Max Payne or Pain?

Being a hardcore fan of Max Payne 1 & 2 PC game, I went to watch Max Payne on its premiere day, well, let's say the cinema (GSC) is 10-15 peoples in one theater, the best environment to enjoy a movie, not those noisy hand phone ringing TGVs.

OK, to the point. Max Payne is a videogame that inspired by detective drama with noir kinda feel. so its like a movie based on a game that mimic movie style storytelling. When you watch the movie if you are playing the game, you will notice the similarity, the style, the music and the acting. In the game, we get the comic art (like Sin City type) slideshow cutscene with balloon dialog. Bear in mind, this game made bullet-time famous with to Matrix. But as much as I hope this feature in the movie, I dislike it. Its like they purposely did the bullet-time to please the gamer audience. They place the effect in the most wrong timing. Second is the storyline, you venture into deep dark secret of detective Max, from flashbacks to narration of his colleagues. And there is one thing i expect to see but disappointed, in the 2nd game, When Max is hospitalized and UI, we get to feel the drousiness and the screen is like our mabuk vision. Instead, after Max took the Valkyr liquid, he's like Mario after getting the Star.

But then my review is based on a hardcore Max Payne fan point of view. I don't know bout non fans, I hope they enjoy as much as I am. Nevertheless I give this movie.... 7.5/10 score

and also we don't need Ludacris' IA character, pretty much nothing useful in the movie storyline.