Max Payne

[AngryGumball]

not having playing the Max Payne games before.

Hi Movie you sucked worse than Doom. Heck even Super Mario Bros from more than a decade ago was more believeable.

great filming though nice colors and sharp pictures. but my god the story is the trash.

[FatuousTwat]

I actually enjoyed Doom. I just tried to think of it as a cheesy action/horror flick.

[lamaros]

Yeah Doom was ok. Better than AvP and other such shit that I compare it with.

[Riggswolfe]

I wanted to see this movie but then I read that the story was by a first time scriptwriter. Combine that with the supernatural stuff and I got "first time writer wants to change the storyline of the game and make it his." Max Payne is about 2 things: the bullet time and the noirish story.

I think this is why most video game movies suck btw. They change the story. If the story is good enough to make a game about it, leave the fucker alone and turn it into a movie. Admittedly some games don't have stories, but a lot of the ones being made into movies do.

[Nerf]

I finally got around to watching this (unrated director's cut) and don't see the hate.  Granted, it's been so long since I played Max Payne that I can't remember the storyline at all, but the movie was good.  It was a little slow at first, but it picked up near the end and I felt satisfied.  I think you all just hate movies.

[Bunk]

I didn't hate it, but I wasn't overly impressed by some of the casting choices. Mila Kunis as a tough, gun toting arms dealer?

[schild]

Saw it last week. It simply wasn't that good, and I'm overly tolerable of Mark Wahlberg.

[Oban]

Just watched it yesterday.  I have never been able to see Marky Marky as a tough guy.  Every time he pus on his serious face, it just looks like he is about to explode in to a fit of giggles.

I think it is either his cheeks or lower jawline.

That plus the fact that I never played the game really made the whole thing hard to watch let alone understand.

[Riggswolfe]

I watched it last night. I'm not sure where to start with what they did wrong but it wasn't Max Payne. It had none of the noir feel and very little action for what it should have been. It also had to many distractions like the black dude in the opening scenes who is apparently only there so the other guy can tell him about Max's wife and daughter. Show, don't tell people.

[Polysorbate80]

While watching it, my wife decided she wants a Mossberg 590 for Valentine's day, so the movie wasn't a total loss.

[JWIV]

I know now exactly how fucking much I loved the Max Payne games.  Enough to carry this movie and prevent me from hating it. 

[Viin]

Caught it on HBO last weekend and I liked it. Story fell apart there at the end, but still good imagery and stuff.

I'd like to see the Director's Cut, maybe it flows a bit better. I feel like a scene or two is missing from the last half of the movie.

[JWIV]

Caught it on HBO last weekend and I liked it. Story fell apart there at the end, but still good imagery and stuff.

I'd like to see the Director's Cut, maybe it flows a bit better. I feel like a scene or two is missing from the last half of the movie.

That's basically my problem with it - there's some issues in the first 3/4's of the movie that I can easily ignore, but it really hits the bad CGI and OVERACT NOW trap in the last half hour.   

[HaemishM]

What the fuck was this movie made for? The real villain was transparent about 3 minutes into the movie. Most of the dialogue seemed to be missing half of its context. The angel imagery felt added just to provide something interesting to look at.