max payne

pretty boring for the most part, but once he gets out of the water it gets pretty good. that is actually where the movie starts but then it goes back three years to fill in the back story. unfortunately the back story is pretty bland and boring, so the hour we spend getting up to where the movie began is rather lame. the back story is almost cookie cutter in its genericness: a police officer, max payne, finds his wife and daughter are killed and he turns into a bitter loner looking for the killer that got away. the whole thing involves a shady corporation that is doing evil things, and of course there has to be an experimental drug involved too, right? well, just as max payne is on the cusp of death and has to take the crazy hallucinogenic drug to survive, thats when it gets good! he starts to see valkrie demons and the sky burns red. he becomes a real bad ass and the story turns awesome. unfortunately, that only takes up the last 15 minutes of the movie. there was certainly a good movie in this story, but they just seemed to choose not to follow the good part and instead spend too much time following the wrong angle.