Max Payne

I don't believe in Heaven. I believe in Pain. I believe in Fear. I believe in Death
Max Payne the Movie, is a spin-off from the videogame. For me, a seemingly meaningless film due to it's rather slow build up, and super fast ending...
Visually though, i enjoyed it, which is normal, due to the comic book influenced angles used in the filming of this piece.
One high point worth mentioning is the soundtrack by Marylin Manson

Starring;
Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Donald Logue

Product review;

Any film based on a first-person shooter video game should, as a rule of thumb, be full of epic shootouts on a level equal to Sergio Leone or the Wachowski Brothers, and in that regard, Max Payne is an unqualified success. Mark Wahlberg also lives up to the game's pedigree by brooding mightily as the title hero, a big city detective mourning the murder of his wife and child.
Revenge is, of course, Payne's ultimate goal, and with the assistance of slinky Russian hitwoman Mila Kunis, he dishes it out in elaborate set pieces overflowing with gymnastic gun play.

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Viewers seeking just that and nothing more will get their money's worth from John Moore's film adaptation, and most likely be impressed by its fashionably gloomy art direction and cinematography. Those seeking a bit more than gunpowder and gristle will find Max Payne utterly derivative of a half-dozen better films (Christopher Nolan's Batman films, most notably) and violent to the point of cartoon absurdity. They may find some refuge in appealing supporting turns by Donal Logue and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges as diametrically opposed cops and Beau Bridges, who offers his usual roguish charm as Payne's former superior. --Paul Gaita

Reviews;
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg), is an NYPD detective and a man with a painful past. His wife and child were murdered at the hands of drug crazed lunatics. One of the men who was involved in the aforementioned crime got away and that haunts Max every day. Months later the case has gone cold and we see that, ironically, Max works in the Cold Case unit at the fifty fifth precinct. That's his day job, but by night he is a vigilante that seeks justice, answers and revenge on the wrong-doers.

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Every element of the game was in the film. The snowy nighttime New York landscape, the rundown dirty buildings, the characters, Valkyr and the druggies and even the slow motion or "bullet time" as it's called in the game, were all present in "Max Payne" the film. However, much like video games have their bugs and glitches, the film has it's flaws, and if you're a devoted fan of the game, you'll take notice of these flaws.