Max Payne User Reviews

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 I originally wrote this review for my blog.Video game-to-movie adaptations tend to be, as a general rule, hit or miss. It all depends on the type of game being chosen, and how the screenwriter and director work with the source material. The whole mess becomes even more tricky when you’re ...

Mark Wahlberg steps into the shoes of grieving cop and titular anti-hero Max Payne for this big screen adaptation of the successful videogame series. The premise remains the same; Max’s family has been murdered and he is on a rapid downward spiral as his obsession with finding their killer and ...

 If you are a fan of the Max Payne games, don't see this movie. If you're not a fan of the Max Payne games, don't see this movie either! Max Payne (the games) is a wonderful film noir action game, gritty with a well written dialogue and a story of ...

I am a fan of the Max Payne video games, but when it comes to film adaptations I pay no mind to the original works – they are, after all, take-offs; they are independent. All I had heard of Max Payne suggested to me that it was no good, but ...

Max Payne is a video game both very easy and very hard to adapt. The easy part has been transferred beautifully to the big screen. Artistic shadows, extreme environments, slow-motion action, it's all here and it looks brilliant and adds well to the madness of the dark Max Payne world. ...