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gundognc 2012-05-25 00:42:48

Max Bordom, Min Continuity

Lets get something straight, I liked the game Max Payne but despitewhat all the tiresome geeks are probably saying, it only had a goodstory by comparison with other computer games – most of which revolvearound an intricate plot of "kill everything that moves between point Aand point Z". Recover your memory and discover that you are actuallythe baddie.What passes for narrative depth in most computer game is the choice ofweaponry you get to exercise said slaughter. To be fair, games areabout fun not about deep and moving storytelling and that is as itshould be, after all I cannot see a successful game being made in whichthe controls are: Left Thumbstick – Control level of world-weariness.Right Thumbstick – Boubon / Cigarette.X button – Crack wise.Y button – Smack dame in the face.(from EA's forthcoming game based on Dashiel Hammett's The MalteseFalcon)Having said all that, what the game Max Payne did was to set a scenevery well. It was a clever, knowing, if extremely derivative take onthe noir genre, tipping its digital hat to everything from RamondChandler to Elmore Leonard.Sadly Max Payne the film does away with all the humour and lacks theentertaining derivativeness of the game's storyline as well as the noirovertones.-- Spoiler -- Max is an unhappy widower who's family was murdered by drug addicts.There's this drug, Valkyr, which makes 1 person in a 100 into anunstoppable killing machine and the other 99 get chronic terrifyinghallucinations before they go completely spanko and top themselves.Unsurprisingly, people are lining up around the block to take thiswonderful stuff! I can see the addicts saying "You know, I like heroin,but I'd really like something that drives me to suicide with horrificvisions". In a brilliant double bluff, this drug's street name is thesame as the name it had when it was being marketed by the AesirCorporation to the military as a combat enhancement drug. None of thegeniuses in the NYPD have worked this out, including Max who's spentthree years working on the case.Max meets a girl, Natasha Sax (Kurilenko) who attempts to seduce Maxfor no well explained reason shortly before being hacked into tinylittle pieces. Natasha's sister Mona is understandably upset and blamesMax for her killing. Max has other problems however as his formerpartner discovers a connection between Natasha and the people whokilled the Payne family and gets topped himself for his trouble.Max, now on the run from the NYPD finally realises that the Aesircorporation (for which his wife worked) may be involved and by anenormous fluke goes to see the one chap at the Aesir corporation who'sconveniently just found out all about the whole Valkyr deal. ChrisO'Donnell has a walk on part as the talkative Aesir executive. How themighty have fallen. There was a time when COD was starring inhigh-quality Hollywood output like Batman and Rubbish and VerticalSmile... Limit, sorry, Vertical Limit.After a tiresome bit of violence Max finally works out that the baddieis the only other recognisable actor in the film and kills him (and alot of Aesir staff along the way).-- End spoiler -- Other reviewers have said that Max Payne "Best game to film adaptation"and they are right. Given however that the list of game to filmadaptations includes some of the most profoundly bad films ever made(see Streetfighter, Wing Commander and absolutely anything made by UweBoll) I am not sure that this is the ringing endorsement that it couldbe.Max Payne isn't bad enough to be laughable or good enough to beenjoyable. Sadly after Wahlberg's last couple of outings as a leadingman (The Shattening & We Own the Shight) I get the impression that heis better as a supporting actor than as a lead. I can't reallyrecommend this movie at all. If you loved the computer game then you'llblow a gasket with the nerd rage. If you have never heard of the gamethen you'll wonder what the hell is going on and what the fuss isabout.

siminof 2012-05-24 04:08:28

5 Reasons of Dissapointement.

I guess that when a movie is taken from a comic book, a novel, or evena video game, it must respect the essence of it's source. In the "MaxPayne" game there was some important standards that were ignored duringthe movie production:1-The narration: Mark Whalberg's cold voice as a narrator at thebeginning of each chapter would be great (note that the first scene ofthe movie when Max said: "I don't believe in Heaven. I believe in Pain.I believe in Fear. I believe in Death." is what I'm talking about) 2-Bullet time action scenes: I think that this was the most influentialpart of the game, but it was abstracted to only one scene in the moviewhen Max shot the security while jumping backward.3-Mona Sax should be the "Dark Sexy Angel" of the movie: the choice ofMila Kunis for this role was not perfect because she's so sweet forthis role. I guess that Olga Kurylenko would be perfect as Mona Sax.4-Painkillers or Drugs: they make people see "ANGELS"!!! when Max tookthe drug, instead of letting him see monsters, they must let him sortof slow time which would be wonderful and much more closer to the game.5-The Guns: The big "Desert Eagle" gun is Mona's gun...not some littlemachine gun.In the end I was really disappointed from this movie...

KineticSeoul 2012-05-20 20:33:03

When bullet time is useless

Just play the video games of this title, because it's actually quiteobvious the director just wanted to cash in by just putting a videogame title on this. The video game has bullet time where everythingslows down, but in this it felt out of place and felt like there wasbullet time because the video game has bullet time. There was no needfor bullet time and the gunfights are not done well at all. This is aboring action movie plain and simple, the special effects has demonsand angels flying around which seems like it should of been in another"Constantine" movie. Maybe it would have been better if anotherdirector with more potential made it.3.2/10

zetes 2012-05-20 07:08:28

Not bad for a video game adaptation, but not good for a movie

About the best that can be said of this movie is that it's hardly theworst film that's ever been made out of a video game. Then again, itpretty much throws the game to the wind anyway. Max Payne was one ofthe first games of the Playstation 2 system, and, well, it would begiving it too much credit to say that it revolutionized storytellingwithin a video game. It at least tried to be cinematic in a way that nogame up to that point (2001) had tried to be. It was pretty much avideo game noir, complete with its own hardboiled dialogue. The filmwould have been wise to keep that aspect of the game. It might thenhave been fun. As it is now, it's a dismal, depressing revenge drama.Mark Wahlberg plays the titular ex-cop who is seeking clues to his wifeand child's murder. His investigations lead him to a corporation thathas developed a new drug, Valkyr, which gives humans almost god-likepower (in the game I remember it caused you to go into Matrix-stylebullet-time physics). I guess it's not half bad as a revenge drama, butI always find myself wishing that that didn't even exist as a genre.According to Homer Simpson, revenge fantasies are one of the mostcommon gifts Hollywood gives us. The look of the film is quiteexcellent, and it looks especially great on Blu Ray. Mila Kunis is sexyas a woman Wahlberg hooks up with, and who is also out for revenge.Recent Bond girl Olga Kurlyenko also appears (in at least her secondvideo game adaptation, following Hit-man) – most Bond girls quicklydisappear into the Playboys of history, but I really like this chick.Mostly sexually, but she's not a bad actress. I kind of hope she sticksaround for a while.

hrafnthor 2012-05-16 09:02:18

A disappointment

First of let me say that I played Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The fallof Max Payne. I just came from the cinema and man am I disappointed. First of MarkWahlberg is too nice to play Max. If I'm not mistaken he say's please afew times in the movie! Thats not Max. He fires about 6 shots during the whole first hour of the movie (notkidding). Thats not Max.He eats not a single painkiller during the whole movie. Thatsdefinitely not Max.There are about maybe 15 people that get shot during the whole movie.Thats not Max.There is no blood, no big action scenes except at the end where thefilm tries to recreate the large finale from the first game where Maxstorms the Aesir tower and slaughters everything that moves. But itfails miserably. Mona Sax is played badly by Mila Kunis. Andfortunately for the audience she only gets a few scenes.There are good bits though. The look of the scenes are good. That cold,dark and wet world that the game takes place in is really captured inthe film. Though places like Ragnarok and the harbor could have usedmore love. I give this film 3 stars for the good looks but the acting is bad, theaction is bad and the body count is non-existent.

olderthandirt747 2012-05-15 17:07:53

Maxum Underdrive

First of all all I knew of MAX PAYNE was seeing the video game on theshelf of the video rental store. Then saw the trailer for the film. Iwas hoping it would have been a little more believable story line. Thefilm starts out OK but when winged creature's start flying away withpeople (of course the characters in the film don,t see them) I knowthis is not what I hoped this film would bee like. I hoped it be alittle more realistic. Boy was I wrong Max gets shot at, blows upbuildings, jumps into freezing river and never looks worse for wear. Iwas under the impression that this was a shoot out friend turns out tobe bad guy film. Wrong!The ending left it open. I would close it.

jobur93 2012-05-14 11:53:42

Not great nor awful - but watchable

This movie isn't great, I mean, I played all Max Payne titles and I cansay I'm a big fan.In the beginning after watching the first trailer I was ready to see amovie that I knew that it wasn't going to be great. The cast it couldbe better, so the story, but it's OK. I didn't had a bad time, Ienjoyed watching it.Its a very very good movie to rent when you don't know what else to seeand you already viewed all the action movies like the Bourne trilogy.I don't think that its worthy to see in the cinema except you are a MaxPayne follower and you already know the story.There are some goofs from the game but not so much, and the sceneswhere you see Max fighting to save his family his house is preety muchchanged. For example in the game the baby has his own room, when in themovie the baby lived in the same room where Max's wife lived.There are some things that are wrong, i don't deny that but it notawful - its watchable.

space_base 2012-05-13 22:40:00

Easily the best video game to movie crossover to date.

I got to see MAX PAYNE a day in advance due to a sneak previewscreening at a local theater.And I've got to say... it was impressive to say the least. I considerMAX PAYNE and it's sequel to be my favorite games of all time, and nowthe movie is the best based on a video game yet produced (though that'snot giving it enough credit). Though the film does a few thingsdifferent, it definitely compliments and stays true to the sourcematerial. John Moore, a hack director, turns in his best work to date,delivering some crisp and tense action scenes and most importantly,gets the feel for the game JUST RIGHT. There is also some stunninglygorgeous effects a digitally-altered photography to behold. Mila Kuniswas slightly miscast, but Walhberg I feel was a perfect fit to PlayMax. It's also good to see Beau Bridges working again, and Chris"Ludacris" Bridges proves once again he's the best rapper-turned-actorsince Ice Cube (Boys N the Hood and Three Kings... not the familyfriendly Ice Cube of recent memory.But the reviews will be terrible. Every time a movie based on a game isreleased, critics bash it. OK, most of the time it's justified, buthere, I can assure you it won't be. Some reviews I've read are strayingfrom the film, and talking about how games shouldn't ever be moviesbecause they have NO emotional impact or artist and creative purpose.A: this is a completely idiotic, false, and ignorant statement, and B:this has nothing to do with the film being reviewed! SHOOT EM UP andWANTED got very strong reviews which they wouldn't have if they werebased on games (and they were essential video games!). MAX PAYNE isbetter than both of those, but will get pummeled critically do to theformat it's source material is on. That's just stupid.See this movie with an opened mind. It's a very well crafted modernneo-noir.7.5/10

superbeast408 2012-05-05 20:34:28

Mila Kunas, I mean come on wtf

Okay, with Mark wahlberg playing Max I must have went in with my hopestoo high. This movie just didn't deliver to the Max Payne fans. Overallit was a good effort for a movie, but they changed lots of plotdetails, had anti-climatic action sequences, and had a weird set ofactors. The special effects were great- A+ there, but thats kinda whereit stops. Every action sequence in the movie leaves you saying- thatsit? Each one seemed to be missing something. Then there is the brokenup plot- which they obviously left parts open for a sequel- but stillcould have flowed better, maybe another 20-30 minutes of movie wouldhave helped here. Then there's the cast mainly Mila Kunis, does not fitthe role, didn't play it well and thank god her role was smaller in themovie than in the games. I was seriously surprised, but glad at howlittle she does. Other than Mark and Beu, everyone else had averageperformances. Amaury played his part well, but the character deviatesmuch from the game. Then there was Nelly Furtado (which by the way Ijust realized it was her on the cast list) I think her character hadthe best lines in the movie as short as her role was- they summed upMax Payne. And one part that gets me is the complete and total lack oftwo, count em: two main characters from the game- Vladimer Lem andAlfred Woden. The movie makes it by without them, but only because ofthe plot changes. I was let down by this one.

rubenmeibergen 2012-05-05 14:17:03

Epic failure

I've played the games a couple of years ago. What do the players getserved while playing the game? 90% action, 10% storyline. The story isobviously the red line through the whole game, but the game is aboutthe shooting, about the bullet time action. The atmosphere that hasbeen lay'd down underneath the game is grim, its underworld, itsdepressive. The character is angry, he doesn't value his life anymore.He's out for revenge.If you make a movie from such a game, the first thing you do is takethose basic, simple ingredients and make that the core of the movie.Which is exactly what the director and especially the writer didn'tgrasp. I mean, if you want to make a movie about "Need for Speed",you're not going to see speeding cars for 5% of the movie right? Youwill have to see that basic ingredient at least 70-80%.I'll explain how I would do the movie. First of all, you cast acharacter that looks like Max Payne. Mark Walberg, does not look likeMax Payne. Clive Owen looks like Max Payne. But most likely he didn'teven want to play the character because he looked at the script for 5seconds and decided its terrible. If someone like Clive Owen doesn'twant to do it, you take someone that might not be that known, but atleast looks like Max Payne.That set aside, we've seen what, 1 or 2 bullet time action scenes?That's the same as creating a movie about a race game and doesn't showraces. Its amazing how they did not grasp this.The whole story and the other introduced characters in the movie arecompletely irrelevant. I'll sum up what you need to put in the movie ifyou want to please the fans. Its fairly simple.You start off with Max Payne in a subway station, blowing opponents topieces with subtle, but mind-blowing bullet time action scenes. After15 minutes of pure action, you show some of the dreams Max Payne had inthe game, so the watcher gets introduced why he's doing what he'sdoing. The rest is completely irrelevant. The bullet time actionsscenes has to be in there at least 12-15 times, since that was the keyelement that made Max Payne a successful shooter. Further on you getintroduced with the top level criminals, what they are doing, who theyare, why they are doing what they are doing. In the game there's also abig fire scene in a restaurant, which was clearly an important aspectin the story line of the game. Why wasn't this scene in the movie? DidMr. Moore even know the game? He must have not played it, that is soclear. The incompetence in Hollywood amazes me.I demand a remake of Max Payne by Robert Rodriguez.

ma-cortes 2012-05-04 05:18:33

Thriller full of action , violence and lots of computer generator effects

Everything ripped apart in a New York minutes...Detective MaxPayne(Mark Wahlberg) is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, coldurban night of New York. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murderand now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back againstthe wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain..But Max has nothing to lose. His wife and daughter have been murderedby narcotic addicts, a drug called Valkyr that induces hallucinationsof flying demons . However things get worse, he has been accused forthe killing of his best friend, a D.E.A. agent( Donald Logue). He'sonly helped by another agent (Mila Kunis) whose sister (Olga Kurylenko)has relationship to strange mobster (Amaury Norlasco) and his criminalactivities.Blaming the Russian mafia, he seeks out the most gangstermob boss in the city, taking on an army of mobsters that he could notpossibly hope to overcome, Max Payne confronts the epitome of crime,but aware that the mafia is only a pawn for a higher corruption, as hediscovers the power-hungry , hush-hush pharmaceutical Corporation andwhose security chief (Beau Bridges) is his mentor. In an attempt toclear his good name and settle his past, Max Payne serves as avigilante to eliminate the origen of a new designer drug beingtrafficked and which turning ex-soldiers into killing machines, that ofwhich he thinks was responsible for the murdering of his wife anddaughter.This is a rumbling action movie based on video games by Sam Lake , oneof the most important action games ever made for the P.C. Tough andtwo-fisted Mark Wahlberg as detective who sets out to uncover thetruths behind his family's killing , his role as revenger driven bydetermination to avenge , acting as judge, jury and executioner issimilarly to ¨Death Wish-Charles Bronson¨ and recently ¨thePunisher-Thomas Jane¨. Large secondary cast as Chris O'Donnell, BeauBridges,Kate Burton and the Bond-girl Olga Kurylenko. And a briefinterpretation as widow by the famous singer Nelly Furtado. Colorfuland dark cinematography with glistering camera-work by Jonathan Selacapturing the rain and snow that falls on N.Y. buildings and streets .Stirring musical score fitting to noisy action by Marco Beltrani. ThisNeo-noir vendetta picture is middling directed by John Moore . He is anexpert on remakes (The Omen, Flight of the Phoenix) and warlike action(Behind enemy lines). Rating : Acceptable and passable. The flick willappeal to Mark Wahlberg fans.

linkin_man_park 2012-05-03 15:38:26

Watch it as movie not as movie based on game

I know why most of the people are hate this movie cause they wantedpure gun fight scenes or full action like Clive Owen Shoot em up .but if u see it as movie point of you its probably the best video gameadaption movie .good story and very nicely directed the snow fall and other things aregood .some acting was poor but in the end Mark walhberg is a great actornicely did his acting .The whole Nordics angel stuff seemed kind of strange, but it works, andit proves visually stunning when displayed. I think people just weren'tready for a movie like this. Perhaps it's the whole 'based on a videogame' thing they can't get over. This is over all 'highly recommended'to watch in theatersgo watch it rather than reading negative reviews good movie it is .

2012-04-29 20:08:28

ehh-

This review is from: Max Payne (Unrated) (Amazon Instant Video) I did manage to stay awake for the entire movie, however I kept asking myself why. I wish I could have bought the DVD so that I could sell it and get ALL my money back.

sartrix 2012-04-29 11:45:13

Actually quite a faithful translation

I have heard and read a lot of bad reviews about this movie, and whenmy girlfriend wanted to watch it anyway, we feared for the worst. Gladto say: we feared in vain! Both of us have played the games, tho in mycase I never managed to get hooked on part 2. No matter, since themovie just covers part 1.A lot of reviews mention how things are missing from this movie, likebullet time slow-mo's, gore, and narration. But to be frank, we didn'tmiss anything really. In fact it HAS gore, slow-mo's (good ones even,without looking like a matrix rip-off) and narration. Just not throughthe entire movie, just like it doesn't have shooting through the entiremovie. People.. a movie is not filming how some one goes through thegame shooting people one by one. A movie actually tries to focus somemore on the actual story! It's quite well compressed from the manyhours of game-play to the few hours a motion picture can be.And that story was done fine. It was faithful to the game safe for someminor acceptable liberties, and solid enough as stand-alone for thosewho didn't play the game as well. The only confusing thing was the '1week earlier' flashback which starts the movie and lasts well over anhour of the movie's total time. The mention of the dead wife in theprologue's narration can put viewers on the wrong track thinking it's 1week before those deaths. However, once the scene comes which clearlyshows which part was actually the flashback, it suddenly falls intoplace.The end of this flashback is the turning point of the movie fromstorytelling to solid action. I have no peeves with the action, asideof the endless clips of ammo. Never reloading is a common thing inmovies, and by far not the worst to happen.The atmosphere and build up was absolutely great. Grim, gritty andcold. The junks and bodies everywhere from the skipped plowing of theearly stages in the game, makes place for visuals of how the drugValkyr is being experienced. A slight change of scope from 'yet anothergore movie' to actually elaborating more on the substance that's causeof everything. Had they kept the hellish scenes in junkie apartments,then they'ld have lost the contrast with the drug's effects, andtherefor it's a perfectly good choice.In closing, I'ld like to add that I've lost my confidence in the IMDbratings and reviews as they've proved wrong yet another time. It'sseriously better as many other action movies which get a 7+ rating likethe failed Transporter 2.

deltajvliet 2012-04-28 16:12:33

Max Payne: Revisionist Action Noir

The movie starts off somewhat slow, save a nice little scene in a dirtysubway bathroom that shows just how desperate detective Max Payne (MarkWahlberg) is to avenge the deaths of his wife and infant. As the filmprogresses and we learn more about Payne, the details surrounding hisfamily's death, and several other factors affecting the storyline,director John Moore treats us with some rewarding action sequences inthe last two thirds of the movie. The end was kind of predictable, butthat's not the point. If you're going to see the Max Payne movie,chances are you'll see exactly what you wanted to. Mark Wahlberg makes for an especially effective badass. He's cool, he'sunflinching, and he brings a degree of emotional depth to what wouldotherwise be a one-note character. But best of all, he wields a shotgunwith all the coolness of Bruce Willis kicking ass and taking names inDie Hard. He takes on a whole SWAT team; he goes into a criminalstronghold with nothing but a gun and a death wish; he does that thingwhere he just holds the slide grip of a shotgun and cocks it onehanded. I remember reading an article that said there's a shortage ofcool tough guys in Hollywood right now, that Jason Statham is basicallythe only guy filling the void left by Stallone, Scharzenegger, and toan extent Bruce Willis. Maybe Marky Mark can be that guy now; he nailsit here. Max Payne is neo-neo-noir. It's like a whole new approach to the genre,like if you took Sin City and Se7en and combined them with Hard Boiledto form some sort of super movie composed of people perpetuallyobscured by shadows with bleak lives and depressing backgrounds whomanage to constantly get into gunfights set against a dark, desolate,forlorn city where happiness is virtually unheard of. The visualsreinforce how innovative the movie feels. They're reminiscent of movieslike Sin City and 300, but they're not so much CGI or surreal, justrevisionist takes on noir. And these visuals make for a great backdrop to the action. Theycomplement some eye candy bullet time, add to the grittiness ofshootouts, and in general enhance all the violent goodness the actionjunkie in me loves to see on a visual level. That said, the shootoutswere decent in their own right. One within an office building wasespecially noteworthy. Watching glass shatter, things explode, and dustfly as the good guy who epitomizes cool runs for cover whilesimultaneously shooting his way out of the situation will never getold. And Payne's drug-induced berserker mindset towards the end of themovie makes for another great several minutes of flying bullets, too. And yet, I felt a little disappointed in that there wasn't more action.The movie has its fair share, but it was one of the best aspects of thefilm and more really wouldn't have been to its detriment. Moore's takeon action and noir is entertaining and innovative while Wahlberg stepsup to the plate, but the movie drags in the first half and just doesn'tcome off as that compelling. Still, I believe I just witnessed thefirst serious minded video game adaptation I can call good. Sadly, thecritics don't seem to agree, but then what do they know? 7/10

Ayan Sarkar 2012-04-28 07:40:36

Totally MAX PAIN!!

It's so hard to see a film like this. I've played the game and thoughtwhy not go and see this film. But It was the biggest disappointmentever. I mean, mark's acting is so lifeless with no emotions at all. Andthen the crazy dialogues, Payne going from places to places with nosolid reason. Mona comes out of nowhere. Then Alex dies. And then thatdrug thing. OH!!!! I wish I could beat the s*** out of the Director.How could they make a movie like this...huh? I guess they never playedthe game. It has pretty much nothing that goes with the game. I thinkthey did this just to make some money. I'm a big fan of Max Payne. Andnow I'M in MAX PAIN MODE. Ahh!

Gunars Pastars 2012-04-25 00:06:06

Disappointing

First i want to say that I'm a huge fan of the Max Payne game. I'msorry to all who liked this movie and the director... but I didn't likethe idea that Ludicrous played Jim Bravura, I don't say that he actsbad or poor, but i wanted something more similar to the game. Don'ttake me wrong, but Ludicrous associates with gangs/rap not a noir styledetective. And the choice to take My Name is Earl actor Beau Bridgeswas just plain wrong. Really, he is good at comic roles, but for such afilm... he just does not fit in.I was unable to get away the feeling that something was wrong with thismovie all the time watching it. But overall it was a nice movie,stylish and satisfying (kinda) my expectations.

Steve 2012-04-24 20:28:58

Max Payne-full to watch

I can only assume that the parts in the script that the actors read andsigned up for were better than what appeared on the screen. Eitherthat, or there was a epidemic of head wounds going around Hollywood.The plot is disjointed and at times incoherent. There were major plotpoints that brought laughter and derision from the Austin Film Festivalscreening audience.The sparse dialog is often trite, and as for character development,don't hold your breath.Give the movie a miss, and just play the game. I give the movie a 3,but the game I give a 9.

2012-04-24 09:51:27

Worth the 4$ - you might want to watch again though..

This review is from: Max Payne (Unrated) (Amazon Instant Video) I watched this movie on a plane, missed out on last 10 min and that made me watch the whole movie again on Amazon. It is that good. There are Arnold Schwarzenegger moments in there, enjoy them, take in the mostly ongoing action. This movie makes you want to be Max at the end. I'd like to be Max. Links in a way to Boondock Saints. Destroy all that is evil.

sylvesterthekat 2012-04-23 21:52:32

Maximum Pain

My advice: unless you're an adolescent boy who's enjoyed playing thegame, avoid this one like the plague. Dreadful doesn't even cover it. Idon't know what Beau Bridges and Mark Wahlberg were thinking... well Ido, I guess they were looking at the script through green-tintedglasses.Mere minutes into the film I could see what was coming a mile off. Oneonly needs to have played a few video games to be able to figure outthat the big corporations are always evil and that the guy you think isMr Nice is actually quite the opposite.The valkyries were quite creepy, it's one of the few things I can saythat's any good about the film but they're really not well used in thestory and are only imaginary beings anyway so what was the point? Saveyour money and skip this; I wouldn't even bother with the DVD!