There's a new video game adapted to film in town, and it's name is Max Payne. Based on the infamous third person shooter, the film takes the storyline into a whole new level with Mark Wahlburg as Max Payne.

I don't believe in heaven. I believe in pain.

The plot appears simple enough ... N.Y. Detective Max Payne's family was brutally murdered several years ago, and he has been searching to find the killer or killers, during his off-duty hours. The only clue left behind (not sure if this is in the film ... this was in the game) is a big "V" painted on the wall with a syringe sticking out of it.

Unfortunately, his off-the-books tactics has made him unpopular within the Police Department. Two more murders point to Max, as a suspect. But, office politics and false accusations are NOT gonna stop Max from dealing out his own justice.

His investigation leads him to Mona Sax, a bad-ass assassin-for-hire with a vendetta of her own. Together they seek out a tattoo artist, who may have some insight to a mysterious drug on the streets, that cause horrific hallucinations of large, winged Norse creatures (some high, huh?).

Ultimately, the drug sends Max deeper and deeper into a very dark world, filled with conspiracies he does not want to even try to understand ... he simply wants - a reckoning.

• Max Payne - Mark Wahlburg (this must be Marky Mark week, as I am writing about these films - The Happening and Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes ... watch for him in next year's, The Lovely Bones)
• Mona Sax - Mila Kunis (yes, the one and only Jackie from That 70s Show, American Psycho 2: All-American Girl, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Roger Corman's Piranha)
• Natasha, Mona's Sister - Olga Kurylenko (Hitman,  and look for her in the upcoming James Bond film - Quantum of Solace, and Tyranny)
• BB Hensley, Max's friend and former cop turned head of security for a large pharmaceutical company - Beau Bridges (Major General Landry of Stargate: Continuum, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate SG-1 ... Charlotte's Web, 10.5 and 10.5: Apocalypse, Sightings: Heartland Ghost, Voyage of the Unicorn, RocketMan, The Uninvited, Million Dollar Babies, Vault of Horror, Alice Through the Looking Glass, James A. Michener's Space mini series,  The Fifth Musketeer, one of my favs - Swashbuckler, Village of the Giants)
• Jack Lupino, doped-up Villain - Amaury Nolasco (currently playing Sucre in the hit FOX tv series - Prison Break, Transformers)
• Jason Colvin, Max's wife's former colleague - Chris O'Donnell (Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and 1993 version of The Three Musketeers)
• Jim Bravura, Internal Affairs - Rapper, Chris "Ludicris" Bridges (look for more of him in next year's futuristic thriller, Game)
• Nicole Horne, CEO of Aesir Corp. - Kate Burton (Medium, Stay, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, and John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China)
• Alex Balder, Max's former partner - Donald Logue (currently seen on the series, Life, as Capt. Tidwell, Ghost Rider, The Patriot, Hackers 2: Takedown, Blade, and look for him in next year's horror flick, The Lodger)
• Christa Balder - singer, Nelly Furtado

For more info about the film, visit the Official Max Payne Website:

http://www.maxpaynethemovie.com

Release Date: October 17th, 2008