This tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
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11/14/08
Max Payne (2008)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:2
Rotten:10
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
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticJohn 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 CriticAmong the best films adapted from videogames. Say no more.
11/14/08
Top CriticMark 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.
11/14/08
Top CriticThe film combines ferocious self-importance with lashings of really nasty, unreflective violence.
11/14/08
Top CriticI 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 CriticThis tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
11/14/08
Top CriticThe moviegoers are passive hostages on a long ride they've taken so many times before. So gameboys are advised to man their PlayStations this weekend; action-movie fans in search of red meat can wait for the inevitably more graphic DVD version.
10/17/08
Top CriticMiserable, in every sense of the word.
10/17/08
Top CriticMax Payne is content to be an efficient vehicle for the delivery of a familiar range of sensations, some of which almost rise to the level of feelings.
10/17/08
Top CriticMoore artfully blends vidgame and film-noir aesthetics while editor Dan Zimmerman’s measured rhythms yield a more coherent, less frenzied work than one might expect from the source material.
10/17/08
Top CriticThe emotional underpinnings and psychological depths of great detective fiction get tossed aside for a wallow in stylistic excess.
10/17/08
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