Max Payne

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Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA, Canada
Runtime: 100
Rating: (0)
Languages: Spanish, English
Director: John Moore
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, Dolby, DTS
Taglines:

Terror lives below

Writing by: Beau Thorne - (screenplay)
Sam Lake - (video game by Remedy Entertainment and 3-D Realms Entertainment)

Produced by: Scott Faye - producer
Tom Karnowski - executive producer
Karen Lauder - executive producer
John Moore - producer
Peter Veverka - associate producer
Julie Yorn - producer

Cast: Mark Wahlberg - Max Payne
Mila Kunis - Mona Sax
Beau Bridges - BB Hensley
Ludacris - Jim Bravura (as Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges)
Chris O'Donnell - Jason Colvin
Donal Logue - Alex Balder
Amaury Nolasco - Jack Lupino
Kate Burton - Nicole Horne
Olga Kurylenko - Natasha Sax
Rothaford Gray - Joe Salle
Joel Gordon - Owen Green

Music: Marco Beltrami Buck Sanders
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Plot Outline: Christy (Zehetner) returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares have either come true ... or are about to.
Plot: Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.

Movie Quotes: [from trailer]
Max Payne: There's an army of bodies under this river, people who ran out of time, out of friends. I could feel the dead down there, reaching up to welcome me as one of their own. It was an easy mistake to make.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
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).

Goofs: We know about 11 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When the Marine is being interviewed about the effects of the drug use, it's extremely obvious that his rank on his collar is upside down. Also, he seems to have been promoted.

Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list - like these:

Director John Moore has said that he tried to please fan requests as much and frequently as possible.
Mark Wahlberg reportedly never played the video game as he didn't want to become addicted, and felt the script connected him to the story enough.
When initially submitted to the MPAA the film was given an R rating. Director John Moore then reportedly trimmed a few frames and the picture was promptly given the more financially viable PG-13 rating.