icemann on 23/10/2008 at 07:24
I thought Doom and Resident Evil were quite good movies as far as video game to movie adaptations go. Resident Evil being the better of the two. The sequels to it sucked ass though.
Silent Hill is so far the best video game movie I`ve seen so far in my opinion. Worthy of a game in its own right.
Saw Max Payne last week. I thought it was alright. But it doesn`t hold a candle to the games.
henke on 9/12/2008 at 18:29
Ok, I just watched it. With adequately lowered expectations Max Payne is not a bad movie.
The story: it's based on Max Payne 1 but altered enough to keep fans from guessing how it'll end right away. And - as a completely unnecessary after-credits-bonus-scene confirms - there's room for a sequel.
The performances: Mark Wahlberg and Beau Bridges are alright. Mila Kunnis isn't terrible, not that she gets enough screentime to be truly terrible either. Olgy Kurylenko I guess is supposed to be sexy but she just comes across as desperate, thankfully her character is offed pretty quickly. I had no idea Chris O'Donnell was even in this until the credits rolled so I guess he did a pretty good job. Or maybe it's just that he's gotten kinda chubby.
The action: Decent, but nowhere near the level of the John Woo-movies that inspired the game in the first place.
The demons n shit: A stylish way of representing the mental state of anyone who is subjected to the Valkyrie drug. They are overdone in a few scenes though.
Dialogue: Mark Wahlberg's monologue and some of the other lines spoken in the trailer were pretty good. That's it though. If you've seen the trailer you've already heard the best lines. In fact, when you hear those same lines in the movie they sound kind of flat and lifeless.
Visuals/cinematography: It is a pretty good looking movie. At times it feels really atmospheric and... I don't know. Cozy. In a wierd way.
Bottom line: Max Payne feels solid. The filmmakers stayed within the boundaries of what they could do and churned out a nice little action-movie/lite-conspiracy-thriller. They also resisted the urge to bloat the movie with appearances from every character in the game just in order to please the fanboys. There's no Vlad here and no Vinnie Gognitti and that is a good thing as they are not a vital part of this story. Still, it's a few well-written monologues and perfectly choreographed shootouts short of being everything you could hope for in a Max Payne movie.
6/10
David on 9/12/2008 at 19:18
It was utter shit and I almost left before the end.
I suspect I would have had more fun watching Transporter 3.
It was that bad.
henke on 10/12/2008 at 10:54
Are you saying that Transporter 3 isn't fun?
I haven't seen Transporter 3 but if it's anything even remotely like Transporter 1 & 2 it most certainly is fun.
Scots Taffer on 11/12/2008 at 00:04
I've never seen them, but I'm around 1000% certain that the Transporter movies are responsible for the current financial crisis they're so fucking bad.
gunsmoke on 11/12/2008 at 00:23
I watched 15 minutes of Trans. 2. My wife and I looked at each other and both agreed to shut it the fuck off. We paid 4$ for it On Demand, and had no concern for watching the rest of it to get our money's worth.
Fafhrd on 11/12/2008 at 02:24
Quote Posted by henke
I haven't seen Transporter 3 but if it's anything even remotely like Transporter 1 & 2 it most certainly
is fun.
You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.
henke on 11/12/2008 at 08:04
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
I watched 15 minutes of Trans. 2. My wife and I looked at each other and both agreed to shut it the fuck off. We paid 4$ for it On Demand, and had no concern for watching the rest of it to get our money's worth.
Oh. My. God.
Ok, this is what you missed out on:
The badguys have put a bomb under Statham's car so Statham drives out to the harbor really fast and drives into a conviently placed ramp and flies straight at a crane. Statham manages to hit the ramp just right so his car rotates mid-air so when he's right under the crane the car is upside down and the hook of the crane knocks the bomb of from underneath his car and then the bomb explodes just like a millisecond after it's been knocked away from the car. Then the car lands on the other side of the harbor and keeps on driving. The car was jumping over a ship while this happened btw. Then later on Jason Statham is being held at gunpoint by two badguys who tell him to drop his gun. He holds his arm out to the side and drops the gun. While the badguys are distracted by Statham's gun dropping to the floor in beutiful slo-mo, Statham roundhouse kicks the first badguy in the hand so his gun flies out of his hand and into the head of the second badguy, knocking the second guy out! Then Statham kung-fu punches the first guy down. Then, towards the end of the movie, Statham is chasing a badguy who has hijacked a schoolbus and Statham is chasing him on a Jetski. So Statham jumps with the jetski out of the water and on to the street and starts skidding after the bus, slowly but surely catching up with it, sparks flying everywhere. When he's close enough he jumps in through the door at the back of the bus and kung-fu kicks down the badguy.
Oh, and one of the villains is a Russian chick who runs around in her underwear throughout the movie and shoots people with her twin-Uzis.
In short, Transporter 2 has
everything!It's pretty much the perfect movie.
Thirith on 11/12/2008 at 08:09
Does it come with a free testosterone shot? It sounds like the kind of movie that requires you to have testosterone coming out of your ears, nostrils and quite possibly dick so you can enjoy it fully.
Scots Taffer on 11/12/2008 at 08:32
Even a guy I know who watches action films exclusively, no drama, comedy or thriller unless it has a body count and explosions per hour ratio greater than ten, says the Transporter movies are among the worst he's ever seen. And I mean this guy watches ONLY action movies, including those bargain bin $3 efforts from all over the world.
