Max Payne

I enjoyed playing this video game. I think I played through all of them released so far, two or three of them. Interesting story of a cop, his family is killed, and then he spends the rest of his life trying to figure out why and to get revenge. Of course, when I was playing the game, he died about a million times in a million different ways, poor guy.

In the movie, Max Payne is played by Marky Mark Wallberg, and he makes it through the entire movie without dying. Jeez, how do you make a movie about a video game? Especially this one? They did, and it turned out ok. It was not the best movie in the world, but it was entertaining. If you had not played the games, you would still enjoy the movie.

What does this movie tell us? That people in Hollywood play video games, slap there foreheads and think, damn, I can make a movie out of this. Also that there are relationships between game makers, developers, distributors, and movie makers, developers, and distributors, etc. The relationship seems to go both ways too, they make a movie, then make a game out of the movie. They make a game, then make a movie out of the game. Rarely are there good games that come out of movies, but a decent movie seems to be made about a game. I think the movie makers should rely more on the game makers to create some of the art in the movies.