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Max Payne (2008)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Oct 24, 2008

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Release Date: Oct 17, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 98 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime; With: Mark Wahlberg

Image credit: Michael Gibson

MAX PAYNE Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis

Movies based on videogames, like the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider or Resident Evil franchises, tend to be hollow, hyperactive FX-laden blowouts. Max Payne has the hollow part down pat, but there's nothing active about it. It's just a grindingly inert death-wish thriller in which Max (Mark Wahlberg), a stone-cold detective whose wife and infant were mysteriously murdered, tries to solve the crime and exact his revenge. The movie is a series of glum interrogation scenes that lead nowhere special, with a not-quite-sci-fi urban murkiness that makes it look like someone was trying to shoot Blade Runner in Cleveland. D

Originally posted Oct 16, 2008 Published in issue #1018 Oct 31, 2008 Order article reprints

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