Based on a Finnish shoot-em up video game, Max Payne is all style and little story, cheerless detective Max (Mark Wahlberg) drifting through a washed out and snowy New York in search of his wife's killer.
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03/24/09
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
It held my attention, which is more than I can say for some of the so-called "art films" that come out at the end of every year.
01/20/09
A detective story, a pharmaceutical miracle drug and winged creatures from some demonic dimension sprouting like weeds in the spring. Too much and too artificial.
01/18/09
Imagine The Constant Gardener after a frontal lobotomy, and that's basically Max Payne in a nutshell.
11/26/08
[A]ll [the] wide-open possibilities about where this story can go get so narrowed down into something banal and bleak and ordinary that you can hardly breathe with it...
11/19/08
The moment of the film when you should be going "oh my god I can't believe it," you're thinking, "I wonder if we could sneak into the end of Beverly Hills Chihuahua."
11/09/08
I yperstylizarismeni kinimatografikotita poy koybalaei o Max Payne os paradosi sta video games, sta ohi kai toso ikana na ti heiristoyn heria toy Moore, metatrepetai oriaka se parodia, poy plakonei tin tainia toy me mia akathorista atheliti hlapatsa dithe
11/08/08
Max Payne. Epic Fail.
11/07/08
What are you going to do? It's cool to be the first game to put players in control of a John Woo gunfight, but to be yet another movie waving double guns in slow motion, not so much.
11/02/08
Slaloms between gritty action and comic-book noir before skidding out into overblown fantasy. The plotline is weak and stretched-out. As the end nears, the pacing gets choppy. But by then, Max Payne lost that important sidekick, Minnie Pleasure.
10/30/08
Take in the pleasure, because Max Payne is the most beautiful video game adaptation yet.
10/28/08
Elegaic where it should be electrifying, dundering where it should be sharp, Payne is lovely to look at and that's about it
10/25/08
This trashy film is a case of big guns and small brains.
10/24/08
As revenge films go, 'Max Payne' is a little less than average.
10/23/08
As revenge films go, 'Max Payne' is a little less than average.
10/23/08
Max Payne is a junkyard dog of a film that is true to its video-game roots even as it transcends them.
10/23/08
Hey, it's Chris O'Donnell! Remember him? In an actual movie that's shown outside his own home! On a big screen that isn't built into his own living room wall! Where the viewer has a ticket he didn't receive because of a DUI!
10/23/08
...even less of a story than the videogame on which it is based...
10/23/08
Max Payne is one of those ludicrous action movies based on a videogame that’s all style and little substance.
10/22/08
Much happens -- some of it incomprehensible, most of it pointlessly preposterous and all of it slightly less involving than watching algae grow on a stagnant pond.
10/22/08
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