2008 · crime · action · drama
Max Payne
Directed by John Moore1h 40m2008
A DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death, join forces to solve a series of murders in New York City.
Our read: Max Payne (2008) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- twisty
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