Frankly i wanted to rate this bad, but somehow couldn’t get myself to do it! Reason, i**just loved the game so much that anything associated with it can’t be bad after all.
But this is a movie review not a game review, so back to the movie... Max payne is a terrible terrible movie, all the strong points about the game, **like the humor, the sarcasm, the voice over, the cool villans, bullet-time. Everyone of these points are missing!! Yeah there are 2 shots that can pass off as bullet-time, but thats about it!
Now am sure anyone who has played the game would know the plot, but still for the record, here i go..
Max’s is a cop whose wife and child is killed now he wants to take revenge and in the process uncovers some secrets. Thats it. Short n simple, unfortunately can’t say that about the flim, although it is only 2 hrs long, it feels like an eternity watching it!
The good thing though is they have kept the names of the characters and the places intact, so each time you hear them, there is a certain nostalgia that kicks in. The other good point - mark walberg is convincingly monomaniacal as max payne, a rogue cop seeking vengeance for the murder of his wife and child. Even the new bond gal makes a brief appearance in the film. There are hundreds of video games being made in to movies targeting the fans of the video games, its all right make some money, but put in some efforts to earn it man... Give us fans something to cheer about.
Max payne may well be the most tedious trip to a cinema you make all year, well not exactly its better than x-files 2 or is it? Whatever may be the case its forgettable!