3D Realms not pleased with Max Payne movie
The Max Payne movie has so far failed to impress critics, or the team involved with the original game.
The first Max Payne was released in 2001 and tells the story of an undercover cop whose family was murdered and who is made the victim of corruption in the police force and forced to go on the run.
The movie however has changed certain elements of the plot - and not for the better according to Scott Miller.
"There are several fundamental story flaws ... in the film that have me shaking my head in bewilderment," Miller told Edge.
"A big problem with the film is that we do not really know what is driving Max until we see the flashback scene showing him coming home and finding his family murdered. In the game, we put this scene right at the front of the story for a reason!
"Saving this scene until mid-film is a narrative blunder, because the audience needs to empathize with Max in order to like him and understand what drives him."
Miller added that he could go on and on about the issues he had with the film, which included the way that some characters are changed or marginalised in the adapted plot.
The film has also drawn some negative previews from critics, but that hasn't stopped it hitting the top of the American box office over the weekend and pulling in over $18 million. Have you had a chance to see it yet? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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It looked cool enough in the trailer, but it was doomed to be a bad port from the beginning...
the fact that im sure im not the only one to think this way is the reason it's still hitting the box-office.......
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Yes, I am definitely reading Bit-Tech.
Luckily for us we can rant at him again soon with the upcoming alone in the dark 2, far cry and bloodrayne 3
Well, the Cutscenes there are almost movies, that might be a good headstart over other game to movie adaptions as it will make it far easier to be close to the orignal.
Don't need a reason anymore to rant about him, he's as much of a director as jack thompson is a lawyer...
Too bad to see Bloodrayne in his hands though, as for far cry, well that can only end up boring, no matter what director.
3DRealms really should hae worked out a better contract that would have given them more control over how the movie is, but easy for me to say that now that its too late, now they know allready as well.
Thats just ridiculous...
Next time they could sell the right with a condition to write the screenplay!
I saw it with my Gf opening day. It was okay but could of been a lot better. They never really explain the significance of the Ragnarok club or really much of anything. The Mob is also not in the movie at all.
having played the games i at least knew where the story was coming from my GF thought it was just wierd or confusing.
it was a shame it had some really interesting and cool visuals, especially when he takes the drugs
We both thought the movie was soooooo vvveeeeerrrrryyyyyy sssslllllooooooooowwwww... And not because of the bullet-time (Which was used infrequently, but to great effect), either. The plot dragged it's heels more than a dead dog chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled from Reno to Nunavit, some of the casting was all wrong (Bravura? WTF?), and major characters and plot points were missing, or in the wrong place, or retconned and replaced entirely.
Yes, as others have said, no mob references at all, which kinda ruined things as Max was caught between the Mob, the Russians, and the police, and only the latter were (ostensibly) present.
And the "After the credits teaser" just twisted the knife even more. Way to drop the bomb that there's gonna be a sequel, that's even less like the games.
I'm very glad I didn't have to pay to see it, is all I'm sayin'.
not sure whether it'll be in the cinema though... might have to wait till it hits DVD
I think this is a film I'll end up watching on DVD. The trailer looked decent enough and I liked the music they played over it. Anyhoo, don't 3D Realms have something else to do other than complain. Like finish a game that's been in development, seemingly, forever?
I will probably see it at the cinema, and try my best to enjoy it. I'll probably like it in one of two ways. As a great movie adaptation, or as a movie in its own right.
I'm hoping its a good movie, regardless of how well it handles the original material.
I think there will only be 2 ways to get a game movie to not suck. One is to use machinima so the game itself makes sure the film sticks to the story. The other is to get the guys who did the design document involved as a major force in the film to try and keep it so the movie resembles its namesake.