jinXed by JaNx
Senior Member
I really couldn't find one good thing about the movie. This could be because i went into it expecting a serious, drama/suspense movie but Max Payne never fully decided what type of movie it wanted to be. I seriously had high hopes when i heard that Marky Mark was playing Max Payne. I don't know if you want to call him an A-lister but i thought for certain that he could bring some type of depth to the psychologically bruised badass. What i got, though was a monotone character that had no development what so ever. Everybody involved with the movie seemed so damned bored. The noir elements were executed very poorly and came off as artificial.
Hey, i may love me some action but i don't need explosions and exploding heads to enjoy a movie but a movie based on the video games, Max Payne, well...,i expect some action. This movie was incredibly slow. The plot was just stupid when it wasnt tripping over itself. There was little to NO action in this entire movie. Ok, now that would have been forgivable had the plot actually been engaging like the video game. Why they didn't just adapt the story from the first game i will never understand. If there were ever a video game that was made to be adapted into film it was Max Payne. I hate to shit on this movie so much because it is nothing more than a video game adaptation but with an excellent noir story already constructed in the video games and an Actor like Marky Mark. A quality product should have been produced.