Oct 20 2008
Max Payne Review
I don’t think I’ve ever gone into a movie, watched it, and come out with this thought: “That movie could’ve used the soothing directorial touch of Uwe Boll.” Then again, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a film as potentially ludicrous as Max Payne refuse to embrace the brain-searing incomprehensibility of its stated premise. Call it wasted potential.
Read the rest of the bad news over at Den of Geek.
Frighteningly, his performance in The Departed made me think Marky Mark Wahlberg had finally turned the corner as an actor towards some level of consistency. I meant the good kind of consistency in that he could routinely turn out a good performance, not consistency as in never changing his facial expression for a whole 2 hour movie. I fail, hardcore.