KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

GoRichard7 I avoided this for 10 years... I enjoyed the game too much and didn't want to be disappointed. Here it is 10 years later and guess what ? I was freaking disappointed. Here are my thoughts on it, FYI there are no spoilers - "nothing" in this movie is worth spoiling.1. Number one warning : it is categorized as an "Action, Crime, Drama" and rated PG-13. - only the rating is appropriate. 2. If the goal is not to be like the game then you shouldn't use the title, character and style of the game - BTW this goal was totally achieved. 3. Without the title name, there is no reason to see this film - there was nothing memorable about this movie. 4. I will be remembering writer Beau Thorne and directed John Moore - if I ever see anything with their names on it, I'm running away screaming. 5. I saw this for free and I demanded my money back - I got $20 to go away and stop yelling.

ghenry-68928 Max Payne is inspired from a game with a same name, which tells us about the journey of a rogue police officer who are looking for a revenge over the death of his family. Directed by John Moore and starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis.The story begins with Max (played by Mark Wahlberg), a maverick cop, looking for revenge for the death of his family and partner. Later, he teamed up with beautiful and deadly Russian mobster, Mona Sax (played by Mila Kunis) to start his journey into the underworld to hunt Jack Lupino (played by Amaury Nolasco) down.First of all, for somebody who plays the game and quite fond of it, Max Payne fails miserably in capturing every parts that make the game interesting. The concept of a single man against the corruption of the system is never shown in the film. Rather than a journey of a simple hard-boiled detective, it simply devolved into mindless action flicks. They even misinterpreted the nightmares that Max had becoming some stupid supernatural elements with winged demons.The performance are sub-par, but you actually understand with it as probably the cast themselves has no idea what they should do during the take. We couldn't blame them at all. The actions are completely dull, and simply just try to emulate the bullet time effect with no success.It also looks as if a neo-noir film, with all edgy gritty more dark tone, but after you watch the half of the movie, you realized the story has no noir elements in it. They simply put the darken all the shots and call it a noir film.So overall, this movie is a disgrace and insult for everyone who take a look at this movie because they loved the game at the first place. But probably for somebody who never heard about Max Payne before, the movie could be your stupid action flick to watch.

Konstantin Belyakov For a screen adaptation this is too loose in terms of script. For a fresh new story about cop taking his revenge against drugs and conspiracy this is also too loose in terms of script. I won't join my voice with the chorus saying "this is not how it had been in the game". The lowest-rate reviews are of that kind. Yet, writers had to choose side. Which they did not. In terms of brand new movie this is simple: plot seems too much generic. Just another cop who takes revenge for his family against conspiracy and corruption. How many of that kind do we know? A lot.In terms of screen adaptation there's too little of Max Payne in this Max Payne movie. Yes, we've got picturesque scenes and precisely directed vignettes (more of the visual kind). But... you know, that is all. Not a movie of Max Payne, but a movie with a cameo of Max Payne. Some different story that takes place somewhere in those parts, and remarkable details glimpse to you now and then. Yet, a totally different story. Not only in script (god knows, that is not necessary) but in the terms of feeling. Bright sun, neat offices, cute family-driven premises are not the things that should surround us! Still... I can't say this is a bad movie. Everything but script seems supreme. To me, at least. I really like visuals. I think Mark Wahlberg is a fairly good Max Payne (except that brand stupid smile is lost). And I love how accurate and beautifully they depict weapons. and...Overall, if you can stand a stupid script, I think you will like this.

bkoganbing Watching Max Payne I did not realize it was based on a video game character until reading about it here. Then certain things began to make sense and I put myself in the place of the protagonist/hero that Mark Wahlberg plays. A lot of it made sense even to me who is of an age where one did not play video games in their formative years.Wahlberg's Max Payne is a detective down in cold case now. He requested a transfer there, not a plumb assignment but one that leaves you with a lot of time on your hands. Time enough to study cases and develop patterns and similarities if one is looking for some special killers. In this case it was Wahlberg's wife and daughter. The late wife wife worked for a pharmaceutical company and it was over her job that she was killed. They've developed a drug for the military which given to soldiers just eliminates fear from the equation. You can fight off just about anything except a directly fatal wound. It's also highly addictive and you'll do just about anything to get it. If you don't get it some dark fantasies come your way.I have to give credit to Mark Wahlberg here. This film maybe based on a video game fantasy but at no time does Wahlberg become a cartoon like caricature. He also gets some good support from Donal Logue as his former partner, Beau Bridges as the former head of security at the victim's job and one deadly female assassin in Mila Kunis. That woman is in a role far from the emptyheaded cheerleader she played in That Seventies Show. She's originally hunting Wahlberg thinking he might have been part of the killing of her sister who's gotten into that drug. But they join forces against the bad guys.Remember this film is a fantasy and for a mass audience and it's hardly Oscar material. Still I have to give credit to Wahlberg and the cast for putting some dimensions into cartoon like characters.