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*Spoilers* This is rubbish
A Customer from London,
27th April, 2009
Gosh, where to start? This was on a par with Constantine, it was that dire. Firstly, and this is probably the main point where this film falls down, the main character in films like this is meant to be a real badass, who can handle himself in a fight or shootout in an impressive manner. In Max Payne, Marky Mark just spends most of his time trying to look menacing, whilst running away from people shooting at him, getting beaten up by drug-enhanced bad guys and not actually doing much ass-kicking until the last 10 minutes, when he shoots a few people...then has a bit of a breakdown before shooting a defenceless middle-aged man. The head drug-enhanced bad guy is quite an interesting character, who could be great in a final showdown, but gets shot by the middle-aged man instead. The main bad guy (so completely obvious, it was hardly worth attempting to make his identity a secret at all) is not particularly intimidating. In fact, he is the middle-aged man. All in all, Max Payne doesn't really do much to warrant a film being made about the character. Secondly, what the hell is going on with the drug, and why do the characters take it? The general idea was that a very small percentage of the people who take the drug become strong. The rest go mental and start seeing Valkyrie demons, who seem to take great pleasure in killing the druggies in gruesome ways. So people take the drug, which seems to give them no discernible pleasure and sends them crazy so that they can see demons that try to kill them. Why? Also, what is the significance of the tattoos that the druggies have? Is it meant to protect them from the demons, or show allegiance to the demons? Because they seem to get killed by them either way. And are the demons meant to be real or hallucinations? I would say that they were meant to be figments of the druggies' imaginations, except that they look the same in everyone's minds and they kill Olga (by far the best thing about the film and she dies right at the beginning. Idiots!) and pull some guy out of a window. And how come, if they're meant to be protective spirits that take warriors to heaven when they die on the battle field, they appear to be hellish demons who actively seek out people to kill? Plenty more to say about why this is rubbish and very little positive to say about it, but you get the idea.
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