Pain & Gain
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 26, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
20
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 25, 2013
It's Bay World. And after an hour of Pain & Gain, it felt more like "Pain & Pain." Read full review
33
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezApr 24, 2013
Pain & Gain fails at being an entertaining and ridiculously fun Michael Bay movie and curdles into something much more tone deaf and obnoxious. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 25, 2013
The whole thing is played for laughs that almost never come. To be sure, the film has its moments, but they’re few and far between. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianMarc MohanApr 25, 2013
Bay seems to have been gunning for something along the lines of "Blood Simple" or "A Simple Plan," but Pain & Gain is just plain simple. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrApr 25, 2013
Pain & Gain, a jokey but fatally tone-deaf true-crime caper, plays like “Fargo” for idiots. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinApr 24, 2013
Any pretensions of satire, moral ambiguity, or social commentary get lost in a hurricane of empty, mindless spectacle. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichApr 28, 2013
It would be kind to call this satire; what it comes off as is a pummeling, testosterone-fueled sensory assault that the film then makes minor variations on for two very long hours. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyApr 22, 2013
The story is told in a hammer-on-anvil manner that evinces no gift for social satire or sharp cultural insight. Read full review
12
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 2, 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. Pain and Gain is personal all right. You leave these characters with the distinct impression that they're Bay's kind of people. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 25, 2013
Michael Bay's absurdist comedy is all pain, no gain and an utter monstrosity. It may be the most unpleasant movie I've ever seen, and I'm not forgetting "Freaks," which Pain & Gain resembles, come to think of it. Read full review
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