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Max Payne

Ho hum. Making money as an actor is really easy work...

The latest videogame-to-movie adaptation has met with a poor reception from the critics. The plotline, such as it is, serves merely to string numerous action sequences together. Our hero is a cop, possibly dirty, who lost his wife and kid to a killer a while back. He has dedicated himself to tracking down the killer, and hooks up with a female assassin who also has some issues with the killer he seeks. Inbetween lurching from one shootout to the next, he has to stay one step ahead of another cop investigating some suspicious deaths which may be linked to him.

99 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language, Violence)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.

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Credits
Cast	Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kurylenko
Director	John Moore
Screenplay	Beau Thorne, based on the video game by Sam Lake
Music	Marco Beltrami
Cinematography	Jonathan Sela
Editing	Dan Zimmerman
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Abandon Entertainment, Collision Entertainment, Depth Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, Firm Films, Foxtor Productions
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action
Language	Moderate to strong, fairly frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	Very brief seductive scene
Violence	Frequent, fairly intense, strongly implied
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Some blasphemy
Drug abuse	Jallucinatory effects of non-recreational drugs are shown which are very disturbing
Comments	The impact of this movie is fairly strong and it is very dark.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith	5
Die BurgerSonette Lombaard	5
Cape TimesChristy Lemire	1
The CitizenBruce Dennill	4
24.comRonald Bach	5
International Media
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	10
Metacritic.com24 critics	6
RottenTomatoes.com88 critics	8
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	4
Internet (IMDB)7228 Netizens	12

Average .. 30%	6

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