"This action saga is driven into unintentionally self-parodic territory only a seven-year-old boy could reasonably stomach." - Nick Schager

a little to over the top

what was marky mark thinking

Max Payne does not hold up well as a film, much less as an adaptation of a game. The film suffers from sloppy acting, poor direction, a bad mix of action and drama as well as a climax that ends up being worse than the rest of the film. It ends up being boring, hard to follow and not interesting in the least. Its artistic style to violence keeps it together for the most part, but it ends up falling flat on its face when it tries anything else.

Not so good

I was pretty surprised; for an avid fan of Max Payne video games, the movie was an interesting version of the original story, with a few new twists. The good ol' Max, but yet, new and different. Great effects, an always interesting story-line, it is a movie that should be enjoyed separated from the games, as a story in itself.

ugh

The shotgun backflip scene makes this piece of garbage almost worth watching.

No idea why Wahlberg is hated by so many game fans because if this film. It's not a masterpiece, but still pretty decent...

for me who played the game Max Payne and expected to see a film that adapted from the game , it was a disappointing movie .choosing Wahlberg as Max Payne was good and the story for those who met the Max Payne character for first time is a little satisfying .

The Viking angels were cool, but overall I found this rather generic and boring.

Max Payne might be my favourite video game series of all time. There was no Max Payne in this movie. Where the hell was the first person narration? Where was the moody music? Where was one single fucking moment of self awareness or humour? Also, Max is arrested a the end of Max Payne. I honestly don't know if this happened in the movie, because the police storm the roof and have their guns pointed at him, and then someone says "don't worry, Payne is alive," and then the movie ends. Wha?

Style over substance... really, really bad movie.

Not quite as bad as most people make it out to be. Wahlberg has exactly the right face for this. They should have made it "more noir", instead of mixing in the supernatural creatures. What truly derails the film - besides the poor, flashback-laden storytelling - is a bad guy so tame that I can only try to hint at how ineffectual and payneful the resolution is with a pun like this.

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?