Saturday, October 18, 2008

Movie Rant: Max Payne



Max Payne, a movie adaption of the hit video game of the same name. A story about a cop who lost his wife and kid, this is where the similarity to the video game ends. No internal monologues, movie's Max Payne voice feels different (he shoulda worn a Batman mask "wai yu wan na kierl mei") and though there are some slow motion scenes, which I believe the movie's adaption of "Bullet Time" from the game, the slow motion scenes keep coming out at dumb moments.

Story : Real straight forward stuff drugs, murder and a plot twist so obvious you could see it coming from China.

Acting : Well the acting was ok.

Visuals : Well when someone takes the drug and starts hallucinating you get to see lots of CGI sunlight, yes like real sunlight is too expensive so you gotta use the CGI version. Then there are the angels, which were also too expensive so they were all just coloured black. Real thrifty thinking there max

Fav Scene: Near the end, where he charges into a carpark with 2 machine guns then he goes up a few levels and suddenly has a shotgun

Overall: On a scale of 1 to 10, I think about 2 people were still awake at the end of the movie.
I'll give it a 2/10, not even worth downloading.

Though watching the movie did let me think of the times i played Max Payne. I remembered a scene where someone was stalking Max and had recorded all his phone calls, and when you go into this stalker's room and replay the phone call recording thing there is a call where Max calls a phone s*x line. Heres the vid, but you have to skip till to 4:00/9:24 .

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