Review of Max Payne (2008) by Brandon W — 16 Mar 2015

Max Payne is a really bad video game adaptation movie that is usual for any video game adaptation. I haven't played the game, so I'm just going by the quality of the film itself. While the performances from Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis are great, and the actions are really good, the plot is awful.

I seen this before, and it's a bit similar to the Hitman movie which I was surprised and was shaking my head. It's too predictable, it makes no sense, and it's like it's trying to be something to be standing out when in reality, it's just as generic as any other action movie, except for the demon creatures which would've been interesting if they were not pointless to the story.

While the main character seem to be developed the most, the rest of the characters were not and some of them were just there to die. It wasn't interesting and just didn't care about it. Some of the actors who are well known are underused, and the writing is bad, sometimes hilariously bad.

Even though I haven't played the games, I know a bit about them, especially the "bullet time" which in the action scenes here, they barely done that, and it was a wasted opportunity as I wanted more of it.

Max Payne is a waste of time that I was surprised that Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Chris O' Donnell, Beau Bridges, and Ludacris are even in this.