Max Payne

Rockstar Games' double-gunned action franchise comes to the big screen thanks to director John Moore (The Omen) and Mark Wahlberg, who embodies the title character of Max Payne, a widowed cop hell-bent on delivering justice no matter what the cost as he investigates a string of killings in his city. ...more

"I don't believe in Heaven. I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death," bellows Mark Wahlberg's Max Payne with a faded rumble in his voice. That's quite a narration to begin a film with. Hollywood needs to make more movies like Max Payne. It's quite possibly one of the best video game adaptations ever committed to celluloid. It's also one of the most bullet-riddled and fun action movies to come down the pipe in a long time. Shell casings fly across director John Moore's noir ...more

Video-game adaptations have a deservedly bad reputation, probably because most of them suck. The heart of the problem is probably the fact that you're basing your screen-story on something created in a medium where story isn't really necessary. Max Payne, however, finds a loophole in this conundrum, because it's a movie based on a game that was already sort of based on movies. The video game of Max Payne is mostly just your basic third-person shooter -- the way it defines itself is through its ...more