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Very disappointed :(

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

...just ended up being a bit violent/bloody for my taste, that's all....

Pain and gain.Michael Bay is a joke and should not be allowed behind a camera; and this film proves why. He was given a relatively decent cast of actors, an original script which was not only based on a.. whatever. This film doesn't even deserve me spending anymore time on it.

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.

I've seen this movie because a friend recommended it and it was a pretty good movie. The director, Michael Bay is a well know director for his films and this one was different then the others. Michale is known for the explosions in his movies but there isn't many in this movie. This movie was based on a true story in Florida that happened in 1995. The three main actors Mark Walhberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie came together to play a good role in the movie. The movie is based on a kidnapping, torture, and murder of several people by the body builders. They were tired of being who they were and tired of not being rich. They made a plan to kidnap a rich high class guy that didn't appreciate anything and torture him until he signs money over to them into their bank accounts. Mark was inspired in the movie by a motivational speaker and then got together with friends he made at the gym. They start running out of money in the movie and the cops are catching onto them especially with Dwanyes actor in the movie because he has a cocaine addiction. When mark tries to go to the bank and get his money out the cops are there and the downfall of the movie starts to begin where the cops start to catch onto them and there plan they had. Overall they movie was a good movie due to the great actors and they plot of the movie being based on a true story.