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  Review by Matt Singer ★½ 2

  Why in the drugged-out vision of hell does this movie have a post-credits scene? Did they really think this piece of junk was getting a sequel?!?

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  Review by Geoff T ★½ 40

  Talk about ruined potential. For you non-gamers out there, one of my favourite game franchises is Max Payne, a third-person shooter series defined by it's blood-soaked John Woo-inspired gunplay and a gritty neo-noir aesthetic. I even find the divisive third instalment to be an excellent game in its own right. In other words, it was the kind of game just asking for a film adaptation.

  Of course, all you need to do to mess that up is to hire a director like John Moore, who has as much understanding of Max Payne as he did when making the fifth Die Hard, which unsurprisingly is not very much at all. Loosely (and I stress the term "loosely") based on the first…

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  Review by christian d ★½ 22

  Seeing one of my all-time favourite video games be butchered by Hollywood definitely provided me with Max(imum) Payne. 1 ½ stars for the hilarious shotgunning physics, the pretty good but wasted set design and the Marky Mark Kaiju roar. Unrated version > Theatrical version, if you ever consider watching this at least stylish piece of shit.

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  Review by Eric Szyszka ★½ 2

  You've heard of Sin City, well get ready for Dim City.

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  Review by Ryley Mann ½ 12

  Worse than the clap??????

  Every one has a movie that they call there least favorite/most hated. For some, it's Jack and Jill. For some, it's The Phantom Menace. For some others, It's Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. What is it for me you're asking? Well, it's this ABORTION of a movie.

  For those of you who don't know, this is an adaption of the 2001 video game masterpiece. A action noir crime game. In it, you play as Max Payne, a cop who comes home one night who comes home to find his wife and daughter murdered by a bunch of junkies under the new drug called V. He kills the druggies, but loses his family. With loss of grief…

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  Review by Andrew Jupin ★★

  Dumb as hell, but contains possibly the funniest Mark Wahlberg cinematic moment, at least to me. No clue how faithful it is to the game, but all that valkyrie stuff? Man, this movie is a one-way ticket to Stupid City.

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  Review by Gonzo ★ 4

  A Movie A Day 2013: Day 361

  The Good: Some shots look cool.

  The Bad: Lame and boring as fuck.

  The Bottom Line: Why can't anyone make at least one decent video game movie? Just one...

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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★ 1

  I may not be a gamer, but I had actually heard of the Max Payne character before this film lurched into existence back in 2008. I didn't know fuck-all about the character or the game, other than the fact it was a third person shooter game, but it must have been fairly popular as it got two sequels which is more than this pile of wank got.
  The plot made no sense to me. Mark Wahlberg reminded me of a videogame character, because he sure as hell isn't an actor. My interest in this waned pretty much as soon as Olga Kurylenko bought the farm at the hands of ?. I watched it, but could I tell you what killed…

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  Review by Sam ★

  I don't really have time to watch as many movies as I'd like to at the moment so I'm overjoyed I spent one of my few nights off watching this piece of garbage. Totally my own fault.

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  Review by Rob Hill ★ 4

  How do you screw this up so badly??? Just make a noir ambience, add some modern action, then throw in some slow motion. That's it!

  This is such a muddled mess that I cared about no one involved. Some of the action was terrible. There's just not a lot of nice things to say.

  The curse of video game movies continues!

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  Review by MadAlakzam ★★★ 12

  Kritik: Max Payne (2008)

  Mit Max Payne traut Regisseur John Moore sich an eine beliebte Videospielserie heran, die als solche für eine Filmadaption hohes Risiko mit sich bringt.
  Der aus der Vorlage resultierende Rachethriller bietet stylische Action im eisigen Neo-Noir-Gewand, das eine hohe Messlatte für eine spannende Krimigeschichte auflegt.
  Kann Max Payne seiner optischen Stärke nachziehen oder unterliegt er dem Fluch verzweifelter Videospielverfilmungen, die ihr Quellenmaterial entwürdigen?

  Ein audiovisueller Meilenstein des Film-Noir-Genres

  Der standhafte Neo-Noir-Schimmer kreiert ein infiltrantes Bühnenbild, in dem das New Yorker-Setting seiner Realität beraubt wird und eine sogwirkende Gewitterwolke aufzieht.
  Hartes Licht fällt durch einen omnipräsenten Schwarzstich, sich dehnende Schatten durchziehen die verschneite Großstadt und veranschaulichen mit einer expressionistischen Feindseligkeit die permanente Melancholie der Geschichte.
  Mit ruhigen…

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  Review by Jesse ★★

  Max Payne was the first Rockstar game I ever played. I immediately loved the cinematic quality the game had and often imagined it would make a terrific film. Needless to say I was excited to see this when it came out. 

  The Good: The action is fairly well done with some fun slow-motion sequences that harken back to the game. Painkillers anyone? They nail the snowy backdrops and even incorporate the hallucinogenic qualities that made the game scary at times. 

  The Bad: Mark Wahlberg is horribly miscast. He ends up doing his same Wahlberg thing that we’ve seen in so many films. I personally would love to see Paul Rudd in this role. Gritty action with a comedy star, it…