If you played the game you will love the movie.

Max Payne - The movie based on the game with the same name created by Sam Lake presents the life of a detective - Max Payne(Mark Wahlberg) who’s wife and son were killed by 3 robbers and if he would have gotten home 10 minutes earlier he could have saved them.  He killed 2 of the robbers but never got the 3rd one, and thats why he transferred himself to the unable to solve cases section.

Since the murder of his wife he’s been pursuing leads that lead to dead ends. Till one day when he went to one of his informers where he met a russian chick who wanted to sleep with him. Max throws out the chick and the next day his former partner asks Max about her.

It turns out that the chick got slaughtered and Max’s wallet was found there. Max denies all charges, Alex discovers a resemblance(tattoo) between the russian chick and Max’s deceased wife. He tries to speak to Max but he gets murdered.

Max teams up with Mona Sax(the russian chick’s sister) and they find out that the wings tattoo is for protection. Later Max will find out that his old friend P.B killed his wife and it was all because of a drug their pharmaceutical company developed which created super soldiers.

The drug worked only on 1% of the test candidates, the rest had terrifying hallucinations and died. P.B puts 2 vials of the drug into Max’s pocket and wants to kill him creating a suicide scene. Max escapes and jumps into the freezing water from where he manages to get out to shore.

He can barely move so he drinks the vials and starts seeing demonic angels. He gets back up on his feet and goes back to the company where he kills more than a dozen soldiers, gets shot with a shotgun, an uzzi and still manages to Kill P.B and survive. Along with his survival his hallucinations dissappear.

Slayer’s Thoughts

The movie was great and captivating. At first i thought that they used fake snow, but later i read that the movie was shot in march near Torronto(CA). Also when the death angels first appeared and in a scene they pulled out a guy from the window i thought that they really existed. Only when they talked about the drug i figured out that it was just a hallucination.

I really liked that in the movie actors from Prison Break(Amaury Nolasco) and Heroes(Brea Grant) starred. It was in the same time weird and cool.

I gave the movie a 4.5/5 rating because the survival of Max is exagerated: he’s got no vest and he still survives a bullet in the arm, shotgun shells in his shoulder and 2 uzzi bullets in his chest.

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