Max Payne - movie
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Max payne trailer is out. Actually doesnt look too bad.
Its a shame Mark didnt play the whole thing with that max payne 2 lemon drop face
Its a shame Mark didnt play the whole thing with that max payne 2 lemon drop face
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I just want them to add some major bloodspray.
Max Payne, after all, was a puddle of gritty blood, with curse words sprinkled in here and there.
But, If they don't wanna have that in the movie, whatever, it still looks good.
gimme a good ol hardboiled ledfilled story set in the real world and id be happy...
I did laugh when I heard the voice though, trying so hard for that gritty Max Payne tone lol.
Edit: Oh yeah, and Ludacris in the film rofl I'm going to hope he's only got a small role but who knows maybe he'll surprise me and be a half decent actor.
For those interested, the trailer song is "If I Was Your Vampire", by Marilyn Manson.
I think this looks badass. Need to find someone I can drag to opening day.
Quoted for truth...
Max Payne's universe is very dark/dirty but still realist. In the video game, the people are crazy, not really the world itself. (even when he gets his bad trips in the video game, it's still linked to the story/universe). Here we have a mix between Narnia with this death Harpie "scary ninja vampire" (I like
ever seen crash? he was excellent in that.
Yea, I was incredibly surprised by how good he was in Crash.
Max Payne looks great to me.
Also most of the norse stuff was a metaphor in the Payne games, but this looks quite literal; it probably isn't, but visually it looks like it.
And with the director and lead actor spouting some of the dumbest interviews for a movie in recent memory I don't see why we should have any hope for this.
It's kind of weird how some people see the trailer say "awesome!" and some(or at least me) just groans and the issue isn't really staying true to the Max Payne roots, but just what I see that looks like a good movie, it looks cheesy and dumb,
They need a little less Constantine and a little more Heat; actually make that a lot less and a lot more.
pretty good tie in with the explanation behind valkyr. overall pretty fun.
I could put it pretty succinctly. Atmosphere good, acting passable, script lousy. It bares some similarities to Silent Hill in this regard - it looks great but the dialogue is often awful with some really clumsy exposition, and like that movie, this is pretty unforgivable given the higher quality of the source material. They could have used some more monologuing too. There desperately needs to be one at the end.
The story also doesn't flow all that coherently. I'm not sure if we've got the cut down version here, but it feels like it's been edited very poorly and bits of the plot have been lost because of it. Or maybe the script just isn't very good.
Regardless of this, they've made Max a fool. In one sequence, rather than doing what any sane individual who was trying to clear his name would and either using some stealthiness or talking to a few people, He marches through the middle of the police station, through a bunch of police who think he's a murderer, storms into his dead partner's office and ransacks the joint before escaping through a window.
This problem runs throughout the movie. They've tried to make Max a man of few words, which would be fine except because he's so aloof he makes things much harder for himself and makes it look far more likely that he's a criminal.
There are also a number of sequences where he just wanders into a building and starts shooting people. The first guy he guns down at the wife murder scene doesn't actualla appear to have a weapon. He just runs out to see who's coming up the stairs and gets shot. Nice work Max. What if that was some random innocent? Perhaps a friend of your wife's? I suppose it doesn't matter that much, except that it happens quite a lot.
Action sequences are few and far between. There are some flashes of brilliance, but for a game that bases itself around John Woo's stylised action, it's mostly pretty standard fare.
The environments are the film's strong point. Frequently, you'll see Max wander through shots taken directly from both in game and more often from the comic sections. Even the framing is often the same. It all looks very nice and its just a pity that more effort couldn't have gone into carrying through other aspects of the game or at least making a quality movie.
The Valkyries we were so worried about aren't at odd's with the source material. They're not really a necessary addition either, but they don't get in the way.
Stick around after the credits. Theres an epilogue that runs for a few minutes setting up the sequel.
All in all, it's not a terrible movie, per se. I'm being particularly hard on it because I saw it in the cinema on a Friday night and it cost me a sizable amount of cash. Grab it on DVD and you probably won't be excessively disappointed.
5/10
I actually enjoyed the film... Its far from being the best film I've ever seen, but it was enjoyable. Its definitely one of the better 'game to movie' films I've seen, not that it says a lot because most of them are pretty turds.
A few things you mentioned, Jackablade, sit a little strange with me. That's what I remember happening in the first game. No matter what he did or who he spoke to, just made himself look more and more guilty. Yup... Sounds like Max Payne the game. I don't understand why you were so surprised by it.
I will agree with some of your points however, especially the action sequences being few and far between. The film needed some more monologues, it started off with them, then stopped.
I missed the epilogue at the end however, the dudes I was with didn't really want to sit through the credits.
I was also surprised that bullet time was only seen about three times throughout the entire film, instead of every gun sequence.
Mila Kunis... Poorly casted! That's all I'm saying about that.
If you're a Max Payne fanboy, don't expect to see the movie told word for word like the game. It is based on the storyline of the first game and holds true to a good extent, but there are quite a few variations.
Overall, good popcorn flick, 7/10 from me.
-caseyjones
I'm all for making the guy fall deeper and deeper into trouble. That is what the game was about, but they didn't need to make him look a complete fool doing it.
The shooting thing is probably needlessly nit picky, but it didn't really sit all that well in the context of the film, regardless of source material. When I initially wrote the review I'd just finished spending $17 to see a movie that wasn't particularly good, so I was a little on the harsh side.
Worth a rental.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/3d-realms-bewildered-max-payne-flick
If you were even considering it, don't. I don't think i've seen a bigger disappointment of a movie this year, and saying something coz i bought Southland Tales.
Scott
i haven't played max payne since it came out, and that sentence is still burned into my mind.
awesome awesome game.