Max Payne (2008)
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Critic Consensus: While it boasts some stylish action, Max Payne suffers severely from an illogical plot and overdirection.
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Max Payne is a maverick cop - a mythic anti-hero - determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
| Rating: | PG-13 (for violence including intense shooting sequences, drug content, some sexuality and brief strong language) |
| Genre: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense |
| Directed By: | John Moore |
| Written By: | Beau Thorne |
| In Theaters: | Oct 17, 2008 Wide |
| On DVD: | Jan 20, 2009 |
| Box Office: | $40.6M |
| Runtime: |
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as Jim Bravura
as Jason Colvin
as Alex Balder
as Jack Lupino
as Nicole Horne
as Natasha
as Michelle Payne
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All Critics (133) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (110) | DVD (17)
John Moore directs the hell out of the action, while Jonathan Sela's glistening photography captures the snow and rain that fall on these bloody New York streets. But you'd have to be on crack not to guess the 'surprise' finale.
The rain in Payne falls on dialogue inane.
Payneful
Never comes close to captivating its audience like the game did before it.
The willfully absurd action sequences help the movie slog along, but slog it does, right through to the obligatory after-credits scene to establish the possibility of a franchise.
Based on a Finnish shoot-em up video game, Max Payne is all style and little story, cheerless detective Max (Mark Wahlberg) drifting through a washed out and snowy New York in search of his wife's killer.
Audience Reviews for Max Payne
Kunis and Wahlberg are not bad. Thats the best I can do. Decent effects for an action movie but no where as cool as the games it was based off of.
Super Reviewer
A Payne-fully dull and predictable hard-boiled thriller occasionally interrupted by half-way decent John Woo-style action sequences.
Super Reviewer
Sort of hit or miss throughout for me. Parts were interesting, revenge is always a good story base, I know nothing about the game it's been adapted from, but feel it would have been more enjoyable to model it on the graphic novel adaptions. Some important clues were easily guessible and parts were action packed, others a little static.
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Max Payne Quotes
| Max Payne: | I don't believe in heaven. I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death. |
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