What is Max Payne? It's a weird movie of the same name (Chinese translation of "Magic Star"). This movie retains the scene of the game in which snowflakes are flying all the time, retains the cool and dark image style, and retains the constantly flashing old scenes. It even retains the dull sound effect of "someone talking next door", which makes you feel like you are back to the game world at a certain moment, but unfortunately, these are just simple appearances. The similarity between this movie and the "original" ends here. The loneliness of betrayal in the original, the graceful violent scenes, the kind of arrogance of a lasting battle, in short, all the characters, scenes, and emotions are all in the theater version. It's gone. What I see now is just an ordinary action movie. The only feature is the addition of a few supernatural illusions of monsters and ghosts. Does the director think that the game adaptation should be a little bit godly?
Who is Max Payne? He's a lonely tough guy who doesn't love his uncle or grandmother, who is committed to the evil lone star, and who is deeply trapped in the gangster quagmire. In such a game full of film noir juice, he naturally becomes a model of the image of all the tough men in film noir from the past and the present. He is in a windbreaker with two guns, and he has unspeakable pain in his heart. He can only rely on himself. His hands have blazed a trail for himself in the dark city. I have no doubt that the designer of this game is a loyal fan of film noir and Hong Kong action movies at the same time. The narrative method of "The True Colors of Heroes" using inner monologues and flashback dreams to explain the plot obviously comes from the former, and the design of Bullet Time Obviously it is a tribute to Wu Yusen, who inherited the slow motion aesthetics of Sam Parkin, and the "Kung Fu version" since then has directly dreamed of Xiangjiang. Therefore, when the gangster in the game interrogated the password: "Where are you from?" Max did not hesitate to answer "I am from Jianghu", so when his companion horrifiedly persuaded him not to try to jump from the bridge. When getting on the speeding train: "You are looking for death!", Max only left the sentence "I want to be a Chow Yunfa!"
What does Max Payne mean? It’s the true portrayal of my heart when I watched this bad film. If it doesn’t look like it at all, I’ll leave it alone, but at certain moments, it can evoke a little bit of your memories from the past, reminding you that it’s The authentic movie version of that game was made by God. This feeling is as heartbreaking as "My girlfriend is married, and the groom is not me"! It is also a movie of ACG style, "The Robber Ishikawa Goemon" is a big leap forward, and "Magic Star" is a big backwards. John Moore, if you sincerely just want the game fans to remember only the name of that game, instead of letting them re-experience the excitement, congratulations, you did it! I know this is actually not easy. The original game, which is already highly cinematic, will not be so mediocre even if it is moved to the screen as a cat or a tiger. Reversing also requires technology!
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