Based on the Rockstar videogame franchise, Max Payne follows the eponymous maverick cop (Mark Wahlberg), who is a NYPD detective here rather than an undercover DEA agent. A brooding widower whose ...

“Max Payne” is a conventional cop-vengeance thriller with a supernatural twist. It’s “Sin City Lite,” with winged Valkyries who snatch tormented souls from one underworld to another. One thing you can ...

Will Max Payne turn out to be the videogame hero that finally breaks the bad movie curse? Opening Friday, the Mark Wahlberg action picture is being touted as the weekend’s likely box office champ, but ...

There’s film noir, and then there’s “Max Payne,” which is so dark it looks as if the negative were dropped in a puddle of ink. In the Stygian gloom of John Moore’s video-game derivative, there’s no ...

Many gamers have been looking forward to the Max Payne movie—due out on Friday. Unfortunately, early reviews of Mark Wahlberg's latest action movie don't sound very promising. The first few reviews to ...

Stylishly made, armed to the teeth and ludicrous in the extreme, "Max Payne" sends its eponymous antihero into New York's underbelly on a deranged quest for revenge. As reconceived for the screen by ...