I was tied to a chair and he had a baseball bat. Pissing him off was the right thing to do

welcome to the new blog. i hope it's better than the god awful myspace blog interface.

so we decided to go see Max Payne last night. rotten tomatoes gave it a 21% which is really low. virtually every rating rotten tomatoes gives is pretty accurate. this disappointed me because i was really looking forward to max payne. i read a bunch of the reviews and the general consensus was that the movie didn't make any sense and was poorly done. after reading the reviews, i chalked up most of the negative ones to people that have no clue that max payne is based off of a video game or have never played it.

i am here to tell you they are wrong and possibly retarded. heather hasn't played the games, but seeing as she's not retarded, she followed along just fine in the movie. this movie was about as hard to follow as the yellow brick road. if you weren't paying attention you ended up wandering off into a corn field and making a new soul-less friend, but for the most part, the path was laid out directly in front of you.

the movie was a little slow. that one i agree on. for max payne, the first half of the movie had very little shooting. over all i think the movie was well done. the sets were very well done compared to the game. marky mark did a pretty good job as max payne. they could have casted mona a little better though.

overall i would say it's a definite go see. there were a few things missing that i would have liked to have seen:
1. drug induced endless hallway / blood trail scene
2. non stop popping of pain killers (though that would require more violence throughout the movie to make sense)
3. most importantly, there was no voice over of his inner monologue. that's one of the most important parts of the game, so it should have been in the movie.

the movie goers will miss out on clever voice over thoughts like:
- "Sooner or later it was going to catch up with you. You'd find that lady luck was a hooker and you were fresh out of cash"
- "It was all over. The final shots were an exclamation mark to all of it. I pulled my finger off the trigger."
- "Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far beyond the point of no return I couldn't remember what it had looked like when I had passed it."

i'm also putting money down on there being a sequel considering the main boss was not killed. but i guess that's why they had two games too.