First we played the game and now they are gonna give us the movie. As said before, this movie is based on the video game with the same name released on 2001. Max Payne, a cop in the NYPD, returns home one day to find his wife and baby daughter murdered at the hands of drug addicts, high on a designer drug called Valkyr. After 3 years of working on the case, Max and his best friend Alex go undercover to bust a V-deal. However, things go wrong: Alex is suddenly killed, and Max is framed for his murder. Hunted by the cops and driven by determination to avenge his family, Max Payne sets out to uncover the truths behind his family’s murder.
The Overview on the game:
This game is very interesting, not only for it’s plot but because of the style of the game. Max Payne have a major cinematic influence which is The Hong Kong action movie genre and a big influence is John Woo’s style, a Chinese film director. The game’s stylish cinematography and choreography is combined with heavy film noir, pulp noir, and pulp fiction influences in characters and dialogue. Rather than employing rendered or digitized cinematic movies for cutscenes, the story is told instead with “graphic novels” and narrated in the heavy-handed style of radio detective dramas such as Pat Novak for Hire. The games are dark and noir-style, following Max Payne, a troubled cop with internal and external conflicts in a dark, sinister New York City.
Hope the movie is as good as the game. Here’s the trailer, enjoy Max Payne fans!
