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First Max Payne Trailer Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shiny-bits dept.

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.

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  1. Re:didn't play it by AceCaseOR · · 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:

    • Mark's got Max's tone of voice down pat.
    • Mona Sax looks good, though it looks like they exchanged her red outfit from the first game for the black outfit from the second (which I have a minor quibble with, because it made for a nice visual metaphor, but I digress).
    • The snowstorm looks alright, though I wonder if it will have the same sort of "character" as it had in the game.
    • We only get a glimpse of Jack Lupino briefly, but he looks good.
    • Gunfight in the Valkyr building.

    Minuses on the other hand:

    • No Two-Fisted Gunplay from Max.
    • No sign of Max's slightly-over-the-top metaphors in his dialog.

    It bears noting that the positives outnumber the negatives.

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