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RATING: 1/5 Tags: Revenge, Crime Thriller, Video Game, Drugs, Stylized, Max Payne
Summary: Little excitement for a film based on a popular third-person shooter video game. Comic books have finally arrived incorporating thrills, humanity, and storylines ("Spider-Man", "The Dark Knight")--when will video games rise to the occasion? Unfortunately "Max Payne" is not that film (it lacks both thrills & story).
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Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Olga Kurylenko
Director: John Moore
Genre: Action
MPAA: This film is rated PG-13 for violence including intense shooting sequences, drug content, some sexuality and brief strong language.
Parental Guide:
Nudity: PG equivalent; implied nudity
Profanity: PG13 equivalent; 1 “F” word, approx. 25 profanities
Sex: PG13 equivalent; seduction scene
Violence: PG13 equivalent; gore, shooting sequences
Other: PG13 equivalent; drug content
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"Max Payne" has a constant bleakness; darkness is evident everywhere highlighted by snowfall and icy blue. It reminds of the atmosphere of "Sin City". "Max Payne" does seem to be attempting the video game atmosphere. One should appreciate the film's effort to use colors to integrate moods.
For those unfamiliar "Max Payne" is a popular third-person shooter video game where excitement, gun fire dominates the gamer’s experience. For the film goers this is reversed: instead we are forced to endure some non-stimulating dialogue, poorly paced investigation-and when the action surfaces it's frequently over the top ridiculous. "Max Payne" is closer to "Hitman" and "The Punisher" than "Sin City" and "The Dark Knight".
John Moore directional efforts include "The Omen" (2006), "Flight of the Phoenix" (2004), "Behind Enemy Lines".
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Ukrainian beauty Olga Kurylenko portrays the object of desire, that same sensuous, mysterious, exotic role she captured audiences with in "Hitman" and Bond 22 "Quantum of Solace". Unfortunately her casting here is underutilized-we'd like to have seen more of Kurylenko.
The boyish Chris O'Donnell shows his face having been absent from films since "Vertical Limit" (2000), "Batman & Robin" (1997), "Kinsey" (2004). It's not a noteworthy comeback either.
Some obscure casting including Academy Award nominee Mark Walhberg in the lead role, Chris O'Donnell, "That '70s Show" Mila Kunis, "Prison Break" Amaury Nolasco and musician Ludacris.
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