay, the man who is responsible for what many, including myself, call some of the worst movies of all time, made this as a personal picture. By that I mean he threatened to drop out of Transformers 4 if the studio would not green light this flick. The fact that this offensive stylized crime drama is his Idea of a legitimate art film is down right boggling.
From all of the interviews I’ve seen, this is Bay’s attempt to make an artistic film with an interesting message, yet he still brings his usual …
Rating of
2/4
Pain & Gain
lastonetoleave - wrote on 04/27/2013
Pain & Gain (2013) Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) works as a personal trainer. He’s a fairly happy guy, but he wants the good life and he wants it now. So Daniel comes up with a sure fire plan to make all his dreams come true; just kidnap Victor (Tony Shalhoub), a wealthy client, and extort money from him. He enlists two of his bodybuilding friends (Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) to help. So, what could go wrong? Uh, just about everything. I liked the first part of the film, which has a very stylized look, and Wahlberg can be very funny playing the earnest but somewhat dumb personal trainer. Also, some of the scenes that set up why Lugo wants to do the kidnapping are funny. The scenes with Dwayne Johnson and Tony Shalhoub are well done and quite creative, but I hated the last …
