This movie is quite bad on every conceivable level.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 9, 2024

...has a supernatural subtext that feels bolted on to the hard-boiled feel of the game...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 7, 2021

Max is possibly the first game character to be better acted in his game than he is in his movie, John Woo-inspired action is almost entirely dropped and the film is just dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2020

[I]t's all looks and no brain.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2019

The rain in Payne falls on dialogue inane.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2014

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Some of these slow-mo-shooter moments, however, veer toward parody.

| Jul 7, 2010

Payneful

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 3, 2009

Never comes close to captivating its audience like the game did before it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 1, 2009

The willfully absurd action sequences help the movie slog along, but slog it does, right through to the obligatory after-credits scene to establish the possibility of a franchise.

| Original Score: 20/100 | Apr 7, 2009

Based on a Finnish shoot-em up video game, Max Payne is all style and little story, cheerless detective Max (Mark Wahlberg) drifting through a washed out and snowy New York in search of his wife's killer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2009

It held my attention, which is more than I can say for some of the so-called "art films" that come out at the end of every year.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2009

A detective story, a pharmaceutical miracle drug and winged creatures from some demonic dimension sprouting like weeds in the spring. Too much and too artificial.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2009

Imagine The Constant Gardener after a frontal lobotomy, and that's basically Max Payne in a nutshell.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 26, 2008

[A]ll [the] wide-open possibilities about where this story can go get so narrowed down into something banal and bleak and ordinary that you can hardly breathe with it...

| Nov 19, 2008

This tired, neutered action thriller won't cause you max pain, but you might wince every now and again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2008

John Moore directs the hell out of the action, while Jonathan Sela's glistening photography captures the snow and rain that fall on these bloody New York streets. But you'd have to be on crack not to guess the 'surprise' finale.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 14, 2008

Among the best films adapted from videogames. Say no more.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 14, 2008

Mark Wahlberg's titular hero hasn't cracked a smile in seven years. The surprise is that he makes the lonely cop seem half human with half a dozen words and a staggering amount of violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2008

The film combines ferocious self-importance with lashings of really nasty, unreflective violence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 14, 2008