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Max Payne movie Plot Outline: After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime:
Rating: 8.3 (0)
Languages: Spanish, English
Director: John Moore
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Taglines:Your great adventure on Alaska.
Writing by: Sam Lake - characters
Shawn Ryan - writer
Beau Thorne - screenplay
Produced by: Scott Faye - producer
Tom Karnowski - executive producer
Karen Lauder - executive producer
Peter Veverka - associate producer
Julie Yorn - producer
Cast: Mark Wahlberg - Max Payne
Mila Kunis - Mona Sax
Beau Bridges - BB Hensley
Ludacris - Jim Bravura
Donal Logue - Alex Balder
Chris ODonnell - Jason Colvin
Joel Gordon - Owen Green
Kate Burton - Nicole Horne
Rico Simonini - Detective Amerini
Ted Atherton - Detective Shipman
Bill Boyd - Bravuras driver
Music: Marco Beltrami
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Plot: Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin (Kunis) out to avenge her sisters death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
Crazy Credits:
Stay watching after the credits for an extra scene, in which Max is reunited with Mona at a bar to be shown further developments involving Aesir, implying both have more to do (setting the scene for a possible sequel).
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Goofs:
- Continuity: After the garage shooting scene, Max shoots 5-6 cops inside the Aesir building. He grabs a shotgun and reloads it. Two scenes later, he reloads it again.
- Factual errors: Jim Bravura has a detective's badge, and is frequently called a detective. Yet the door to his office and the name plate on his desk identify him as a lieutenant. In the NYPD, he would be called a lieutenant, even if he was assigned to a detective squad.
- Continuity: Toward the end of the movie, Max crashes through the door of BB's office. The door is wide open in the next shot, but almost closed in the following shot.
- Factual errors: When the Marine is being interviewed about the the drug's effects, the rank on his collar is upside down, and he seems to have been promoted. The rank insignia are not USMC insignia. USMC insignia would have crossed rifles between the chevrons (pointed end at the top) and the rockers (the curved end at the bottom). The rank shown is the army Sergeant First Class (E7), and in the army he might be called a sergeant. In the Marine Corps the rank of E7 is a Gunnery Sergeant, and would be called Gunnery Sergeant or more informally Gunny.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Max is about to leave his apartment in the morning, he shuts off the stove after a kettle starts whistling. The steaming item on the stove is an espresso pot, which does not whistle. A kettle is on the back burner, but it's not being used.
- Revealing mistakes: When Natasha Sax (Olga Kurylenko) is in Max's bed she has a sheet covering all the way down to her undergarments. On the next shot the sheet is lifted revealing her abdomen.
Trivia:
- The club where Lupino stores the Valkyr drug is called Rag Na Rock. In Scandinavian mythology, which is referenced a few times throughout the film, the word Ragnarök indicates the end of the world.
- The game designers at 3D-Realms were apparently unimpressed by the motion picture adaptation.
- The main villain of the video game Nicole Horne plays only a minor role in the feature film.
- This marks the third collaboration between director John Moore and composer Marco Beltrami.
- Due to the PG-13 rating that the studio wanted, John Moore filmed two versions of the two biggest action sequences in the film, a) The Aesir Swat Building Shootout and b) Max Payne's attack on the Aesir building starting from the parking garage scene. John Moore filmed a version with impact squibs (seen in the PG-13 cut) and one with bloody wound squibs. Moore also stated that the parking garage scene during the filming of using the blood wound squibs was "one of the bloodiest shootouts he has ever filmed".
- Despite the games being based around slo-motion, or "bullet time" shootouts, there are only two slo-motion sequences in the whole movie.
- The NYPD precinct where Max works is the "55th", also the name given to the fictional NYPD precinct and fire station used in TV series "Third Watch" (1999).
- The Valkyr graffiti tag from the original Max Payne video game, is visible just before Max takes a whipping in the alley by Mona Sax.
- The gun used by Max in the subway bathroom scene is the Taurus .410 Judge. It can shoot either .45's or .410 shotgun shells.
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