A thrill-less video game adaptation.
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10/21/08
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
Watching Max Payne is painful to the max.
10/21/08
I am still a big Mark Wahlberg fan but his choice of roles is beginning to try my patience
10/21/08
The fans attracted to Max Payne will readily leave any disbelief by the doors as the action ramps up.
10/21/08
Every shot, every edit is well thought out. But in the end, I didn't care about anyone.
10/21/08
Your quintessential guy film. If you have any significant level of testosterone in your blood stream, you'll find something to enjoy about it.
10/21/08
Simple, it is as by-the-books formulaic as can be, and there's not a surprise around that the corner that isn't obvious immediately.
10/21/08
This just in, Video Game movies still suck.
10/20/08
No. Just...no.
10/19/08
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
Max Payne spends a great deal of time building a unique visual look--at the expense of narrative and character development.
10/18/08
It snows one day in Max Payne, rains like crazy the next, and then it snows again. But any way you slice it, the movie's all wet.
10/18/08
A dumb film with a great conceptual hook from a director who visualizes better than he dramatizes.
10/18/08
The filmmakers aim their cynicism more at us than at any government or drug company.
10/18/08
Video game adaptation is bloody but boring.
10/17/08
That the freaky angels all over the ads aren't even real is akin to if audiences had flocked to see Jurassic Park back in 1993 and discovered that the dinosaurs only appeared in a couple brief dream sequences.
10/17/08
There were moments that needed some explanation and characters that needed a quite a bit of fleshing out. But it was violent and fun and since that's why I played the game, I left the theater satisfied.
10/17/08
I don’t have a problem with brainless entertainment playing it safe and overloading on clichés but Max Payne makes the fatal mistake of being clichéd and boring.
10/17/08
Sexy girls and lots of automatic weapons are involved in an occasionally coherent plot.
10/17/08
You can't help but wonder where the fine actor in The Departed and even Invincible has gone. It's not been a good year for Wahlberg: First The Happening, and now this.
10/17/08
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