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Max Payne 2008

Directed by John Moore · 100 mins · 1,739 views

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Synopsis

A DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death, join forces to solve a series of murders in New York City.

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  1. 1
    19oldboy91 8 月 25, 2026

    English Version below🟠🟢🔵 Die 2000er-Sehnsucht trifft auf den Frank „Die Filmsammlung“ Costello (Film_Sammlung), John „Die historische Brotkrumme“ Shaft (HistoBrot), die Lara „Ich überlebe selbst Frankfurter-Bahnhöfe“ Croft (Glimmerman96), und mir, Robert „Ich grabe alte Jungs aus“ Langdon (Oldboy) John Woo trifft auf die 2000er / Mark Wahlberg trifft auf die 2000er / Matrix + Sin City treffen auf die 2000er / der Style over Substance trifft auf die 2000er / der Simon trifft auf die 2000er Und besagter Simon (Grüße gehen hinaus) sah und bekam hier die beste John Woo-Hommage herrlichster Action-Szenen um die Ohren fliegenden Trümmer-Konfetti, nicht weniger einen noch bei besagtem Simon funktionierenden Mark Wahlberg frei von „ich hau dir gleich in die Fresse, ob du mich auf der…

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  2. P
    PT99 8 月 25, 2026

    My dad wept. 2/10

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  3. S
    Sam🦧 8 月 25, 2026

    “Protection from what?” “Huh?” “What do you mean huh?” Gotta say I was invested throughout with this gripping dialogue, as well as the performance of a lifetime from Marky Mark. There’s good bad, then there’s 100 mins of Mark Wahlberg waddling in a trench coat and pulling faces like he’s in desperate need to shit. Surely it can’t be that hard to make a Max Payne movie.

    135 4
  4. G
    gorphead57 8 月 25, 2026

    Blud thinks he’s the crow. Mediocre entertainment that will provide you a fun enough time but won’t add anything to the genre and will probably leave your memory within a day. 3.5/10 Grade C

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  5. B
    Bailey 8 月 25, 2026

    So this is what sucre got up to after prison break then

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  6. E
    Eric Szyszka 8 月 25, 2026

    You’ve heard of Sin City, well get ready for Dim City.

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  7. M
    Matt Singer 8 月 25, 2026

    Why in the drugged-out vision of hell does this movie have a post-credits scene? Did they really think this piece of junk was getting a sequel?!?

    376 2
  8. R
    Ryley Mann 8 月 25, 2026

    Worse than the clap?????? Every one has a movie that they call there least favorite/most hated. For some, it’s Jack and Jill. For some, it’s The Phantom Menace. For some others, It’s Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. What is it for me you’re asking? Well, it’s this ABORTION of a movie. For those of you who don’t know, this is an adaption of the 2001 video game masterpiece. A action noir crime game. In it, you play as Max Payne, a cop who comes home one night who comes home to find his wife and daughter murdered by a bunch of junkies under the new drug called V. He kills the druggies, but loses his family. With loss of grief…

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  9. G
    Geoff T 8 月 25, 2026

    Talk about ruined potential. For you non-gamers out there, one of my favourite game franchises is Max Payne, a third-person shooter series defined by it’s blood-soaked John Woo-inspired gunplay and a gritty neo-noir aesthetic. I even find the divisive third instalment to be an excellent game in its own right. In other words, it was the kind of game just asking for a film adaptation. Of course, all you need to do to mess that up is to hire a director like John Moore, who has as much understanding of Max Payne as he did when making the fifth Die Hard, which unsurprisingly is not very much at all. Loosely (and I stress the term “loosely”) based on the first…

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    Kylo 8 月 25, 2026

    For some reason, I thought this was a Jack Reacher movie, so I was very confused by all the flying shadows. Mark Wahlberg really suits these roles, and I loved the colour palette.

    94
  11. C
    Christian Di Leo 8 月 25, 2026

    Seeing one of my all-time favourite video games be butchered by Hollywood definitely provided me with Max(imum) Payne. 1 ½ stars for the hilarious shotgunning physics, great pyrotechnics & squibwork, the pretty good but wasted production design, and the Marky Mark Kaiju roar. Unrated version > Theatrical version, if you ever consider watching this poorly-edited, horribly miscast, but at least super stylized/visually interesting piece of shit. 🌨🏙👮🏻‍♂️🗂🗄👩🏻👶🗡🤪🧚🏿‍♂️⚗️🧪👨🏽‍🦲🥵🪖🤸‍♂️🔫🪶💊🏢🌨

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  12. A
    Akhil_047 8 月 22, 2026

    This Movie wasn’t able to provide justice to the Original Game as it was a MASTERPIECE. PERIOD. The story had so much to present but the Makers did not try enough to make this an Iconic Game-Adaptation Movie.

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    Thiago Barbosa 8 月 22, 2026

    fiquei triste pensando que o sam lake teve que assistir isso

  14. T
    Timtoons 8 月 21, 2026

    I’ll give credit where it is due, the cinematography is nice and the atmosphere is great. But it feels to much like a generic action movie rather than Max Payne. And this is coming from someone who has played the games.

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    hansenhansen 8 月 20, 2026

    bruh this shit so buns, the longer i watched it the more i was like wtf am i watching and this is such a waste of time i should’ve checked rotten tomatoes this shit literally was rated 16% nah this shit was so buns bruh omg 😭😭😭 got me thinking like do i even like marky mark? i think i do but why he got so many ass movies dog? like you making it real hard for me to like…

  16. A
    Antonio 8 月 20, 2026

    As someone who grew up loving Rockstar’s Max Payne, this movie hurts on a different level. It takes the noir atmosphere, bullet time and tortured Max aesthetic but somehow strips away the soul that made the game special. Mark Wahlberg looks the part, but this feels like Max Payne cosplay without the fucking pain, monologues or personality that made the game iconic.

    2
  17. B
    benben10000 8 月 20, 2026

    Not sure this needed the monsters but it really wasn’t that good anywhere else either so who knows

  18. U
    u_punk 8 月 20, 2026

    Oyunu ne kadar iyiyse filmi o kadar kötü

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    V_Bay 8 月 20, 2026

    Hat nichts, aber auch überhaupt nichts mit dem Game zu tun. Da hatte jemand ein beschissenes Drehbuch vor sich liegen und dachte: Ja was nun? Am besten Etikett drauf klatschen, was gerade irgendwie bekannt ist und dann passt schon. Fürchterlich. Ganz fürchterlich.

  20. B
    brosen 8 月 19, 2026

    Movie blows. Saw it in theaters and reviewed it for the school newspaper.

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    MCisoFox 8 月 19, 2026

    I remember how excited my friends and I were for this one. We had all played the Max Payne video games and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to bring the game’s dark and brilliant story to the big screen. At the time, I lived in a small town where the movie wasn’t even showing at the local cinema. So, around the time of its release, we traveled to a neighboring town to see it in the theater. The…

    4
  22. D
    Dave 8 月 19, 2026

    Look, it has visual style to burn, but the script is awful, Wahlberg and Kunis are badly miscast, and the film is loaded with moments that desperately want to come off as badass and are instead laughably absurd. At least it has Beau Bridges and Ludacris in its favour.

  23. D
    Dabbenstein95 8 月 19, 2026

    Really boring and nonsensical at points.

  24. R
    Ryan Bonilla 8 月 18, 2026

    We got a Max Payne movie before a GTA one

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    hakines 8 月 18, 2026

    I played the game twice and I can only say that the movie based on it is not very good, some plot lines were completely cut (Which is partly understandable, because a movie can’t be 5+ hours long), some were completely reworked so that it does not fit the plot, for example Alex was not killed on Roscoe Street (there is a scene in the movie when max is at the station, for me it makes no sense)

  26. A
    arda0770 8 月 18, 2026

    Oyunu oynadıysanız izlemeyin,oynamadıysanız yine izlemeyin.Birde şu ana karakter ne uncharted ne Max Payne yakışmış.

    1
  27. Y
    Yetcha 8 月 17, 2026

    Avec quelques beaux plans et plusieurs gunfights très sympas, le scénario tient sur une ligne et le parallèle avec le jeu du même nom est quasi inexistant! Sympa mais vraiment sans plus!

  28. R
    Ruth 8 月 17, 2026

    No se parece al juego pero me gusta mucho la estética.

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    𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓴 8 月 17, 2026

    worst movie i’ve ever seen i was expecting a lot, i thought that maybe 60% of the game’s plot is going to be in this movie, but i was wrong. how badly do you have to fuck up the NEW plot you made up 😭 who the fuck is Natasha Sax!? 😭 it seems like the director only took the characters (and the drug’s name) and made up his own story (which was shit). i fell asleep for like five…

    2
  30. B
    BruceIllest 8 月 16, 2026

    Watched this a few times over the years, feels like I’m in the minority of people that didn’t find it bad. Comparing to the game is always going to doom it, the majority of live action adaptations suck. This flattens and simplifies it but it isn’t a bad watch, comparison is the thief of joy in this. Best angel/Valkyrie horror within a film, very well done aspect to it. Casting is a bit odd. I suppose Clive Owen or Idris…

  31. E
    EmoAsh1 8 月 16, 2026

    Idea is great, execution on the other hand…

  32. C
    Can 8 月 16, 2026

    max pain🤧

  33. S
    Sanskar 8 月 15, 2026

    ???????????????

    1
  34. D
    davethemann 8 月 15, 2026

    I feel like this would be a better movie if you didnt know there was a game out there, that did this story way better and organized its plot way better. Unpopular opinion, Wahlberg actually does a decent job as Max, its just the shit they feed him to do stinks for a nice chunk of this. I like the style and for lack of a better word, the intent to go on, but man, its just not a great end product to roll with sadly.

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    Iván 8 月 15, 2026

    Podés reversionar el juego mientras mantengas, la esencia, el punto del juego, etc, acá no se mantuvo, al menos la atmósfera sí estuvo bastante bien, parece más una libre interpretación de Constantine que Max Payne

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    steakchalupa 8 月 15, 2026

    An infected, spasming, open wound of a film where a decade’s worth of action and cop media is cannibalized and repurposed while an elite cabal drags the world to hell through the dissemination of a drug that literally shows its users Hell. A bunch of broken people try to pick up the pieces of their lives as they slide further into the abyss, a hidden network of sin and evil forces molesting the world and breeding all manner of new…

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  37. D
    Dylan Draper 8 月 15, 2026

    The story is silly, Beau Bridges is phoning it in and Mark Wahlberg is playing a convincing piece of tree bark, but visually it looks great.

  38. B
    bensony 8 月 15, 2026

    max pain why is everything in slow mo

  39. M
    Maurilio Gabriel 8 月 15, 2026

    chaparam legal aqui

  40. S
    SnozTeach 8 月 14, 2026

    Le scénario n’a aucun sens, les performances d’acteurs sont vomitive, le montage est fait a la truelle, le jeu max payne est un meilleur film max payne que le film max payne

  41. A
    Aidan Clark 8 月 14, 2026

    A fun action movie with comical amounts of gun play, for a PG-13 rating. Keep in mind that this story is NOT a 1-1 retelling of the video game. It takes some liberties which becomes increasingly obvious.

  42. L
    Liam Oettinger 8 月 14, 2026

    this game is so good. If you’ve never played you need to. They pretty much perfected bullet time. This movie? It perfected ear and eye cancer!!

    1
  43. A
    a2371259 8 月 12, 2026

    游戏很接受不了啊这玩意儿谁看呢吗我的天老爷呀这种烂片我接受不了了已经我的天呐剧情我也不想说什么逼玩意呢

  44. G
    gonzzita 8 月 12, 2026

    Realmente se parece poco y nada a la saga de Max Payne Si la pelicula tenia un nombre cualquiera, quizas safaba un poquito mas.

  45. T
    thalles12 8 月 12, 2026

    É esquisito e legal ao mesmo tempo, incógnita

  46. A
    Adam 8 月 12, 2026

    Not exactly a titan amongst fun bad movie watches but as far as bad movies go…. Not too bad! Sort of a shocking amount of competence behind the shot compisitions and editing. Requisite lack of competence behind writing an interesting story and batshit drug induced hallucinogenic visions

  47. G
    gavinevans 8 月 11, 2026

    I’ll give the movie this… I like some of the visuals. But the story is so bland and generic and never fun. I’ll forget this movie entirely by next week.

  48. Э
    Эraj Nazarov 8 月 11, 2026

    “I don’t know about heaven. But I do believe in angels”.

    2
  49. A
    Adam Sayers 8 月 11, 2026

    There’s so many people having bad drug trips in this movie it might as well been an ad for staying sober, also so many big names but alas this is another time that Hollywood poorly adapted a much better and deeper video game

    1
  50. A
    Angst Kitsch 8 月 11, 2026

    It’s cinematography does a decent job of capturing the atmosphere of the first couple of Max Payne games, but that’s mostly all it gets right. Occaisonally veers into camp in some of its dumber somehow-totally-straight-faced moments (i.e.: “I don’t believe in heaven. I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death.”), but it has far too little or action or intrigue to squeeze anything more than a few drops of ironic enjoyment out of.

  51. C
    CosmoKuma 8 月 10, 2026

    My favorite level in Max Payne is the insane drug angel fight

  52. T
    The Mutilator 8 月 10, 2026

    A mi no me importa lo que digan los demás, a mi si me gustó la película, los demás pueden comer tierra

  53. S
    SorenKnudsen 8 月 10, 2026

    Fuck the payne away

  54. M
    Moose Allen 8 月 10, 2026

    “Calm down, Joe” This movie sucks. I figured “ehhh 18 years has been long enough to try and watch this again” Fuck me running. What a horrid idea. There’s maybe like two redeemable moments in this movie and one is for the wrong reason. First off, the movie does kinda start off well but then quickly derails into garbage nonsense. The other being that Mark Whalberg barges into a room emptying out a magazine and screaming while high as shit.…

  55. F
    FootballFILMS 8 月 10, 2026

    8.6

  56. F
    Fahad 8 月 9, 2026

    جدا سيئ العب اللعبه ولا تتابعه

    1
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    John Mathews 8 月 9, 2026

    All style, no substance. Over-stylized to the point of looking ugly at that.

    7
  58. H
    Hazem El-Bitar 8 月 9, 2026

    Just play the game instead

  59. S
    sammbag 8 月 9, 2026

    Would have loved staying up until 2am to watch this on Showcase when I was 13

    2
  60. J
    Jason 8 月 9, 2026

    Ascends from garden-variety dumb guy movie to weapons-grade dumb guy movie in the last 15 minutes. I wonder what percentage of men would predict themselves to be among the 1% of the populace for whom the supersoldier drug works. 30%?

    3
  61. R
    RaiyyanAbbas 8 月 5, 2026

    Decent action flick 👊

  62. J
    June Noriega 7 月 31, 2026

    hey let’s take one of the most delightful gaming experiences ever crafted and suck every ounce of life out of it. noir pastiche minus the pastiche, so… just bad noir. like REALLY bad. impossible to give a fuck abt anything that happens here. the only ppl who could make a good max payne movie are like. Illya Naishuller, Edgar Wright… idk. somebody with a sense of humor and a brain for compelling action sequences.

    1
  63. F
    Fardah Salsabila 4 月 29, 2026

    Miserable man

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    Lukeh100 2 月 22, 2025

    How the fuck do you miss up a Max Payne movie the game already had a strong story but the changes they made made no sense one of the worse video game movies I’ve seen they really missed out by not having Sam Lake not do anything for this movie

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    Owen ThatGuy 1 月 14, 2025

    as someone who only played the Max Paine 3 (Rockstar) game this movie sucked

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M Mark Wahlberg Max Payne
M Mila Kunis Mona Sax
B Beau Bridges BB Hensley
L Ludacris Jim Bravura
C Chris O'Donnell Jason Colvin
D Donal Logue Alex Balder
A Amaury Nolasco Jack Lupino
K Kate Burton Nicole Horne
O Olga Kurylenko Natasha
R Rothaford Gray Joe Salle
J Joel Gordon Owen Green
J Jamie Hector Lincoln Deneuf
A Andrew Friedman Trevor
M Marianthi Evans Michelle Payne
N Nelly Furtado Christa Balder
J Jay Hunter Pawnshop Man
M Maxwell McCabe-Lokos Doug
K Kjartan Hewitt Kid
S Stephen R. Hart Tattoo Artist Owner
M Martin 'Mako' Hindy Demon
Director John Moore
Writer Beau Thorne
Producer Peter Veverka, Julie Yorn, John Moore, Scott Faye
Executive Producer Karen Lauder, Tom Karnowski, Rick Yorn
Editor Dan Zimmerman
Original Music Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Sound Ron Bartlett, Jay Wilkinson, Glen Gauthier, Doug Hemphill
Stunts Jimmy N. Roberts, John Stoneham Jr., Angelica Lisk-Hann
Art Direction Andrew M. Stearn
Casting Mindy Marin
Synopsis
A DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death, join forces to solve a series of murders in New York City.
Director
John Moore
Writer
Beau Thorne
Studio
Dune Entertainment, Abandon Entertainment, Collision Entertainment, Depth Entertainment
Country
USA, Canada
Language
English, Russian, Spanish
Year
2008
Runtime
100 mins

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