The Max Payne movie trailer

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jul 10th 2008 at 12:25PM }

Maaax! Dearest of all our friends. After the break you'll find the trailer for the Max Payne movie, starring Marky Mark Wahlberg as the title character who knows how to deliver a noir monologue. The trailer gives us a glimpse of femme fatale Mona Sax and a taste of the guaranteed bullet time action. They've definitely captured the look and feel of the game, now we'll have to wait and see if the movie is any good.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]

Tags: mark-wahlberg, marky-mark, max-payne, max-payne-movie

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Shader @ Jul 10th 2008 12:50PM

I hope that hallucination level is the movie.

MuToiD_MaN @ Jul 10th 2008 12:58PM

You mean, ridiculously un-fun platforming challenges on inexplicably-walkable levitating blood trails while hearing the never-ending cries of a dead baby and the sobs of a dead woman, followed by the realization of being inside a video game? Count me in!!!

Ken Shammy @ Jul 10th 2008 12:59PM

Oh dear god.
I got a headache trying to finish that.

Brodie-san @ Jul 10th 2008 1:00PM

I hope you're being sarcastic!
;)

I remember reading the review of the game in Edge (they gave it 6/10) and they quoted the "hallucination maze interlude" as one of the worse ideas in gaming history.

It was a nice idea but awfully executed for the type of game it was. It literally required you to aimless wander around a maze of the same-looking corridors until you (by complete luck) made your way out. In a game where the majority of the gameplay was shooting lead into people's faces in slo-mo it was a tad ... incongruent to the overall flow of the game.

Blazur @ Jul 10th 2008 1:10PM

Can't imagine playing through that level while tripping.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Jul 10th 2008 1:24PM

@mutoid

Because those awkward platforming sections are so totally going to be in the game. IN THE MOVIE DURING THIS SECTION, PAYNE FALLS TO HIS DEATH 50 TIMES.

While I agree that the gameplay during those were annoying, they were nevertheless pretty cool and creepy. I do hope that it makes it into the movie.

FraGNeM @ Jul 10th 2008 1:37PM

To be fair, the hallucinogenic scenes in the second game were much better thought out and gameplay friendly.

KingOfGods @ Jul 10th 2008 1:44PM

It wasn"t pure luck...all you had to do was listen for the cries. the louder they were you were moving in the right direction.

Haggard @ Jul 10th 2008 5:20PM

I liked that section, but I was playing with mouse and keyboard.

diegwiito @ Jul 10th 2008 12:31PM

of course Ludacris is in it.... hahaha.
why did I almost expect that?

Hashbrown Hunter @ Jul 10th 2008 1:45PM

Well he was in Crash and he was actually good in it. And he looks ok so far.

And yeah this is actually a very impressive trailer. If it hits the same level as Hitman or Silent Hill than I wouldn't mine watching it as an awesome B-Movie.

Altairio @ Jul 10th 2008 2:30PM

LOL...Hitman was horrible dude.

kevin @ Jul 10th 2008 3:25PM

He's actually a decent actor, idk if you've ever seen him in anything... you should try before you judge

Dieguinho @ Jul 10th 2008 6:25PM

the point is not to judge his 'acting' skills but to poke fun at the fact that I feel like every B-movie or videogame movie has always a rapper in..........

but yeah... he was indeed great in 2 fast and 2 furious (another great movie)

;-)

Eric @ Jul 10th 2008 12:31PM

Wow, I am sort of impressed. Looks better then hit man. I never played the game so what is with the bird dude?

NATO_Duke @ Jul 10th 2008 12:38PM

I think they may tie into the norse mythology that the game highlighted. Maybe they are the valkyries that take fallen soldiers away.

Brodie-san @ Jul 10th 2008 1:25PM

As NATO_Dude states, the game was made by Finnish developers and they incorporated a lot of allusion towards Norse mythology (Ragnarok etc.)

There's also a heavy drugs theme in the game and at one point Max is injected with "Valkyr" (the new drug of choice) and trips the hell out (see other posts here about wandering in the blood-maze thingy). Though there is no "bird-men" in the game, I wouldn't be surprised if the film-makers extended the Norse theme and extended the use of the "Valkyries" motif when Max is stoned to symbolise death.

Or they've totally screwed with it and there's bird-men in the movie.
:)

Hashbrown Hunter @ Jul 10th 2008 1:46PM

Marky Mark VS. Norse Bird-Men FTW

Tristan @ Jul 10th 2008 4:03PM

In the last shot, the guy looks like he's yanked out of the window. But I'm wondering if that scene isn't a recreation of a level in the game where theres a baddie looking out a window and you get to sneak up behind him, kill him, and watch him fall in a mini cut-scene. I'm thinking he got blown out the window with a shotgun in reality and when the camera switches from indoors to outdoors, you're seeing the Norse flyboys take over.

WMain00 @ Jul 10th 2008 12:32PM

What's with the flying angel things?

Kevin @ Jul 10th 2008 12:40PM

Hopefully some of Max's hallucinations/dreams.

JerJer @ Jul 10th 2008 12:32PM

....

birdmen?

Ryan @ Jul 10th 2008 12:33PM

Not too shabby! I agree the look and feel are present... but honestly what was wrong with the original game's story? I think it would have fit a movie structure just fine.

ronald.raygun @ Jul 10th 2008 12:33PM

oh cool the new crow movie.

Mr.ESC @ Jul 10th 2008 12:35PM

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

*facepalm.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Jul 10th 2008 1:16PM

screw you. It looks awesome.

Boy With Balls on Chin @ Jul 10th 2008 1:26PM

I dont know about awesome, but it could be good.

Mr.ESC @ Jul 10th 2008 2:32PM

No u and over 9000 times.

The actor doesn't even look like Max.This is going to be like Hitman :/

Ian Murray @ Jul 10th 2008 2:40PM

Gotta agree, Mark Wahlberg will never be Max Payne.

The voice he was trying to use is absolute trash as well. It's just him trying to go into a gravelly lower register but his voice cracks and breaks and it sounds like shit.

At the very least, they could have auditioned some NEW actors for Max, so we could at least have hope that he wasn't going to blow it.

kaneda @ Jul 10th 2008 4:07PM

To you Wahlberg haters, while I'll agree that he is not the first guy I think of when I think Max Payne, he is a very talented actor. Furthermore, any hopes for this movie to be any good rely solely on star power, simply because big names draw the crowd and producers aren't gonna put money behind a movie that isn't gonna draw a crowd. More money = less limits for a good director, though also means compromises. We'll see. But Wahlberg is probably the only reason this bird got off the ground.

Residentevil72501 @ Jul 10th 2008 12:36PM

Wow this looks awesome. ALot better than i imagined it would be honestly.

Ethan @ Jul 10th 2008 12:37PM

Mark Wahlberg hasn't quite captured the shitty jump the part requires.

LordChimp @ Jul 10th 2008 12:37PM

I think it looks alright. Nothing great but seems it will be enjoyable.

SmartriX @ Jul 10th 2008 12:39PM

I sure hope those angel things are just metaphors for death or something similar in the movie and they don't really turn out to be an element in the story. They captured the look and feel really well, I'm not gonna judge until I see more, looks cool.

Lijik @ Jul 10th 2008 12:41PM

Are there seriously weird angel-like birdmen in the games?

MuToiD_MaN @ Jul 10th 2008 12:54PM

No. No there are not.

Lijik @ Jul 10th 2008 1:15PM

Awesome. Its Super Mario Bros. The Movie all over again.

arrrgh @ Jul 10th 2008 4:33PM

I posted this, but it needs to be on the first page

Just to straighten some stuff up,

the movie borrows heavily from this quote

Max Payne: Valkyr had been meant to be a white-winged maiden that would lift you to a warrior's heaven. But it turned out to be a one-way demon ride to hell. The devil was in the drug. I knew. I had met him.

Also, FX wise, you aint seen nothin yet ;)

before any kids go yelling about "angels" and stuff. rest assured.

born2expire @ Jul 10th 2008 12:42PM

wow, looks craptacular.

i totally disagree about the feeling, it feels like a made for spiketv sin city rip off, yes i know max payne was highly influenced by sin city, and film noir. but this is something i cant get behind.

born2expire @ Jul 10th 2008 12:50PM

this is gonna be just like the omen remake (by the same director) it will miss all the subtilties of what made the game great.

glad to see they have shawn ryan writing.

I'm sure the "angels" in the trailer will be some sort of Valkyr educed hallucination.

Brodie-san @ Jul 10th 2008 12:52PM

"Yes i know max payne was highly influenced by sin city".

Max Payne the game? Or this new movie ?

Cause the Max Payne game came out in 2001 (I think) and Sin City 2005.

Either way this looks fairly standard fair. I never played the sequel but wasn't Mona Sax (Sox? Sex? whatever) only in the second game? Looks like they're talking bits from each and adding in a good chunk of their own.

As long as there's a scene in it where Max beats a junkie over the head with a baseball bat* it has my €9.

*Forget bullet time. Best part of the game was junkie-beatdown.

Xoviet chiK @ Jul 10th 2008 12:56PM

Sin City the Graphic Novel... Book one was published in 1991.

Asystole @ Jul 10th 2008 1:01PM

Brodie-san: Uh, you DO realize that the movie Sin City was created from the comic book series Sin City that was created back in 1991 and which is where the story and look of the movie Sin City came from. I'm sure that's probably what he was referring to.