MAX PAIN!

It has always been adhoc plans for me with Diidz to watch movies. & its not much of a difficulty in making the choice which one to watch..well..most of the times! It was no different this time either. Though few choices still available, and in consideration, like 'Transporter 3' (pretty good!), 'Burn After Reading' (probable!), 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye' (I heard its fun!) ..I instead opted for 'Max Payne'! The very comic book like movie is based on a video game about an obsessed outcast cop who’s wife and child were murdered and who is subsequently on a pursuit to track down the killer.

Now if you, alike me, follow the plotlines of this wavering approximation of the game, you are a better customer for this movie. The beginning was precise. But gradually the dim lighted plot turned out to be a dull & conventional twist that ended abruptly. The first timers watching it would find it really bizarre. Even I found it nothing but an empty-headed action with heavily stylized visuals. Feeble characterization, visions of fiery skies, encircling winged-demons, too much dialogs that too 'lame' - turned this ‘could be’ ultimate kick ass action into a dud substantially.

I always liked the game, and kinda like Mark Wahlberg too, who plays the lead 'Max Payne'. But no wonder he is already jinxed playing a leading man. Olga Kurylenko was wasted big time, but Mila Kunis was decent. Nelly Furtado too had an eye blinked shot as wife of Max Payne’s dead partner. As a whole, it was an utter disastrous handling of characters too!

Apart from a few cinematographic shots that were wonderfully done like the snow and rain that falls on gritty NY streets, flaming hallucinations, some cool slow motion shoot-out scenes, buildings blowing up in climax. The only other solid point of this movie was that I found it among the best films adapted from a videogame so far!

Even then..the bitter truth is..Max Payne was a PAIN!