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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 |
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Producer:
Scott Faye
John Moore
Julie Yorn |
Screenwriter (based on the computer game by Remedy Entertainment):
Beau Thorne |
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.
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