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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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. :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Mark Wahlberg is a joke.. He plays the same role in every movie.. Something happens to either him and or his family, he goes out to get a sort of revenge on that person, and ends happily ever after. I despise him.