This is actually good. On Friday, my Gmail webclip headline read "Rotten Tomatoes: Max Payne - 8". When I clicked to read the reviews, I was horrified to see the TomatoMeter drop one percent lower. And while I donapos;t entirely agree with Rotten Tomatoesapos; standards for considering a movie "fresh," I do believe that if only one out of ten movie critics can see anything good in a film--and with preconditions at that--then there really must be something wrong with the picture. Since Max Payne has now jumped up by 10 percentage points, one can argue that liking the movie adaptation of the popular video game is a matter of taste.
Poorly crafted movies usually give rise to the more interesting, if scathing reviews written by critics. As Anton Ego in Ratatouille confesses, critics "thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read." The fact that the movieapos;s title is a play on the word "pain" makes it worse.
I find Peter Traversapos; review especially amusing, because in the closing credits of the video game (which is anything but endless--it was shockingly brief) the promise of a sequel actually comes at the end. It seems the filmmakers stayed too true to the video game, which raises other problems:
Thatapos;s a real shame, because the game became popular because of bullet-time. (I used bullet-time sparingly in the game. It felt like a kind of cheat. Now that Iapos;m playing Medal of Honor, though, I find myself occasionally looking for the slo-mo button.) If the movie couldnapos;t even get that correctly, what can it get right? For movie critic Roger Moore (no, not THE Roger Moore), the answer is "nothing":
I knew the remark about video games being emotionally inferior to movies, and no one ever weeping at the death of a video game character (Aeris immediately popped into my mind) would draw a lot of flak. All the 76 comments to the criticapos;s remarks are attacks on his integrity as a critic and his relative ignorance of other mediums of storytelling. (To be frank, though, the video-game-title-dropping isnapos;t much help.) Of the 76, this one I found most memorable:
I couldnapos;t stop laughing. Disgust and outrage are the parents of wit.
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