Max Payne Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

In a post-Matrix, post-John Woo world, a handful of slow-motion shootouts shouldn't be all that's on offer.Read the full review

Max’s righteous anger finds various allies and targets, though it is not always clear who is which. They are played by Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges and Ludacris with just enough panache and expressiveness to uphold the (increasingly irrelevant) distinction between a movie and a video game.Read the full review

Max Payne couldn't be more appropriately named. Sitting through this stylish-looking but derivative, vacuous and bullet-riddled movie inflicts maximum pain.Read the full review

This highly stylized adaptation of the popular Max Payne video game is 70 percent dark, snowy atmospherics and 30 percent loud, violent action.Read the full review

Stylishly made, armed to the teeth and ludicrous in the extreme.Read the full review

A banal revenge melodrama-cum-detective story, but fans of the video game on which it is based should not be alarmed.Read the full review

With its flat story, numbed-out protagonist, and faux artistic lighting and set design - everything is dark or moody or darkishly moody or moodily dark - Max Payne seems a good half hour longer than its running time.Read the full review

If you stay and watch the endless end credits, there's a short scene that hints a sequel is coming. That's what I call real pain.Read the full review