DVD Review: Max Payne

The random plot formed through “Max Payne” prevents any plausible intellectual comprehension. The aspect of the movie that were there to enhance the story were drug out and overly predictable; not to spoilt the ending but it is pretty obvious who creates and administers the drug and who the Payne family murderer is.Any excessive thought to try and organize sporadic events just might cause max pain (in your head)
Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a depressed detective who’s search for his wife’s and baby’s killer succumbs him to antipathy towards all. The film takes place within a city with scenery just as depressed at Payne. It never stops snowing and every day is gloomy with an eerie grayish darkness. Payne is alienated from the rest of the police force, everyone hates him and suspects him (for what I am not exactly sure). The plot spirals out of control when Payne refuses to sleep with gorgeous Natisha Sax (Olga Kurylenko) who sequentially gets killed leaving his apartment and for some reason has Payne’s wallet; I assume the killer was trying to frame Payne. Natisha is the sister of female Russian assassin Mona Sax (Mila Kunis, Jackie from that 70’s show, but with a machine gun), who sporadically shows up to help Payne find the killer in order to avenge her sister’s death.
The City is faced with an epidemic of drug usage. A blue drug, Valkeryie, is being administered by an underground war lord and was created by a local pharmaceutical company to enhance and perfect a soldier’s capabilities to kill. The drug has an instantaneous addiction rate and causes its users to do anything to get more. Despite turning users into killing machines, the drug has an hallucinate side effect of seeing winged demons and devils that cause the users to go crazy.
I was relieved that the drug was causing the demons on the screen because initially I thought Max Payne was going to have to fight the monsters, which would have made even less sense. The overall story is hindered by an excessive attempt to add a Sin City type film-nior with random Matrix bullet time action scenes. The directing takes away from the story and makes the movie difficult to under stand. All aspects of the film come off overdone; random actions scenes with sexy girls and machine guns while Payne kills everyone in his path. The acting is hallow with little on screen connection wrapped around a dialogue that appeared forced and uncomfortable
Max Payne’s big climax was when Payne decided to take the drug in order to improve his fighting abilities and effectively hunt down the discovered killer. Marky Mark hopped up on a drug that sends him into a wild rage as he kills everyone in his path, shaking off shotgun shells and machine gun bullets that penetrate his body sounds awesome, but not in this movie. Wahlberg needs to find some better roles, The Happening, Max Payne, What’s next, rapping again?