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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Cast
- Mark WahlbergMax Payne
- Mila KunisMona Sax
- Beau BridgesBB Hensley
- LudacrisJim Bravura
- Chris O'DonnellJason Colvin
- Donal LogueAlex Balder
- Amaury NolascoJack Lupino
- Kate BurtonNicole Horne
- Olga KurylenkoNatasha
- Rothaford GrayJoe Salle
Recommendations
- 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A dumb film with a great conceptual hook from a director who visualizes better than he dramatizes. - 50
ReelViews
The film provides ample opportunity to attack the MPAA's hypocrisy. Max Payne is a bloodbath, yet it manages a PG-13 rating by keeping the explicitness of the killings just a whisker shy of what would be necessary for an R. - 42
The A.V. Club
In a post-Matrix, post-John Woo world, a handful of slow-motion shootouts shouldn't be all that's on offer. - 38
USA Today
Max Payne couldn't be more appropriately named. Sitting through this stylish-looking but derivative, vacuous and bullet-riddled movie inflicts maximum pain. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
A banal revenge melodrama-cum-detective story, but fans of the video game on which it is based should not be alarmed. - 30
Variety
Stylishly made, armed to the teeth and ludicrous in the extreme. - 25
Chicago Tribune
Max Payne offers max pain along with min invention, and the only thing that keeps it out of the bottom of the Dumpster--it’s more of a top-of-the-Dumpster movie--is the presence of Mark Wahlberg. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
It's just a grindingly inert death-wish thriller.
