Check out new Common Sense Selections for games.10 tips for getting kids hooked on books.Common Sense Selections for family entertainment.Nobody ever shed a tear over a video-game character's death. But as good as a couple of its action beats are, Max still suffers from the heartlessness that makes games emotionally inferior to movies. The acting's not bad, overall the shootouts work. Max Payne isn't the worst video-game movie adaptation, not so long as Uwe Boll lives, breathes and directs. I believe I'm logging onto to see that Saturday Night Live send-up of Wahlberg acting - "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" - again. The story is told in flashback, as when we meet Max, he's drowning under an icy river. Max Payne is a PG-13 movie begging for an R. Several, as a matter of fact - blizzards of bullets smacking into snow, ice, office furniture and flesh. The story's a real eye-roller, a loose collection of cop and conspiracy-picture cliches that do little to disguise the obvious direction things are headed. Hart), who drops his "man" and "dude" speak to launch into a discourse on Norse mythology. None of them is as funny as the tattoo artist (Stephen R.
Chris O'DonnellÖ is an ex-colleague of Max's wife, and the rapper Ludacris, a mediocre actor, is a cop in Internal Affairs. She and Max should work together, right?īeau Bridges plays BB (ha!), an ex-cop who tries to keep Max out of trouble. If she didn't have a gun we wouldn't have a clue. "You know what I do for a living," she purrs. Mila Kunis, cast because she looks oh-so-hot in black - but miscast, nevertheless - plays Mona, Natasha's sister, a hit woman, we assume. Before the cops can settle on Max as a suspect, his former partner (Donal Logue)Ö is murdered while trying to pass along clues. Max stumbles into this scene, is linked to the death of a stunning Russian strumpet (Olga Kurylenko)Ö and begins to wonder if this new go-go juice is somehow connected to his late wife's murder. Dark wraiths swoop in and take them out, or so they think. There's a new drug on the streets, and it's killing the people who use it. He's a cop who's been hiding out in the cold-case department, hunting for the tattooed butchers who cut up his missus. Mark Wahlberg is the title character, a cop who buried his pregnant wife three years before. One thing you can say for this John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) actioner: It hides its video-game roots reasonably well, better than it hides its Toronto-subbing-for- New York locations. It's Sin City Lite, with winged Valkyrie who snatch tormented souls from one underworld to another. Max Payne is a conventional cop-vengeance thriller with a supernatural twist.
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