Payneful to Watch?
September 27th 2008 04:04
Max Payne Trailer OPINION
Disclaimer: I’m not a movie-hater or expect all games to turn into crappy movies. I’m a gamer who likes playing games and watching movies too.
I’ve played both Max Payne and its stellar sequel, and what I got out of em is a captivating Noir story and action game. Now as far as I know, Noir was created as a genre for the movies, so what would be much better than a Noir-style videogame than an actual movie? In this case, Max Payne the movie should be as good, or even better, than the game on paper.
Now all I came out of watching the trailer is Max Payne in a full on ACTION movie, without the Noir feel like the game. And what the hell is with the “Dark Angel”? Max Payne isn’t Constantine or Ethan from Condemned. Max Payne never had to deal with Angels, in fact, I think the only hint of supernatural fantasy in the games is the overzealous devil worshippers who really thought they are possessed by the devil . At least the creators seem to fit in the devil-worshipping bullet fonder from the first game.
But what summed up the game for me is the infamous dream sequence. Max Payne is mindf***ed and the world around him in the game reflects that. What makes him hard and kept him alive for so long is that he looks at the scum and he boots them right in the face. To raid an entire building from the first floor to the last filled with drug-filled henchmen in the first game is insane and set up the game nicely. You can literally see the insanity in his face. I reckon he can more than handle the Punisher in the angst department, but Mark Wahlberg in the trailer doesn’t look like his family just got killed before his eyes. For crying out loud Ethan from Condemned 2 looked nothing like himself in the first game for good reason.
I know this is a fanboyish complaint but what the hell is with Mark Wahlberg’s hair? It’s his hair, not Max Payne’s, I associate more with Max Payne 1’s hairdo than in Max Payne 2, but at least the second game made it up with a great story. If Robert De Niro can gain 60 pounds half way through Raging Bull, certainly Mark Wahlberg can grow his hair a bit longer.
I feel like he is too pretty for the role, but if Transformers made me accept the flying version of Megatron as equal to the gun version in the 1st generation TV series, than Mark Wahlberg might pull it off.
So there is still hope for this movie in my eyes, but the expectation bar is not high. I’m going to watch this movie and forget it’s not a video game adaptation; maybe I’ll enjoy the movie more. Fingers crossed the bad feeling that this might be another Doom movie isn’t right.
Gamerverdict: **
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