It all started?with a video game.

The game known as Max Payne was famous in its time for the excessive violence, over-the-top action, and the sadistic glee that the game was to play. With guns blazing, time-altering effects similar to those used in the over-hyped piece of garbage known as The Matrix series, and some of the most entertaining gunfights to appear in a video game in recent history, Max Payne was a violent action video game player's fanciest dream. Sure, the story is a little too close to the background of the Marvel Comics character Frank Castle (the Punisher, for those of you who are unaware), but that doesn't take away the fact that the game was incredibly fun.

Now there's a movie of it that's coming out.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, the movie is slated to follow the basic premise of the games. Which means that this ought to be a violent, action-packed story of a man seeking revenge for the death of his loved ones, right? However, I don't exactly recall there being an assassin involved in the plot of the first game, even if there was a prominent female protagonist in the story of the second game. Since no word was given on which game the story of the movie followed  or if they were basing it on a game at all  then I suppose it isn't that big of a problem to see a character that wasn?t from the original plot. So long as the adaptation is violent and does the name justice, then I don't think anyone but the purists would complain.

However, I will admit I'm worried. Wahlberg's been in one crap movie this year, and video games have generally not translated well when turned into movies. I seriously doubt this will be anything Oscar worthy, but I do hope it will be fun in the same way that the game was. We?ll just have to wait and see, won?t we?

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