Max Payne

Theatrical Release Date: 2008 10 17 (USA)

UPC: 024543554738

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content]

Summary: 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. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Category: Action

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

Max Payne

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/20/2009

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS2.0 Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels

Runtime: 100 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: 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]

Cammila Collar

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). ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Thomas Karnowski  Executive Producer 
Marco Beltrami  Composer (Music Score) 
Karen J. Lauder  Executive Producer 
John Moore  Director 
John Moore  Producer 
Rick Yorn  Executive Producer 
Buck Sanders  Composer (Music Score) 
Julie Yorn  Producer 
Scott Faye  Producer 
Beau Thorne  Screenwriter 
Mark Wahlberg  Actor 
Mila Kunis  Actor 
Beau Bridges  Actor 
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges  Actor 
Olga Kurylenko  Actor 
Amaury Nolasco  Actor 
Chris O'Donnell  Actor 
Donal Logue  Actor 
Kate Burton  Actor 
Marianthi Evans  Actor 

Country: USA