- At the end of it all I’m wondering how this is based on a video game and, just like I wondered about the movie, what the point of the video game is.
- I find big corporations as faceless villains in movies to be really, really boring. It’s one of the reasons I didn’t really care for Michael Clayton and the main reason I won’t be seeing the upcoming The International.
- Mark Wahlberg needs to stop making script choices that make it more and more easy to believe that his Oscar nomination was a fluke. He was pretty ridiculous in this and when he started roaring towards the end, I nearly died.
- Aesthetically, I liked this film. Tragically (but unsurprisingly), this is not enough to carry the film on its own.
- Nelly Furtado is in this movie for reasons I cannot even begin to understand.
- I take solace in the fact that the snow on the ground in the film is real because they were filming it here in Toronto in March.
- Please tell me that Max Payne is not a really, really bad play on Maximum Pain or some such thing.
- There’s one particular bit of set dressing that I don’t understand. Throughout the film we see flashbacks to the murder of Max Payne’s wife and infant son and they always start out focusing on the door to a bedroom. Now, the door has a big sign on it that says “BABY” so presumably it’s the baby’s room, but it’s this gigantic room with a queen sized bed in it in addition to the crib and bassinet, so then you think perhaps despite the sign on the door this is actually the bedroom of Max and his wife. Except the wallpaper looks like it’s been chosen for a seven year old boy, complete with a terrible border with footballs on it running midway around the room. I find all of this very perplexing and it’s bugging the hell out of me that I have no idea whose room that was supposed to be. I spent a large portion of the movie thinking about this.
- I’ve seen a lot of really crappy movies this year. 2008 sucks.
Max Payne
Max Payne-ful. Yeah, that’s right, I said it.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.