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

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

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

I didn't hate Max Payne, but it's hard to summon up strong feelings of any kind about something so slick, remote and vacuum-packed you barely feel you've seen it.

| Nov 14, 2008

Mark Wahlberg glooms about the land in the latest computer-game makeover, a noir action thriller of such scowling, benighted violence that it could send manic depressives over the edge and make newcomers to that condition of us all.

| Nov 14, 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

Reasonably entertaining as long as you don't attempt to take any of it as seriously as it takes itself.

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

If you can follow the plotlines of this swingeing approximation of the well-known video game of the same name, you are a better customer for John Moore's spectacular thriller than I was.

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

This trashy film is a case of big guns and small brains.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2008

Max Payne is a junkyard dog of a film that is true to its video-game roots even as it transcends them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2008

The filmmakers aim their cynicism more at us than at any government or drug company.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Sexy girls and lots of automatic weapons are involved in an occasionally coherent plot.

| Oct 17, 2008

You can't help but wonder where the fine actor in The Departed and even Invincible has gone. It's not been a good year for Wahlberg: First The Happening, and now this.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2008

Maybe somebody decided the movie was already so convoluted and leaden that throwing in a few swooping, screeching valkyries could only help. They do not.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 17, 2008

The moviegoers are passive hostages on a long ride they've taken so many times before. So gameboys are advised to man their PlayStations this weekend; action-movie fans in search of red meat can wait for the inevitably more graphic DVD version.

| Oct 17, 2008

A movie that cares much more for poetic choreography in explosive gunfights than gaping lapses of logic in a flimsy crime narrative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2008

Max just drags on as it drags you down. If you stay and watch the endless end credits, there's a short scene that hints a sequel is coming. That's what I call real pain.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 17, 2008

Mark Wahlberg, who has proved himself a very capable actor, seems to have nominated himself for the Russell Crowe Lack of Charisma Award, and is running a pretty convincing campaign.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2008