I didn't hate Max Payne, but it's hard to summon up strong feelings of any kind about something so slick, remote and vacuum-packed you barely feel you've seen it.
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11/14/08
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
A massive waste of time and a glaring missed opportunity.
11/14/08
Max Payne? Maximum Payne in the butt more like.
11/14/08
The occasional muzzle-flare of stylish violence, but that’s it. Dull, depressing and dragging its knuckles at 100 minutes, Max Payne misfires and Wahlberg’s leading-man jinx continues.
11/14/08
Director John Moore is clearly more interested in hot babes, body tattoos and slo-mo shootings than he is in story or characterisation. Max Payne offers Min Pleasure.
11/14/08
No high-octane, fast-paced shoot ’em up this, Max Payne may well be the most tedious trip to a cinema you make all year. Truly, the minutes pass like hours. It’s akin to one of those straight-to-DVD titles you only ever find in petrol stations.
11/14/08
Top CriticIt would be far too easy to say that max pain sums up Mark Wahlberg’s latest lead role.
11/14/08
Top CriticMark Wahlberg glooms about the land in the latest computer-game makeover, a noir action thriller of such scowling, benighted violence that it could send manic depressives over the edge and make newcomers to that condition of us all.
11/14/08
This tired, neutered action thriller won’t cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.
11/14/08
Top CriticIf you can follow the plotlines of this swingeing approximation of the well-known video game of the same name, you are a better customer for John Moore’s spectacular thriller than I was.
11/14/08
Badly written, poorly acted and surprisingly dull action thriller that substitutes loud gunfire for thrills and doesn't bother to develop the characters beyond their video game origins.
11/14/08
Loud and completely devoid of wit or interest, this empty-headed action movie looks terrific thanks to its big budget and heavily stylised visuals. But it's impossible to care about anything that happens.
11/14/08
Mark Wahlberg shifts the dank micro-climate that is his charisma to Max Payne, a "neo noir" action thriller which means it snows a lot in murky New York.
11/13/08
The moment of the film when you should be going "oh my god I can't believe it," you're thinking, "I wonder if we could sneak into the end of Beverly Hills Chihuahua."
11/09/08
I yperstylizarismeni kinimatografikotita poy koybalaei o Max Payne os paradosi sta video games, sta ohi kai toso ikana na ti heiristoyn heria toy Moore, metatrepetai oriaka se parodia, poy plakonei tin tainia toy me mia akathorista atheliti hlapatsa dithe
11/08/08
What are you going to do? It's cool to be the first game to put players in control of a John Woo gunfight, but to be yet another movie waving double guns in slow motion, not so much.
11/02/08
Slaloms between gritty action and comic-book noir before skidding out into overblown fantasy. The plotline is weak and stretched-out. As the end nears, the pacing gets choppy. But by then, Max Payne lost that important sidekick, Minnie Pleasure.
10/30/08
Take in the pleasure, because Max Payne is the most beautiful video game adaptation yet.
10/28/08
Elegaic where it should be electrifying, dundering where it should be sharp, Payne is lovely to look at and that's about it
10/25/08
As revenge films go, 'Max Payne' is a little less than average.
10/23/08
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