No surprise: Max Payne movie sucks |
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BY Mike Wehner October 18th, 2008 |
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Any gamer knows that movies based upon their beloved franchises very rarely turn out to be watchable, much less enjoyable. But why is this? Are videogame plots that much different from your standard action movie? Is it a curse? Is it Uwe Boll?!?! We’d argue that it’s none of the above (however, Boll hasn’t exactly helped the situation). What it comes down to is that the majority of movies made are just bad in general. So, for a movie to be good AND based on a videogame the chances are just that much slimmer.
The most recent victim of this trend is Max Payne. We’ll admit, we had hope for Max Payne. Its production looked like it was coming along nicely, not to mention the fact that Mr. Wahlberg said it was his most enjoyable roll ever. Those are some pretty big words coming from such an esteemed young actor, but apparently what he thinks of the movie just didn’t translate into a box office beauty. Currently sporting a decidedly sub-par 29/100 aggregate review score, it looks like you might be better off saving your $10 and picking up Super Mario Bros. on DVD instead. Wait, we’re the only ones who loved that disaster? Curses!
October 18th, 2008
at 11:12 pm
The Max Payne movie script was not even close to resembling the game script. The game script wasn’t bad it was actually pretty friggen cool. Movie writers that rewrite video game movies just absolutly suck for some reason. look at Hitman, that sucked too. I think the corporate groups behind video game movies still think only little kids play video games so they have to tone down the movies so the parents of little kids can see them. Max Payne,PG-13? The game is rated Mature. There weren’t any realistic NYPD cops in the movie, how disrespectful, like the FBI who had to redesign the 10mm cartridge less powerful because they’re agents didn’t have the balls to shoot like a man are more badass then real life street beatin’ NYPD cops. Why don’t the writers of Max Payne tell 1 NYPD cop in uniform that an FBI agent is more capable of committing acts of badass then they are… Screw video game movie writers, every single one of them. Video games have killer stories, which is why they become movies sometimes, but everytime some douche bag writer twists the script to adhere to the market corporate tells him to.
October 19th, 2008
at 2:03 am
Yah just got back from the movie….*sigh*
October 19th, 2008
at 8:00 pm
Movie sucked what more can I say?
October 20th, 2008
at 5:12 am
i suspect the storyline for Max Payne is a lot more exciting when it’s happening in the form of a video game… except for those few exciting parts that i already saw in the preview, it was a snoozefest
October 20th, 2008
at 2:24 pm
Oh, hell yes! The Super Mario Bros movie rocks!!! No, that isn’t sarcasm. :P
October 27th, 2008
at 3:44 am
It sucked. Full-stop. First hour or so was ‘n total snoozefest, and I actually fell asleep in the cinema. Last half-an-hour, action, but very lame action. And the plot?? Why focus on the freakin’ back-story, when all this movie had to be, was a action shoot’em up from start to finish.
I had to go to the pub and drown my sorrows after seeing this. My soul was raped.