Max Payne: Movie based on the popular 2001 video game

For a film based purely on video game, there is a dearth of action in Max Payne. Yes, there’s always complain from our end with such movies having only action, but no sequence. However, this has gone completely in the reverse direction except the fact that the substance is still missing. The movie stopped in between and now seems a one-dimensional detective noir rather than being a shoot-em-up thriller.

Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) takes the needed break from his duties of talking to animals for playing the main character, who is a police detective in New York City. Three years back, his wife and baby were murdered by 3 assailants. One of them escaped and never got identified, whereas the other two died. Now, Max works in cold case bureau, usually pushing papers around the clock and tries to focus himself on his primary objective: Finding the person who was responsible in killing his family.

The movie also stars Olga Kurylenko, Mila Kunis, Chris ‘Ludacris’, Beau Bridges and Amauro Naulasco. It’s only in the final ten minutes of the movie, after innumerable lurching twists in the plot and unsatisfactory explanation, when you finally come across gunfight and vengeance that you have come to see including the super-slow-motion action sequences, which is common in the Max Payne game.

Max Payne, $35 million movie, had a good start in the box office this week. The movie is expected to have a high opening By Director John Moore.