Max Payne - the movie.
>>Films | October 19th, 2008 @ 14:35 | by Jarmo PuskalaHaving said some nice things about the Max Payne trailer before I went to see the movie on thursday with cautious optimism.
No need to beat around the bush: it just wasn’t very good.
It was kind of a celluloid vampire; it looked good (and resembled something that once was good and god fearing), wore black and went trough all the motions. But in the end it had no soul and existed only to suck your blood.
As somebody said on Facebook, it’s been a while since I’ve played Max Payne, but I remember how the game made me feel and this movie didn’t feel anything like it. The film looked amazingly like I remember the game looking, but the feeling wasn’t there. The plot, while it took the basics from the game, was 3/4 cliche and 1/4 incredibly stupid. But I did love the Valkyries (not the look, the idea).
Personally, I think that a film about Max Payne should have been uncompromised homage to film noir. This wasn’t.
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October 20th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
i suspect the storyline for Max Payne is a lot more exciting when it’s happening in the form of a video game… except for those few exciting parts that i already saw in the preview, it was a snoozefest
October 21st, 2008 at 7:20 am
game based movie it is. Not like the game it was interesting to see the movie. Revenge moments are the ones I truly enjoyed. But didn’t understand the after life situations. Like science faction. Other than that tremendously made movie watch it my self at http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com clear and easy for me it is.