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...Max (Mark Wahlberg) earned his wounds in the sort of battle familiar to action-movie fans: Coming home one night, he found his wife Michelle (Marianthi Evans) and their child murdered. Max caught up with two of the perps but caught only a fleeting glimpse of the fleeing chief villain. (The movie gets its suspense from tracking clues to the third man.) We know that this kind of film introduces wives and kids for the sole purpose of killing them off and turning a loving husband into a revenge machine. You got the same deal in this summer's Death...
...Max Payne, based on the search-and-destroy game created by Finland's "Sam Lake" (Sami Jarvi), is a tease in more ways than even the MPAA can imagine...
...stories, and storyboards, while the video games supply only a premise; or that reading an illustrated novel is closer to the movie-watching experience than the Zen numbness that overcomes gamesmen in their 27th hour at the console. That kind of sensory exhaustion is what the viewer feels before Max Payne has lumbered to its conclusion...
...makers of the Max movie - director John Moore, screenwriter Beau Thorne - want you to think of their effort as less video game than film noir. Or a Woo noir, since the picture owes a lot to the visual grit and zazz of John Woo, the Hong Kong director (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled) who made good in Hollywood with the crackerjack Face/Off. Surly men in overcoats trudge through a nightscape with very busy meteorology: when it isn't pouring rain there are snowflakes everywhere, like the residue from an Olympian pillow fight. And down these gaudily monochromatic streets...
...power expertise, not forgetting France's fashion expertise for thermal underwear, socks and gloves and a lightweight oversuit with shoe gloves. Keep innovating, guys. Your country needs you, and so does our planet. If you need further support, remember marathon runner Mavis Lindgren who, at 78, recorded a VO2 max equal to the average sedentary 20-year-old. Aerobic exercise rocks, and offers no-risk economies to the health service, and a longer active physical and mental working life. James Gooding, ENGLAND...