Max Payne Movie Reviews
November 1, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Movies Reviews · Comments Off
In The world of stupid action movies, there are plenty more stupider than Max Payne but the fact that it has pretensions to quality is depressing. It means someone must have decided to stop it getting too smart, once it reached a level of not too dumb. This happens all the time in Lalawood, where smart people get paid to stop movies becoming too highbrow. It is not the same as failing, even if it is a kind of failure. It is institutionalised lack-of-quality control, born out of the bastard birth of the movies as cheap, dumb and illicit fun more than 100 years ago. Read more
