Let's talk about the pros and cons first. This movie uses a lens similar to Sin City and 300, and uses gray and white main colors to portray New York in winter, which is very in line with the atmosphere of the original game. Mark Wahlberg's grasp of the role is also very good (although he refused to play the original game because he was afraid of game addiction, watching the assistant to clear the level -_-+), it is indeed a depression because of the loss of his wife and daughter, in order to investigate his wife and daughter A murder detective who will stop at nothing. The plot is loyal to the original work, and the temperament of the main characters is very close to that in the game. Although the gangster part of the plot line has been deleted, the freighter in the dock scene is also a tribute to the original gangster arsenal. In the movie, the original Bullet Time, which was first used in various games later, was treated as a way of expressing in gunfights, rather than the ability of the protagonist like The Matrix, which also made the movie setting in line with reality. The feeling of the protagonist after taking the medicine is the highlight of the whole film. Valkyr, a military psychedelic drug used as a new drug (the word seems to be a harmonious word), is used to make people enter a hallucinatory state and treat each other as a demon and fall into a frenzied killing. When Payne stood up and New York was in hellfire in his eyes, it would have been shocking to see it in theaters (I was on DVD). At the end of the parking lot on the roof of the building, as in the finale of the game generation, it is over. The difference is that the final battle of the movie is to get rid of BB, the cadre of the pharmaceutical group, not the boss Horn.
Its advantages are also its disadvantages. Games adapted into movies, such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, are all extracting the elements of the game, rather than trying to make the game into a movie. The negative textbook is Final Fantasy. In the movie, it is like an RPG to collect 9 souls or how many souls, each of which has different locations and characteristics, and was criticized in a mess. Therefore, when the Max Payne movie version is too close to the original, it will fall into the trap of being unable to express the feeling of game interaction and weakening the appeal of the movie. The movie becomes a crude shootout. As soon as the big pharmaceutical company Aesir appeared in the front part of the film, it goes without saying that everyone knew that the old Boss must be here. Someone in the bar was taking drugs, the unknown blue liquid, and everyone knew that Aesir must have made it. So there is no accident in the development of the plot. If it weren't for the gunfight to stimulate the nerves, it would definitely be suffocating. This is also difficult for the film team, because the original work is really a classic work of expressing the game in a cinematic way, and the interaction with the NPC is completely the feeling of a gangster movie; when you secretly approach the enemy, listening to them talking about the dialogue related to the plot, you need to After eavesdropping on their dialogue, rush in to interrupt them, as you like; fire escape in the level, nightmare maze, full of expressiveness and plot tension. For a plot that requires more than ten hours of game time to express, it is impossible to completely compress it into a movie of one and a half hours, even without the combat puzzle part. And the director did choose the most unwise method: compression. The entire deletion of the line of gangsters does not affect the integrity of the plot, but the deletion of the line of political gangsters makes the whole film superficial. In the original work, Payne was originally just tracking down the murderer of his wife and daughter. With the deepening of the investigation, when the secrets of the pharmaceutical company are discovered, it is no longer possible to reverse the situation and avenge the hatred by one person. At this time, Mona, who had been following him secretly, provided the support of the politicians in the Inner Circle in a timely manner. In order to take revenge, Payne became the Hitman of these old guys and entered the pharmaceutical company. In the end, Mona, who showed his identity as a killer and had a good impression of Payne, "died" in the hands of the trailing killer. Because of the subtle feelings between the two of them in the previous cooperation, it came to an abrupt end. Finally, standing on the roof of the building, looking at the "abyss" under his feet, he only had deep despair (this desperate overlooking shot is five years earlier than the exact same shot of Sony God of War Kratos). But, as promised by the Inner Circle, he was eventually whitewashed and turned into an anti-black hero.
And what about movies? Payne traced the murderer of his wife and daughter, and found out that the pharmaceutical company was shady, and then killed the old Boss and his bodyguard by taking drugs, and was finally released? Come out and plan to kill the CEO of a pharmaceutical company? The bartender finally said "glad to have you back", how did you back? Even if you perform official duties or even self-defense, it can't change the fact that you took drugs first, Boss, you think you are Lin Jiaxiang, you can let it go if you say it? Your father isn't Li Gang either? There is also Mona. In the original work, she has always been the killer of the Inner Circle. She hopes to protect her sister or even liberate her. It is just a good wish, and her sister was killed very early. In the contact with her mission target - Payne, she fell in love with this handsome man, but in the end he was shot to protect Payne and disappeared in the elevator (of course, this bridge is more than Resident Evil 2 King Ada fell and hangs Ladder is four years late). In the 2nd generation, he resolutely entered the Inner Circle with Payne, (serious game spoiler attention)
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In the end, Xiang Xiaoyuyu was still in front of Payne.
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In the movie, she became a hot-blooded sister. As soon as she came out, she decided to find the murderer together with Payne. After entering the pharmaceutical company building with Payne, the elevator in the elevator The plot was changed to escape safely. One minute after the final stuff, the finale was the worst. Payne went to the bar to meet Mona, who threw him a newspaper that said Aesir was getting better and better under Horn's leadership. The eyes of the two met, and they were clearly saying "did it". Arrange for a sequel like this? Although Horn must be the boss behind the scenes, and she must have at least acquiesced in the death of Payne's wife and daughter, but the old woman in the whole film did not do anything against them, and Jason reported to her the Iraqi soldiers (their experiments). She didn't say anything about the matter, although she obviously knew about it, she didn't answer the phone when BB asked for help, and made BB an abandoned child. Are you going to take someone's home now? This is completely different from the original being half-coerced by the Inner Circle to kill Horn.
So, if you know the original, you will resonate with the game elements in it, but you won't get the deep sympathy for Payne and Mona in the game. If you never knew the original, it's probably an action movie with lots of explosions and intense gunfights. The simple compression of the plot of the original work by the director has resulted in the loss of a large amount of data, and still has not escaped the two unfortunate traps of the game adaptation movie. Of course, the shootout scene in the play is well designed, and it fits the feel of BulletTime very well.
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In fact, the ideal rhythm should be to further compact the plot. As soon as he came out, Payne fell into a crazy state of tracing the murder of his wife and daughter. He thought that the person who found the drug would be able to take revenge, and Mona was ignored. The progress of this plot will also suit the audience. expectations. Revenge is the first climax. After extorting a confession from the key informants of the pharmaceutical company, they found that without the support of the government, they could not be so arrogant. If Payne wanted to take real revenge, he could only kill half of the political circles. Here are the plot questions that the audience didn't expect. At this time, Mona showed him the support of the Inner Circle at the right time, and then escaping from the informant was the second climax. Or Payne did not escape successfully, and added the arrest plot of the original work (you can also use BB in the movie to deal with Payne's plot), and finally, the two entered the pharmaceutical company building together, killed countless security guards, and killed BB. If you want to leave a foreshadowing, in the end Alfred Wooden will show up (if Mona is designed to "die") and reveal to Payne (the audience) the political struggle behind the pharmaceutical company, Payne will be coerced by the Inner Circle to kill Horn. The plot of the second movie can be unfolded.
In any case, if you can recognize the dark and gloomy atmosphere this film strives to convey, and accept the gunfights of Bullet Time, it is still a film worth watching.
The protagonist is called Max Payne, the homonym is max pain, endless pain. In the game between politics and consortium forces, he couldn't help himself. He lost everything but had nowhere to seek justice. Killing was the last resort, but it meant nothing to him. At the end of the two games in the game, Payne, who lost Mona twice, killed the enemy in front of him, but he was powerless against the dark sky that tightly surrounded him. For the psychedelic exchange (continue to harmony) Valkyr, it is the homonym of Valkyrie, the Valkyrie in Norse mythology. In Norse mythology, only those who die in battle (the film says, die in violence) can be led to Valhalla, where the soul fights for Odin. This is exactly in line with the fate of Payne's killing. The bar of the Iraqi soldiers in the film, called Raglan and Brock, was called Raglan and Brock because of the damage to the lighting, and it became Ragnarock (Beijing Welcomer), the "gods of the dead" in Norse mythology. Twilight". If this can be connected to the plot of killing the old boss, it will be perfect.
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