Max Payne. Epic Fail.
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11/07/08
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Oct 16, 2008 Wide
US 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
Reviews for Max Payne
Top CriticThis trashy film is a case of big guns and small brains.
10/24/08
Top CriticThere simply has yet to be a decent film adapted from a video game. Why studios persist is a testament to the lobotomised throngs who encourage them by paying to see this type of gleet.
10/17/08
Top CriticThis intense action thriller will be recalled for its exciting visuals and relentless action rather than its acting.
10/17/08
Top CriticThough the film's action scenes won't win awards for originality, they can't be faulted for either their scale or love of slo-mo.
10/17/08
Top CriticIt is stylish, slick, loud and empty as the producers wanted it to be.
10/17/08
Top CriticI never trust a film in which the protagonists have conversations or even arguments in the pouring rain -- without umbrellas.
10/09/08
Top CriticThere are guns blazing, mysterious winged creatures, a symbolic tattoo, an elusive blue elixir, an unresolved murder and big stunts, yet Max Payne is surprisingly lacklustre.
10/09/08
Top CriticPayneful
08/03/09
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.
04/07/09
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.
03/24/09
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
This tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
11/14/08
Top CriticJohn 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.
11/14/08
Among the best films adapted from videogames. Say no more.
11/14/08
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.
11/14/08
Top CriticThe film combines ferocious self-importance with lashings of really nasty, unreflective violence.
11/14/08
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