Max Payne

Director: John Moore, John M. Moore

Overview

Rockstar Games' double-gunned action franchise comes to the big screen thanks to director John Moore (The Omen) and Mark Wahlberg, who embodies the title character of Max Payne, a widowed cop hell-bent on delivering justice no matter what the cost as he investigates a string of killings in his city. Mila Kunis and Chris O'Donnell head up the supporting cast, with Beau Thorne adapting the screenplay for the 20th Century Fox production.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/20/2009
UPC:	0024543554738
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	20th Century Fox
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	9,013

Special Features

Commentary by director John Moore, production designer Daneil Dorrance and visual effects supervisor Everett Burrell; Includes both the theatrical version and never-before seen unrated cut of the film

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mark Wahlberg	Max Payne
Mila Kunis	Mona Sax
Beau Bridges	BB Hensley,Jim Bravura
Chris O'Donnell	Jason Colvin
Donal Logue	Alex Balder
Amaury Nolasco	Jack Lupino
Kate Burton	Nicole Horne
Olga Kurylenko	Natasha
Lt. Jim Bravura	Lt. Jim Bravura
Rothaford Gray	Joe Salle
Nelly Furtado	Actor
Marianthi Evans	Michelle Payne
Jamie Hector	Actor
Kjartan Hewitt	Kid
Stephen R. Hart	Tattoo Artist Owner
Martin Hindy	Demon
Herbert Johnson	Train Attendant
Warren Belle	Detective
Ted Atherton	Detective Shipman
Pj Lazic	Junkie
Brandon Carrera	Young Cop
Joshua Barilko	Ragna Rok Guard #1
Conrad Pla	Captain Bowen
Go?chy Boy	Doorman
Carlos Gonzalez-Vio	Man Who Gets Dosed With Drug
Barrington Bignall	Nude Person Making Out
James Preston Rogers	Nude Person Making Out
Genadijs Dolganovs	Enforcer
Ludacris	Actor
Marco Beltrami	Composer
Buck Sanders	Composer

Technical Credits

Beau Thorne

Sam Lake

Beau Thorne	Screenwriter
Scott Faye	Producer
John Moore	Producer,Stunts
Julie Yorn	Producer,Executive Producer,Producer
Karen Lauder	Executive Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Tom Karnowski	Executive Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Sam Lake	Screenwriter
Adnan Ahmed	Special Effects
Ron Bartlett	Sound Effects
Jim Brookshire	Sound Effects
Derek Casari	Sound Effects
Nick Alachiotis	Stunts
Peter Veverka	Producer
Cameron Patterson	Special Effects
Jason Detheridge	Special Effects
Tommy Chang	Stunts
Flint Eagle	Stunts
Tom Farr	Stunts
Plato Fountidakis	Stunts
Susan Horton	Stunts
Henry Korhonen	Stunts
Steve Lucescu	Stunts
Christopher McGuire	Stunts
Duncan McLeod	Stunts
Raymond Sammel	Stunts
Steve 'Shack' Shackleton	Stunts
Sylvesta Stuart	Stunts
Ron Webber	Stunts
Mindy Marin	Casting
Glen Gauthier	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Max Payne
1. Drowning [1:31]
2. Cold Case Unit [2:20]
3. Nice Watch [2:23]
4. New Friends [1:17]
5. Natasha [1:17]
6. Crime Scene [2:50]
7. Connections [2:14]
8. Too Late [2:49]
9. Grief and Blame [2:50]
10. Internal Affairs [2:27]
11. Tattoo Link [2:49]
12. Unlikely Ally [4:13]
13. Valkyrie Protection [2:02]
14. Devil's Army [1:21]
15. Ten Minutes [1:32]
16. Jason Tells All [4:07]
17. Firefight [2:15]
18. Combat Edge [1:14]
19. Invincible [1:29]
20. Kingpin [1:06]
21. Not Yet [2:00]
22. Valkyr Effects [2:02]
23. On the Run [2:02]
24. Unstoppable [6:28]
25. Showdown [3:32]
26. Angel Vision [1:02]
27. End Titles [1:37]
28. Unfinished Business [2:14]
1. Drowning [1:31]
2. Cold Case Unit [2:20]
3. Nice Watch [2:23]
4. New Friends [1:17]
5. Natasha [1:17]
6. Crime Scene [2:50]
7. Connections [2:14]
8. Too Late [2:49]
9. Grief and Blame [2:50]
10. Internal Affairs [2:27]
11. Tattoo Link [2:49]
12. Unlikely Ally [4:13]
13. Valkyrie Protection [2:02]
14. Devil's Army [1:21]
15. Ten Minutes [1:32]
16. Jason Tells All [4:07]
17. Firefight [2:15]
18. Combat Edge [1:14]
19. Invincible [1:29]
20. Kingpin [1:06]
21. Not Yet [2:00]
22. Valkyr Effects [2:02]
23. On the Run [2:02]
24. Unstoppable [6:28]
25. Showdown [3:32]
26. Angel Vision [1:02]
27. End Titles [1:37]
28. Unfinished Business [2:14]

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Editorial Reviews

Video-game adaptations have a deservedly bad reputation, probably because most of them suck. The heart of the problem is probably the fact that you're basing your screen-story on something created in a medium where story isn't really necessary. Max Payne, however, finds a loophole in this conundrum, because it's a movie based on a game that was already sort of based on movies. The video game of Max Payne is mostly just your basic third-person shooter -- the way it defines itself is through its modern-noir style. That's the key element that the movie ran with, and as a result, it isn't half bad. It's your basic hardboiled detective story, in which the titular hero strives tirelessly to solve the mystery of why his wife and child were murdered years before. The past is shown in golden-hued images of happy sunlight, while everything pictured in the present day is depicted in blue-filtered New York winter bleakness. Mark Wahlberg is more or less perfect for the role of a tough-guy rogue cop, and over the course of his super-gritty two-hour adventure, he gets to stoically stare down the barrel of a drug ring, the Russian Bond girl from Quantum of Solace, a big pharmaceutical conspiracy, and Mila Kunis pointing a gun at his head in a dark alley (imagine the voice of Meg Griffin telling you to put your hands above your head). For a movie of its type, Max Payne is a little short on excitement and heavy on pathos, and there are lots of scenes where you can't believe people (namely Beau Bridges) are still talking. But when the action sequences happen, things get flat-out ridiculous, with fantastically crazy scenes where Wahlberg takes out fully armored, machine-gun-toting SWAT team members with nothing but a handgun and a European-style leather jacket. In the end, you can't really discount the fact that as action movies, neo-noir films, and video-game adaptations go, Max Payne is pretty cool -- and definitely not like anything else. It's not exactly an amazing movie, but it unquestionably breaks the curse laid down by its predecessors (okay, mostly by Uwe Boll).