Max Payne (2008)

Growing up, I was a huge video gamer. Played a bunch of action and horror based games. Max Payne was one of those games I played constantly as I was a fan of the series. When a movie was announced back in 2007 and the casting of Mark Wahlberg as the title character of Max Payne, I recall reading the IMDB message boards and the outrage surrounding it. Usually, I would never agree to the outrage as to me it's all laughable. But I had to agree after watching the film. Max Payne is not a good film by a long shot. The casting is terrible, the story is terrible and everything about it is terrible. Even at 18 years old, watching this for the first time, I was not impressed with it. This was at a time when movies based on popular video games were getting lambasted by the audience for not following the story or just changing the stuff to appease the Hollywood executives. I watched it again recently, now a little older to see if my opinion back then still stands today and it does. Mark Wahlberg was wrong for the role. Even the casting of Mila Kunis as Mona Sax and Ludicrous as Jim Bravura was wrong. It's almost if the director or 20th Century Fox didn't know the game. People know my stance on remakes, but if they ever decide to do a another variation of Max Payne, I suggest they do the following:

1. Get unknowns. Don't rely on the superstars of Hollywood because we all know they'll upstage one another.

2. Make it a HBO miniseries. I find that it would be better then a straight up film.

Overall... Max Payne is one of the worst video game movies I've ever seen and I plan on watching more films based on games eventually.

1/5


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