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Max Payne (2008)

Director:
John Moore
COUNTRY
Canada/USA
GENRE
Action/Thriller/Crime
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Max Payne
RUNNING TIME
100 minutes
Producer:
Scott Faye
John Moore
Julie Yorn
Screenwriter (based on the computer game by Remedy Entertainment):
Beau Thorne


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Max Payne Mark Wahlberg
Mona Sax Mila Kunis
BB Hensley Beau Bridges ½
Lt. Jim Bravura Ludacris
Jason Colvin Chris O'Donnell
Det. Alex Balder Donal Logue ½
Jack Lupino Amaury Nolasco ½
Nicole Home Kate Burton
Natasha Sax Olga Kurylenko

 

Review

Film noir meets the video game world - and a hint of the superhero genre - as Max Payne is brought to the big screen by John Moore (The Omen). The film looks and feels appropriately gloomy and constructs a recognizable storyline with useful conviction. Moore keeps it low-key and is clever not to spew out an abundance of action sequences. The Max Payne character is perhaps the least interesting element in the film, not much helped by a half-inspired Mark Wahlberg, but the film's small dosage of superheroness is a refreshment in these overloaded superhero days, and the Valkyr theme is highly interesting, despite the half-done visual realization of its effect. In this theme, Max Payne continues a thematic line which goes back to interesting B-films such as The Prayer of the Rollerboys. Watch for Chris O'Donnell in an effective supporting role.

 

Copyright © 19.3.2009 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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