Those who played the game will recognize the plot elements, but despite the fairly true-to-original story, the film fails to inspire any kind of emotion besides that of resigned acceptance to watch it through to the end.

Horrible. This could have been a great video game into movie venture, but the curse lives on that each video game movie sucks.

Watching Max Payne makes having my wisdom teeth removed seem like a day spent at Disneyland.

Why the hell did I watch this film?

Visually quite good, but that's the only thing good.

Wow, bad.

It'a a decade since I played the first game, but I could recognise some of the feel from it - and for a videogame-based film I'm more concern about that than the story itself. There are flaws regarding story and some of the characters, but visuals and style makes this quite enjoyable overall anyhow. *Preview*: #12#, [Unrated Edition], popcorn, liked, rewatch(2) }*{ #09#, [Unrated Edition], popcorn, game, Mila K, (Olga K).

I'm not surprised they completely fucked up an adaptation of a great video game with tons of cinematic potential. It abandons the game's gritty noir tone for something hyper-realistic, supernatural, and faux-psychological. And who the hell is responsible for casting this movie?

It's a fun stylized action flick that does manage to channel many of the aspects of the general spirit the game. Not sure what all the hatred is about, as it's among the best video game-to-film adaptations.

Markie Mark you have become quite the badass and Mila Kunis was awesome. Not a bad film, a good watch

There were a few times during the movie when I thought "well, this isn't that bad", but for the most part, it was that bad. Nonsensical plot and horrible acting.

Video games are often criticized for their lack of an engaging story, but in this case the source material was much more compelling than the film adaptation. Instead of sticking to the noir/action roots of the game, the film spends way too much time trying to be a mystery/thriller. Wahlberg is not at his best, Mila Kunis isn't given much to work with in the script, and overall the film is a boring mess.

Full of clichés, horribly casted, poorly put together. It sucks. But I was kinda entertained still, for whatever reason.

a little to over the top

incoherent nonsense... And the sad part is, that the game had a lot of great noir in it, that could easily have been translated into film.

Absolutely boring, with an ending so insultingly stupid it's like a slap to the face. Some neat cinematography definitely isn't enough to fix this thing -- just play the games, they're a lot better.

Sloppy.

Before watching I read that Wahlberg didn't play the game because he was afraid of getting addicted to it. I've played the games and they're not of the addictive kind. They're of the "this is art"-kind. Walhberg doesn't know who he is playing, fails to make the right connections and makes the game look bad. Bruce Campbell would have made a better Max.