You would think, that if they could perfectly translate Max Payne to the GBA and it still be fresh and awesome, then they could do it with a movie too. But they won't.

You would think, that if they could perfectly translate Max Payne to the GBA and it still be fresh and awesome, then they could do it with a movie too. But they won't.

Well, I for one am looking forward to the fantasy side of the movie. Although the game didnt really have any angels or demons... it did have a huge amount of reference to norse mythology, specifically to the Ragnarok. Many of the character names, place names, and themes centered around many norse ideas like Valhalla, the valkyries, and Yggdrasil. In addition, the character of Max Payne was pretty unhinged and unstable throughout. So it would be interesting if the movie explored this imaginary view that Max Payne has of his world and used Norse mythology to personify these delusions. And so far the trailer looks like it may be doing this. Everyone should check out the Max Payne entry on Wikipedia for more info about the game and its plot.

I think with the Demons and fantasy scenes are associated wit with the dream sequences in the original game. I think its pretty cool actually. Hope its good.

Yeah, I'm betting they took one dream sequence, and cut it up to look like a large part of the movie to draw in the "fantasy" crowd. It wouldn't be the first time marketing has cut a trailer to look nothing like the complete movie.

Remember Soldier with Kurt Douglas? The trailer had space battles and even the film poster had multiple space craft. What'd the actual film have? One space ship. Count 'em, one. Over and over again. Not that the missing space battle would have solved the film's many other issues, however, might have satisfied some of my inescapable hunger for some good ol' goofy Space Raiders / Battle Beyond the Stars cheese flakes on ice gas balls and sparklers in a dark room intergalactic visualization.

From the trailer this film seems to be loosely following the plot of the first game, so I would surmise all the valkyries are part of the hallucinations Max had when he was injected with a big dose of the valkyr drug.

I'm actually quite excited to see this film as they don't seem to have fucked with things too badly and the casting isn't too shabby.

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You mean Kurt Russell. How dare you blaspheme his name. We're talking Snake Plissken & Jack Burton here, and as far as I'm concerned Soldier kicks ass.

I think that I read that they're meant to possibly be drug-induced hallucinations.

Though I can't really confirm it at present.

You know, even though you didn't see any actual demons in the games, Max did talk in length about his personal demons.

I'm trying to defend Marky Mark as a great actor or anything. But I really thought he did a great job in Three Kings.

This movie I couldn't give two shits about.

@ the stuff about Soldier and Kurt Russell: Also, Soldier is meant to be set in the same universe as Blade Runner, so instant WIN for that.

But Max Payne... The mind-bogglingly bad casting aside (Dean Winters as Max and Olga Kurylenko as Mona would have been fucking perfect), this just looks like Constantine with guns. Presumably just as fucking bad.

I'm going to have an open mind though, it might surprise me, you never know.

I will asure everyone that the demons in the trailer are from him tweaking on V or valkyr. This movie has real chance to be a success like resident evil. So don't hate and give it a chance game to movie

i watched the UK trailor and there is a part where a man is pulled out a window and dropped by this demon thing. then max and mona say that they dont know what they just saw