Max Payne
When a man has lost everything, he only has revenge.
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Budget
$35 000 000
Revenue
$85 416 905
Director
Scenario
Beau Thorne
Composer
Producer
Actors
Mark Wahlberg
Max Payne
Mila Kunis
Mona Sax
Beau Bridges
BB Hensley
Ludacris
Jim Bravura
Chris O'Donnell
Jason Colvin
Donal Logue
Alex Balder
Amaury Nolasco
Jack Lupino
Kate Burton
Nicole Horne
Short description
Max Payne is a New York City detective haunted by the murder of his wife and child. Working a cold-case archive, he keeps pursuing the people responsible, and his search draws him into the city's criminal underworld, where a synthetic drug connects the deaths he is investigating. An assassin, Mona Sax, is also hunting those behind a killing of her own, and the two of them end up working toward the same targets. The trail leads to powerful figures and a conspiracy larger than either of them expected.
The film is an adaptation of the video game series and was directed by John Moore, whose earlier features were Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix and The Omen. Mark Wahlberg plays Max Payne, with Mila Kunis as Mona Sax, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O'Donnell and Donal Logue among the cast. Beau Thorne wrote the screenplay.
Made for a budget of 35 million US dollars, the film took in about 85 million worldwide, a solid return relative to its cost. Audience scores sit in the middle: 5.3 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 134,000 votes, and 5.4 out of 10 on TMDB from about 2,330 votes. A film critics' rating of 3.8 out of 10 from 135 reviews is lower than both audience scores. It runs 100 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Screenwriter Sam Lake served as the prototype for Max Payne's appearance in the original game.
- At the beginning of the film, two sisters, Mona and Natasha, played by Mila Kunis and Olga Kurylenko respectively, talk to each other in Russian. American film actress Mila Kunis (born Milena Markovna Kunis), who has lived in the USA since 1991, speaks Russian, as she was born in Chernivtsi in 1983.
- Actor James McCaffrey, who provided the voice for Max Payne in the game, played a small role in the film as an FBI agent who arrives during Bravura's conversation with the commander of the police special forces.
- The hero wears a Patek Philippe watch.
- In the game, Max Payne's wife was blonde, but in the film, she is a brunette.
- The role of Jason Colvin was originally offered to Tobey Maguire.
- The weapon used by Max in the subway restroom scene is a Taurus 4510 Judge.
- Actress Deborah Romb, who impressed the filmmakers with her Russian accent during casting, was considered for the role of Mona, but the role went to Mila Kunis.
- In the game, the 'Valkyrie' drug is administered by injection, while in the film it is drunk.
- B.B. Hensley looks much younger in the game, is a DEA agent, and is completely unfamiliar with Max Payne's father.
- Mona receives a gunshot wound in the game immediately after entering the elevator inside the "Aesir" building. In the film, she remains unharmed.
- A double dose of "Valkyr" is considered fatal by its creators at "Aesir". In the game, Nicole Horne attempts to kill Max by injecting him with two doses of the drug, while in the film he drinks two portions of "Valkyr" himself to save himself from hypothermia. However, in both cases, Payne survives.
- In the subway scene, Max fires six shots, despite the fact that the Taurus Judge revolver he is armed with is a five-round firearm.
- Before raiding his partner Alex Balder’s house, Max chambers a round in his standard-issue Beretta 92FS pistol. Real police officers always keep their weapons ready for action.
- The power of the Taurus Judge revolver, which Max uses in the subway restroom, is greatly exaggerated. The Taurus Judge is not capable of blowing a lock open with a single shot.
- The film depicts Valkyries as two-winged, humanoid creatures. However, in Scandinavian mythology, Valkyries fly on winged horses over the battlefield and do not have wings themselves.
- The film shows forensic investigators from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) wearing jackets with the inscription “CSI” (Crime Scene Investigation) on the back. In reality, the forensic investigator division within the NYPD is called the “Crime Scene Unit”, and their jackets should therefore bear the inscription “CSU”.
- The film is based on the video game “Max Payne” (2001).
- The comic book inserts in the original game were inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel 'Sin City'.
- In the early stages of the project, Clive Owen was considered for the role of Max, having played a similar character in the film 'Shoot 'Em Up' (2007).
- Mark Wahlberg rarely plays or understands computer games. Therefore, when he was approached with an offer to star in the film adaptation of the game, he replied that his career hadn't fallen apart enough to appear in obvious nonsense. However, he was then persuaded to read the script, and he was so inspired by the idea that he even started playing 'Max Payne'. However, as he admitted himself, he didn't last long – more important things came up. Therefore, he used his young assistant, who completed the game, as a consultant.
- The club where Jack Lupino stores the 'Valkyr' drug is called 'Rag Na Rock'. In Norse mythology, to which the film refers several times, the word 'Ragnarök' means 'the end of the world'.
- On the forearm of the film character, the drug addict Owen Green, who fell out of the window, you can see a 'USMC' tattoo, which stands for United States Marine Corps. In full accordance with the plot of the film, this means that Green also participated in the 'Valkyr' experiment.
- Scott Miller, head of 3D Realms and one of the main creators of "Max Payne," expressed dissatisfaction with the distortion of the storyline in the film adaptation. He believes that moving the plot point where Max clashes with intruders at his home and then finds his wife and child to the middle of the blockbuster is a profound mistake, as it significantly impacts the viewer's understanding of the reasons that led a good police officer to seek revenge. Miller was also disappointed with the fight scene between Max and Jack Lupino and the, in his opinion, lackluster resolution.
- At the 66th minute of the film, when Mona finds Max in her hideout, the boxes she passes by are labeled "Uetyre palta." This was likely intended to say "Chetyre paltsa" (Four Fingers).
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