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Max Payne (2008)
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Reviews Counted:128
Fresh:21
Rotten:107
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: While it boasts some stylish action, Max Payne suffers severely from an illogical plot and overdirection.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Theatrical Release: Oct 17, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $40.6M
Synopsis: Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Director: John Moore
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Aug 3, 2009
The willfully absurd action sequences help the movie slog along, but slog it does, right through to the obligatory after-credits scene to establish the possibility of a franchise.
Apr 7, 2009
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.
Mar 24, 2009
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.
Jan 20, 2009
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.
Jan 18, 2009
Imagine The Constant Gardener after a frontal lobotomy, and that's basically Max Payne in a nutshell.
Nov 26, 2008
[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...
Nov 19, 2008
This tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
Nov 14, 2008
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.
Nov 14, 2008
Among the best films adapted from videogames. Say no more.
Nov 14, 2008
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.
Nov 14, 2008
The film combines ferocious self-importance with lashings of really nasty, unreflective violence.
Nov 14, 2008
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January 21, 2009:
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January 19, 2009:
RT on DVD: Max Payne, Saw V, King Kong on Blu-ray
Mark Wahlberg brings maximum pain to DVD this week in the critically-punished Max Payne, although new horror titles Saw V and Repo! The Genetic Opera didn't fare much better on the Tomatometer. DVD...
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October 19, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Max feels no Payne at No. 1
With the elections just a few weeks away, W. seemed ready to rule the box office this weekend, but it was Fox's weekend to break out of its slump, with two of its openers finding their way into the...
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October 16, 2008:
Box Office Guru Preview: Moviegoers to Feel the Payne
A video game, a novel, and even the current commander-in-chief all get the big-screen treatment as Hollywood banks on known brands to make multiplex cash registers ring in hopes of a fourth...
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September 30, 2008:
MPAA Gives Max Payne a PG-13
It took a little bit of back and forth, but "Max Payne" director John Moore has apparently got the PG-13 rating he wanted from the MPAA.
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