For fanboy devotees of the videogame on which it is based, Max Payne is pure pleasure. But everyone else may not want to take this walk on the dark side.
Story
Max Payne started life as a popular 2001 videogame and now the dark, dreary material has morphed into feature film that tries to give a back story for the tortured title character. Payne’s (Mark Wahlberg) wife and newborn baby are tragically killed and now Max, a DEA agent, is involved in the investigation of a series of murders that could provide a link to solving the mystery of his family’s demise. Demons, in the form of a winged serpents, haunt Max — but nothing real or imagined will stand in the way of his quest. He teams with a beautiful Russian mobster and assassin, Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), whose sister Natasha (Olga Kurylenko) is also killed, giving equal reason to seek revenge. Complicating matters is Max’s mentor B.B. (Beau Bridges), an ex-cop who now does security for a large pharmaceutical company which may hold the key to the mystery. Forces — both real and hidden — are hard at work to keep Max, who is clearly fighting his inner demons, from reaching his goal.
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