Max Payne (the movie)

I've had a busy day today, because several packages I had been waiting for finally arrived. Among them was my computer! Yay, I'm once again able to game and watch por.. movies. I immediately bought Fallout 3 GOTY edition and will be enjoying it in a few years. I started downloading it two hours ago and am up to 7% now; the one major drawback about digital purchases! Anyways...

So over the weekend I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which was absolutely hilarious, and afterwords Max Payne came on. I wasn't actually watching the TV since we had pulled out the Christmas tree and were working on getting it up (a bit late, I know,) but as the movie began I was sort of drawn in and after the first five minutes had totally started ignoring the tree in favor of the movie.

I'm not a huge "movies based on video games" guy, though I sometimes give them a shot. I loved Doom, even though it had nothing to do with the game whatsoever (not set on Mars, not about him killing demons,) but I really loathed what they did with Resident Evil. Having never played Max Payne, I was not at all interested in the movie when it first came out.

I do tend to like a well done crime noir film, but often times they just fall short of what I would enjoy. Too many cliches and whatnot really kill the genre for me, most of the time.

Anyways, apparently it got a lot of bad reviews based on the plot and Mark Wahlberg's acting. I found neither to be particularly bad, and as I said overall I enjoyed the movie. Besides, it is mostly action and cool special effects, so I don't think it really needs to have a stupendous plot and great acting.

Anyways, now that I've seen the film, I'm definitely going to check out the game. What about you? Do you ever check out a game because of the film, instead of vice versa? Do you usually like video game films, or no?