Max Payne (2008)

Posted : 3 weeks, 5 days ago at Oct 26 9:36

Whenever someone decides to set out and make a film out of a videogame, there will be two things; 1) An absurd fan outrage if the movie isn't directed by Martin Scorsese or something, and 2) Positive expectations from most fans after seeing the first poster/trailer/whatever. I personally always try to remain unbiased when it comes to some of these adaptations, but in the case of Max Payne, it's sort of impossible in one aspect of the movie: The story. The games, especially part 2, have excellent storylines for the writer of this flick to draw from. The storyline in part 2 for example is adult, perfected, and respects the player as an intellectual individual, not so much as a gamer as most other games with good stories do (Fahrenheit, here's looking at you and your lack of a second act). Th...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 7 7:23

Max Payne is based upon the game franchise of the same name. I was sceptical when I heard of a film adaptation of the homicide detective's exploits, partly for two reasons. Firstly, I am a big fan of Max Payne, and thus wouldn't take kindly to a massacring of one of my personal heroes! Second, the distinguishing feature of the Max Payne series is bullet time, which has already been showcased in several other films with remarkably bigger budgets. The film posters managed to enhance my anticipation. It looked like the potent noir theme of the games had been transferred across to the film. I was quietly confident about the casting of Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne, but other casting decisions weren't so easy to swallow. The transfer of Jim Bravura from an old white guy who fills a role as you...Read more

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 1 year ago at Nov 16 20:30

''I don't know about Heaven, but I believe in angels.'' Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation... Mark Wahlberg: Max Payne Let's start of by saying I rally loved the Max Payne video games, in their simplistic nature of fast paced shooting accompanied by an interesting concept of Matrix styled Bullet Time shoot outs. Also a hero with so much pain and anguish, so much so he has to take pain killers to numb himself from the experience. So how does the film live up to these expectations everyone asks? Well quite frankly it does not in the slightest match any of the games. T...Read more

Rating : 3/10

Posted : 1 year ago at Oct 28 4:59

I didn't have many expectations going in to see Max Payne, never having played the game. I left the cinema disappointed because the movie held such promise that failed to fully deliver because of an illogical story. This was mostly due to bad editing - there were many scenes that dragged on for what felt like forever and other scenes that felt out of place. It got to the point where I wanted to scream at the screen "Get on with it!". Back to the story - the mythological aspects of the drug hallucinations were actually more interesting but it wasn't really developed and was abandoned in favor of something else (I won't go into the details but yeah, the plot twist is so obvious). Another thing that had me confused was who the hell Mila Kunis was supposed to be. She appears, she helps ...Read more

Rating : 4/10

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Oct 19 22:02

When the film first began, I was very skeptical as to how good it was going to be, or how bad. It seemed like it was going to be one of those poor video game films, kind of like the Resident Evil's or Doom. The verdict is, It was pretty average. The action was pretty limited, but they had a lot of the great characters from the game, and they all did well. The only character flaw that I was able to catch, was Jim Bravura. He was played by Ludacris, where in the game he is white. So I was rather confused. As for the story, it was alright and had plenty of scenes from the game. also there were plenty of flaws. I noticed a few dull and unnecessary scenes. They either tried too hard, or Mark Wahlberg just wasn't the right character. What I was looking for in this film, was for it to be r...Read more

Rating : 6/10