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Max Payne

Max Payne

2008
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 40m
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin (Kunis) out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
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Max Payne

2008
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 40m
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Rated 18 Nov 2008
2
6th
Not only was every single character miscast (tv actors, rappers, singers, Nelly Furtado...what ?), but the acting was some of the worst I'd ever seen. Max Payne is one of my favorite games ever, and to see it butchered like that made me scream in agony. Just one film and I'm already awaiting a reboot (Thomas Jane would've been such a great Max Payne IMO). To John Moore: keep your hands off the Metal Gear Solid franchise !!!
Rated 28 Feb 2009
20
6th
I don't know where to start. Awful dialogs, possibly the worst casting that could happen for a movie called "Max Payne", a failed attempt to realize the Norse Mythologic references the game used and a pace that is painfully slow for a movie that based on a game which had "New York Minute". The only good thing that they managed to create was the cold and dark atmosphere.Action was used sparse which was riddicilous. John Moore couldn't even manage to tell a revenge story.
Rated 18 Oct 2008
42
25th
An all-out, chopped up and dumb action popcorn flick with very little interesting scenes. The cast is terrible too, with Wahlberg's chemistry with the rest being just plain bad. Once the gunplay picks up though, it's fairly decent and has awesome bullet time scenes. There's also some great cinematography to be found here racking up extra points. The horrible console to big-screen adaptation streak continues, with another one biting the dust.
Rated 04 Jan 2009
34
21st
It's stylish but that's it. The plot and dialog are both quite ridiculous so even a decent cast couldn't do anything with it. However Wahlberg is the only really decent actor in this, Nelly Furtado is HILARIOUSLY bad at acting to the point of almost making the film worth watching. The action scenes are certainly the highlight of the film but sadly you have to slog through over an hour of dribble, poor pacing and editing to get to them and the payoff certainly isn't worth it.
Rated 21 Jan 2009
70
34th
A lot of lost potential here, but no where near as bad as some are making it out to be.
Rated 13 Mar 2009
40
9th
Now, I like Mark Wahlberg, so I always wish him well. But this is just so very meh it makes Tomb Raider look interesting. It doesn't matter so much about plot in action films, but ye gods make it entertaining yeah? And where did the the super-slow-mo bullet time go?
Rated 03 Apr 2010
40
19th
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.
Rated 17 Oct 2008
75
58th
Fairly true to the game, needed more action, more mafia. Story altered a tad too much, probably not enough good one liners. Some great bullet time scenes.
Rated 18 Oct 2008
0
4th
Really, really bad. Possibly the worst cast film I've seen. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I don't mind him when he's in bit roles, honestly, but Mark 'The Wahl' Wahlberg is about as fit for a leading role as a sack of potatoes. Mila Kunis I don't mind but she's in a horrible role that reminds all too much of American Psycho 2. And Ludacris? Really? Surprisingly, Chris O'Donnel impressed me. In any case, there's really nothing in this film that justifies it being made.
Rated 18 Oct 2008
40
11th
What has limitless potential in its stylized world, Max Payne is completely dumb, boring, poorly acted, very misdirected, chopped up, and without a cohesive storyline. Wahlberg brings nothing to the table of what earned him his Oscar nod; no fear, menace or believability. The other characters barely exist as well as the revenge/murder storyline, and then they throw in the Iraq war and a steroid drug. "Max Payne" is awful - by the time the gunplay picks up near the end, it's too late.
Rated 13 Nov 2008
19
6th
Ok, how they did that? In the game they have everything and they came out with this? I mean WHAT?
Rated 23 Nov 2008
40
11th
Boooooring
Rated 24 Nov 2008
12
9th
The atmosphere and constant snowing is cool in here. Well, that's it. Story, cast, acting, effects. All sucks. Black winged demons could be cool but they were only halfaway ready. Kind of cheap Punisher slash Constantine rip-off.
Rated 11 Dec 2008
40
12th
well, that game was good
Rated 23 Dec 2008
40
3rd
What a waste. A waste of Wahlberg's time (I know he is better than this drool); a waste of an iconic brand, and a waste of my time. What the 'eck was the director thinking when he finally released this piece of ....
Rated 30 Dec 2008
10
15th
If I wanted to torture someone, I'd make them watch this very film. Mila Kunis should stick to Meg! =/ Seriously...how do these people keep getting roles?!
Rated 30 Dec 2008
5
1st
those 5 points are because i like a few of the actors (not ludacris, he's a waste of oxygen), thats it! i've watched some really bad movies, but this one is just so bad it hurts
Rated 29 Jan 2009
65
24th
This wasnt a movie. Just a jumble of scenes thrown together. Too bad, it was a great game.
Rated 03 Feb 2009
30
28th
Wow, bad.
Rated 09 Feb 2009
20
9th
What is going on? Haven't got a clue about the story, horrible acting and where is the bullit-time? Even wanted was (slightly) better.
Rated 09 Feb 2009
30
9th
Weak. The action is brainless fun, but there's not a whole lot of it, and it's as absurd as the rest of the film anyway. I like Wahlberg, but this movie was too predictable. Also, half of it was establishing shots with precipitation of some kind.
Rated 02 May 2009
0
2nd
Thanks for ruining one of the best videogames ever made.
Rated 07 May 2009
75
8th
Parts with shooting were better than the parts without shooting.
Rated 09 Jun 2009
60
8th
This was pretty bad. I don't recall there being any kind of plot, or character development, or well scripted dialogue, or...It did make me uber-nostalgic for the game though. Uber nostalgic.
Rated 18 Jun 2009
1
8th
I couldn't finish it.
Rated 30 Jun 2009
35
10th
it'll be the day when a half decent movie is made based on a computer game. max payne sadly doesn't manage to break this woeful trend with its dumb script, loose editing and wooden acting. hiring a good director of photography does not constitute a good film, it makes a decent trailer at most. studio executives should take notice.
Rated 08 Jul 2009
20
1st
Why the hell did I watch this film?
Rated 29 Sep 2009
0
0th
Has the unenviable accolade of being the only high budget action flick that I literally couldn't stay awake through. The casting and everything around it is dire. Whalberg is letting his self centered attitude flow into his acting even more than usual. I mean really, it can't be a good thing when O'Donnell stands out as being the only half decent aspect. The only thing to come out of this film involved Wahlberg shamelessly promoting this on Top Gear. "Hi. I'm a total prick. Watch Max Payne."
Rated 31 Jan 2010
2
14th
Everything that made the game a darkly intriguing and original idea is dumbed down, made completely obvious and churned out as just another movie on the miles long Hollywood production line. Utter disappointment.
Rated 02 Feb 2010
40
24th
So much potential for a good movie. So much disappointment in the script and direction.
Rated 25 Mar 2010
30
12th
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?
Rated 20 Apr 2010
1
6th
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?
Rated 18 Sep 2010
30
17th
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.
Rated 05 Nov 2011
30
21st
I've no doubt that if you killed Marky Mark's family he would try to hunt you down & kill you, or at the very least steal your car! I'll give Moore credit for having an eye for a good shot, & managing to provide mild entertainment, but overall this is a mess in every department. My favourite bits were the 'Wahlberg Roar of Anger' after he nearly freezes to death & when two goons give each other a complex set of tactical hand signals, before crashing through a door and spraying bullets randomly!
Rated 10 Jul 2012
26
4th
While it boasts some stylish action, Max Payne suffers severely from an illogical plot and overdirection.
Rated 16 Oct 2012
20
2nd
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.
Rated 23 Oct 2012
18
3rd
Still one of the worst VG adaptations. The writers have clearly never played the game and just looked up the synopsis on Wiki. All traces of the noir style are replaced with dull acting, dull visuals and PG-13 CGI violence. Wahlberg sounds less like a man with nothing to lose and more like he's just a bit grumpy. Doesn't even work as a good-bad movie. Give me an Uwe Boll film over this any day. Points for having McCaffrey do a cameo, minus points for not using the incredible original theme.
Rated 31 Dec 2012
10
12th
I wish anyone involved with this had bothered to watch someone else play the game (I know they wouldn't play it themselves because games aren't real art for movie people). The game has a real film noir detective feel to it and a great script full of dark humour, none of which made it to the film. Instead it's a dull illogical mess that must qualify as one of the most boring, least action-filled action films of the decade.
Rated 22 Apr 2013
30
7th
The only thing this movie did right was not force a stupid romantic side plot between Wahlberg and Kunis.
Rated 17 Oct 2008
74
34th
It tries too hard, and you couldn't really connect with any character.
Rated 19 Oct 2008
30
4th
Horrible. This could have been a great video game into movie venture, but the curse lives on that each video game movie sucks.
Rated 01 Nov 2008
50
9th
It had so much potential, but it wasn't even good-bad, or bad-good. It was just bad.
Rated 05 Nov 2008
40
5th
Booooring.
Rated 20 Nov 2008
75
30th
This move might not fill up the expectations but it offers some entertainment.
Rated 24 Nov 2008
21
8th
How hard can it be to properly adapt a video game that's already almost a movie? Pretty hard, it seems.
Rated 28 Nov 2008
20
13th
Really bad casting and why did they have to change perfectly good plot?
Rated 02 Dec 2008
40
10th
really a pain to watch.
Rated 09 Dec 2008
48
31st
Given WOM it actually surpassed my expectations. The film was still a bore and only contained 1 great action scene. Needed more effort and better Direction. Grade: C
Rated 10 Jan 2009
80
79th
well fellas..who knows the game, knows that this movie kicks ass. Mark is great as Max Payne, and the slow mow shots are so cool, just like in the game...don't get it all the yellow and red comments..but from me, two thumbs up!
Rated 12 Jan 2009
38
8th
Bad script, bad directing, bad acting - all actors were embarrassing. Mark Wahlberg is not Max Payne!!! I played the game, i know what I write about...
Rated 16 Jan 2009
65
39th
I liked it, just cause. Don't really know why and it's too bad some things get away with being explained like "it's only hallucination". Getting away that easy didn't do it for me. Don't expect too much action and you'll be fine. If you do, you don't get what max payne's about. The special effects are amazing and the scenes where the weird things happen are brilliant though
Rated 17 Jan 2009
45
18th
I never thought that i would feel sorry to see Max Payne... Atmosphere was good as in the game but many things were disturbingly changed.
Rated 21 Jan 2009
57
27th
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.
Rated 26 Jan 2009
65
30th
Disappointing with some cool scenes.
Rated 26 Jan 2009
85
89th
when people describe kill bill as stylish and great, they really should be talking about this movie. max payne has a slow start but when it gets there it had the mood and atmosphere to pack a damn good punch at the end.
Rated 28 Jan 2009
30
9th
I knew who the bad guy was 10 minutes into the film. But when I saw Nelly Furtado, I was like: whaaaaat? (plus Ludacris).
Rated 31 Jan 2009
20
6th
arrgghh cliché cliché talking head cliché terrible acting cliché constantine shit ok cinematography shit shit shitty marky mark credits phew
Rated 03 Feb 2009
55
24th
A good way to ruin...
Rated 07 Feb 2009
20
7th
Proof that looking cool and being cool are not the same. Action movie fans can tell when they are being served a cold turd on a paper plate.
Rated 09 Feb 2009
31
19th
This movie has some extremely shitty acting, but it wasn't a bad recreation of the game, still, it was pretty shitty
Rated 09 Feb 2009
45
18th
Very pretty but about as deep as a puddle. Removes most of what made the game's story great, puts it through a mincer and makes Hollywood sloppy joes out of it. I'd say I was disappointed but I wasn't expecting anything better.
Rated 19 Feb 2009
41
38th
I don't really know if I don't like it but for sure the trailer is by far much better than the actually film. Not only that, it gives a different idea about the story line.
Rated 17 Mar 2009
35
17th
The scenery and the feeling are good but everything else just sucks.
Rated 26 Mar 2009
60
7th
You see all the scenes and stories again which you already know and learned to love from the game. Yet bad acting, pointless dialogues and scenes feeleing glued together without a thriving motivation completely destroy the feeling...
Rated 30 Mar 2009
30
19th
Another adaptation of games, with much action, but with a story rather superficial.
Rated 30 Mar 2009
85
40th
my childhood video game, they could do it better.
Rated 04 Apr 2009
32
2nd
Good preview. Bad movie
Rated 24 Apr 2009
40
20th
"Max Payne spends a great deal of time building a unique visual look--at the expense of narrative and character development."
Rated 18 May 2009
40
19th
As video game to movie cross overs go this isnt that bad.
Rated 25 May 2009
52
21st
Terribly cast except for Wahlberg. The script is pretty awful, but the directing has some interesting visuals. Overuse of CG backdrops. All-in-all a slightly above-par game-to-movie transition.
Rated 02 Jul 2009
22
4th
Visually quite good, but that's the only thing good.
Rated 18 Jul 2009
25
2nd
A tattoo guy with a Norse mythology book ready to answer any questions with. Brilliant.
Rated 21 Jul 2009
1
11th
It takes a special kind of talent to make every frame of a film completely uninteresting.
Rated 27 Jul 2009
25
1st
I'm not a gamer, but I do enjoy a good revenge flick. That being said this one was just painfully lame.
Rated 27 Jul 2009
5
5th
The atmosphese in some of the indoor scenes were very successfully setup. Very much like the game. Everything other then that were awful though.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
45
3rd
I expected more...cool look and Punisher type of a feel, but I finished it and was like...what's the big deal. I thought Walberg was going to be like a bad-ass super hero. The trailers made it seem to me that he was going to be like a cool shape shifting creature or something, but it kind of fizzled at the very end for me.
Rated 15 Aug 2009
50
7th
This pretty much made no sense.
Rated 16 Aug 2009
30
13th
I've never really played the game but I suppose I'd find the movie even worse if I had. Story was mediocre, most of the time it was weird or boring and there were WAY too many of those awful slow motion scenes in it.
Rated 08 Sep 2009
8
2nd
inexplicable, what was the point of this film?
Rated 08 Sep 2009
45
4th
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.
Rated 28 Oct 2009
45
16th
As video game to movie cross over goes this isn't to bad. Saying that it isn't all that good either. The casting is rubbish apart from Mark Wahlberg, Nelly Furtado is that bad that shes nearly good. This flick oouzes style but it lacks everything else. It does have very good action scenes which help save the film alittle. This is great example of bad directing. If you watch the making of you can see that the John Moore directed it for the pay cheque and didn't give a damn about the end result
Rated 09 Dec 2009
20
4th
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.
Rated 18 Dec 2009
60
11th
Markie Mark you have become quite the badass and Mila Kunis was awesome. Not a bad film, a good watch
Rated 19 Dec 2009
30
6th
Zmarnowany fabularny potencjal, jaki dawala gra
Rated 22 Dec 2009
46
11th
It is a movie based on a video game. If they kept most of everything the same and dropped any ties to the video game while writing the script, you might have a great movie. Just didn't work as the dark, stylistic action film it was supposed to be because it was tied too damn closely to the video game and carried all the Hollywood stereotypes that just don't work in action films that don't embrace how exaggerated they are.
Rated 23 Jan 2010
32
10th
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.
Rated 02 Mar 2010
35
10th
Horrible. I hate video game movies and this one's no exception. Hard to believe that Wahlberg wasn't smart enough to stay away from this kind of tripe.
Rated 25 Mar 2010
10
0th
Style over substance... really, really bad movie.
Rated 11 May 2010
39
10th
The Viking angels were cool, but overall I found this rather generic and boring.
Rated 03 Jul 2010
0
0th
Utter shit! All they had to do was word-for-word copy the game to make a decent movie, but they managed to fail at that.
Rated 03 Jul 2010
0
0th
worst movie i've ever seen
Rated 05 Jul 2010
29
1st
disappointment for the game players
Rated 17 Jul 2010
25
7th
Disaster in most ways. Nothing in common with the game. No atmosphere (but it looks they could have it without Wahlberg). He screwed it up. Have nothing personally as he played few nice movies but this one definitely is not one of them. Plot is dead in moment of the movie beginning as they placed it's explanation in opposite to the placing it in the game. Too many plastic scenes and bad performers in one movie. Scenario was ready to take, the only thing was TO MAKE IT WATCHABLE...and they failed
Rated 01 Aug 2010
82
78th
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.
Rated 20 Sep 2010
45
0th
what was marky mark thinking
Rated 17 Oct 2010
10
9th
"This action saga is driven into unintentionally self-parodic territory only a seven-year-old boy could reasonably stomach." - Nick Schager
Rated 20 Oct 2010
46
19th
a little to over the top
Rated 26 Nov 2010
52
40th
No idea why Wahlberg is hated by so many game fans because if this film. It's not a masterpiece, but still pretty decent...
Rated 03 Dec 2010
60
14th
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 .
Rated 28 Dec 2010
32
24th
Not so good

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