1. I was a huge fan of Max Payne 1 and 2 on the PC. Both games just had the right amount of violence, gunplay, vengeance, humor, and gloomy atmosphere.

I don't think it will be a problem for fans of the game that this is PG-13 (see: The Dark Knight). There was not an excessive amount of blood or guts in the game as I recall, more about the diving over stuff and shooting in slo-mo.

Definitely checking this one out

Posted at 9:16AM on Aug 29th 2008 by Will B

2. Oh, and the angels flying around? I imagine they are Max's delusions... he is obviously pretty upset about the loss of his loved ones,(as shown in the trailer) and he sees the world as a much darker place than it is.

In the game, he went into some pretty deep delusions, though I don't remember any "Valkyries" specifically.

Posted at 9:27AM on Aug 29th 2008 by Will B

3. All i can ask is: Don't suck like The punisher, Constantine... and Hitman. One or two good scenes in each of those.
And better make a nice character out of Kunis. Not that bimbo in hitman, who was there to put breasts to the whole affair.

Posted at 10:49AM on Aug 29th 2008 by cough

4. Has anyone at Cine played the games? It feels like every post on the movie is prefaced with "Having never played the games..."

Anyway - the "angels" would be the Valkyries. In the games, Max is a DEA agent, and the drug of choice is Valkyr, which causes hallucinations of Valkyries. It has a strong Norse theme running through it.

Not that the Valkyries are actually seen in the game that I recall...

Posted at 11:32AM on Aug 29th 2008 by Astin

5. When Erik Davis covered the first trailer, he fessed up to having played some of them (http://www.cinematical.com/2008/07/10/max-payne-gets-a-dark-trailer/), but in all fairness, we're not a gaming blog and don't exactly mandate that all movie-inspiring games be played as such.

Which isn't to say that I shouldn't dust off my PS2...

Posted at 11:57AM on Aug 29th 2008 by William Goss

6. Can't wait for this. The angels & demons are most certainly hallucinations from Valkyr.

Posted at 1:09PM on Aug 29th 2008 by MatthewRex

7. I really hope they are hallucinations and that they didn't decide to throw random supernatural elements into the plot just because.

But if so, then the trailer is lying to people by making them think it is supernatural, and not just a crime movie.

Posted at 3:45PM on Aug 29th 2008 by Liz

8. This will fail as many actions have in recent years and it has everything to do with the below R rating and material suitable for young teens. Its sad but true and no action has compared to those of the past basically all carrying an R rating and I think it has alot to do with the average males fight fantasy after a certain age easily being worthy of NC-17 to xxx ratings....

Hollywood sucks they just want a wider audience for more money and this movie will be nothing more than good special effects that get old fast into the plot. A plot which no one goes to see a film like this for anyhow.

Posted at 5:49PM on Sep 9th 2008 by Joeyjojo

9. Having played both games im accually rather dissapointed in what is seen in the trailer, (not to say im not going to still see it) not too keen on the whole angels/demons theme going on here and having ludacris (however he spells it) as Deputy Bravura is not my idea of good casting considering Bravuras a fat white bald guy in the games. (yes i know im picky)

Posted at 3:22AM on Sep 18th 2008 by Lance