First Max Payne Trailer Released 82
Kotaku has pointed out the first official Max Payne trailer for the movie based on Remedy Entertainment's third-person shooter. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, and should be hitting the streets this coming October.
Wow (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually looks like they have captured the nature of Max Payne (or at least that's how it seems from this brief trailer). The Hitman film was good, but not great, and the two Lara Croft offerings were pretty poor, but this looks promising.
Re:didn't play it (Score:5, Interesting)
I suspect that it's probably drug-related hallucinations from Valkyr. One of my friends suggested that it was a visual metaphor for internal demons (possibly related to Valkyr as well - in the game Max gets dosed a couple times unintentionally).
Anyway, as plusses:
Minuses on the other hand:
It bears noting that the positives outnumber the negatives.
Re:Wow (Score:3, Interesting)
Looking surprisingly good (Score:2, Interesting)
That's not bullet time (Score:4, Interesting)
Remember the game? In bullet time, you were slowed a little, and the enemies and bullets were slowed far more... you could dodge the bullets.
In this trailer, all we have is standard slow-mo, with all actors slowed the same amount, and firing blanks (not dodgable bullets like in Max Payne). The hero dodges not a single bullet in the trailer. The game is about entering bullet time and dodging bullets in just about every other firefight.
You're in an action movie, Max. (Score:1, Interesting)
The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Actors floated by on strings shooting blanks, while CGI animation filled in the gaps.
I was in an action movie. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.