Max Payne (2008) on Netflix
PG-1320081h 40mActionCrimeDrama
Cold case detective Max Payne hunts whoever killed his wife and infant daughter. When Natasha, an acquaintance of one of his informants, is murdered, her sister Mona Sax comes looking for him.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb5.3/10134,949 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes16%
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Plot summary
NYPD detective Max Payne lost his wife Michelle and their infant daughter Rose to a murder that was never solved. He asked to work the cold case unit so he could keep hunting the person responsible. Two people reach out to him: Alex Balder, his former partner, and BB Hensley, head of security at the drug company where Michelle worked. Bodies are piling up, several of them users of an addictive street drug that brings hallucinations. Natasha, the woman Payne had last seen alive, is one of the dead, and her sister Mona Sax comes after him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Max Payne (2008)
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- The role of Lieutenant Jim Bravura was written for a 60-year-old man, but Ludacris won the part anyway after auditioning for director John Moore.
- The filmmakers ran a contest among ten different visual-effects houses to design the film's drug-hallucination sequences, and Canadian studio Spin won by reimagining falling snow as burning embers over a painted New York City skyline.
- The climactic gunfight inside Aesir Headquarters alone took a full week to film and used more than 6,000 squibs to simulate gunfire.
- IGN gave Max Payne its 'Best Videogame Adaptation' award for 2008 as a backhanded compliment, saying the field was so weak that the winner was a movie the site had otherwise panned.
