Mark Wahlberg’s titular hero hasn’t cracked a smile in seven years. The surprise is that he makes the lonely cop seem half human with half a dozen words and a staggering amount of violence.
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11/14/08
Max Payne (2008)
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Reviews Counted:124
Fresh:22
Rotten:102
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: While it boasts some stylish action, Max Payne suffers severely from an illogical plot and overdirection.
Theatrical Release:14-11-2008
Synopsis: Rockstar Games' antihero Max Payne gets his own movie with this video game adaptation. Mark Wahlberg (THE DEPARTED) plays the titular cop who is still trying to get over the death of his family... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Director: John Moore
Reviews for Max Payne
Top CriticThis tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
11/14/08
Top CriticThis tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
11/14/08
Top CriticNo high-octane, fast-paced shoot ’em up this, Max Payne may well be the most tedious trip to a cinema you make all year. Truly, the minutes pass like hours. It’s akin to one of those straight-to-DVD titles you only ever find in petrol stations.
11/14/08
Top CriticIt would be far too easy to say that max pain sums up Mark Wahlberg’s latest lead role.
11/14/08
Top CriticThe occasional muzzle-flare of stylish violence, but that’s it. Dull, depressing and dragging its knuckles at 100 minutes, Max Payne misfires and Wahlberg’s leading-man jinx continues.
11/14/08
Director John Moore is clearly more interested in hot babes, body tattoos and slo-mo shootings than he is in story or characterisation. Max Payne offers Min Pleasure.
11/14/08
Among the best films adapted from videogames. Say no more.
11/14/08
Top CriticIf you can follow the plotlines of this swingeing approximation of the well-known video game of the same name, you are a better customer for John Moore’s spectacular thriller than I was.
11/14/08
Badly written, poorly acted and surprisingly dull action thriller that substitutes loud gunfire for thrills and doesn't bother to develop the characters beyond their video game origins.
11/14/08
Mark Wahlberg glooms about the land in the latest computer-game makeover, a noir action thriller of such scowling, benighted violence that it could send manic depressives over the edge and make newcomers to that condition of us all.
11/14/08
John Moore directs the hell out of the action, while Jonathan Sela’s glistening photography captures the snow and rain that fall on these bloody New York streets. But you’d have to be on crack not to guess the ‘surprise’ finale.
11/14/08
Top CriticA massive waste of time and a glaring missed opportunity.
11/14/08
The film combines ferocious self-importance with lashings of really nasty, unreflective violence.
11/14/08
Top CriticLoud and completely devoid of wit or interest, this empty-headed action movie looks terrific thanks to its big budget and heavily stylised visuals. But it's impossible to care about anything that happens.
11/14/08
Max Payne? Maximum Payne in the butt more like.
11/14/08
I didn't hate Max Payne, but it's hard to summon up strong feelings of any kind about something so slick, remote and vacuum-packed you barely feel you've seen it.
11/14/08
Top CriticMark Wahlberg shifts the dank micro-climate that is his charisma to Max Payne, a "neo noir" action thriller which means it snows a lot in murky New York.
11/13/08
Although dialogue may be less than stimulating in 'Max Payne,' its powerful images relate what needs to be said -- and this approach worked for me.
10/18/08
Visually compelling and with a cast willing to make the effort so that we'll take it seriously, this is a solid action film.
10/17/08
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