Max Payne is a junkyard dog of a film that is true to its video-game roots even as it transcends them.
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10/23/08
Max Payne (2008)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:2
Rotten:21
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: While it boasts some stylish action, Max Payne suffers severely from an illogical plot and overdirection.
Theatrical Release:Oct 17, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $40,632,110
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
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Reviews for Max Payne
Top CriticThe filmmakers aim their cynicism more at us than at any government or drug company.
10/18/08
Top CriticSexy girls and lots of automatic weapons are involved in an occasionally coherent plot.
10/17/08
Top CriticYou 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
Top CriticMaybe somebody decided the movie was already so convoluted and leaden that throwing in a few swooping, screeching valkyries could only help. They do not.
10/17/08
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 CriticMax just drags on as it drags you down. If you stay and watch the endless end credits, there's a short scene that hints a sequel is coming. That's what I call real pain.
10/17/08
Top CriticMaybe fans of the game will be okay with the cinematic adaptation but for those who aren't new to Max and his world, this isn't an impressive introduction. Clunky action, chaotic plotting, and embarrassing dialogue are not ways to impress newcomers.
10/17/08
Top CriticMark Wahlberg, who has proved himself a very capable actor, seems to have nominated himself for the Russell Crowe Lack of Charisma Award, and is running a pretty convincing campaign.
10/17/08
Top CriticA weak little sister to Sin City.
10/17/08
Top CriticNo amount of generosity could excuse the levels of ineptitude on display here.
10/17/08
Top CriticDark, moody, extremely twisted and hard to enjoy on any level.
10/17/08
Top CriticMiserable, in every sense of the word.
10/17/08
Top CriticMax Payne, game or movie, has precious little to say.
10/17/08
Top CriticThe movie is a series of glum interrogation scenes that lead nowhere special, with a not-quite-sci-fi urban murkiness that makes it look like someone was trying to shoot Blade Runner in Cleveland.
10/17/08
Top CriticMax Payne may be the worst movie of the year. The "may be" qualifier is only because the year isn't over yet.
10/17/08
Top CriticHonestly, you find yourself rooting against Payne's survival, even with a good actor in the hollow role. There's nothing inside the film's sour, slovenly spirit of vengeance.
10/17/08
Top CriticA straight-up action picture, and a rather bombastic, familiar one at that.
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
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