He’s a 67-year-old veteran of more than 150 film and TV projects, a member of one of Hollywood’s royal families, and the winner of several Emmy and Golden Globe awards. So you might be asking yourself: What the hell is Beau Bridges doing in “Max Payne?”
“I’ve never played [the video game], but I have five kids,” Bridges explained to us recently. “And when I told them that I was going to be in ‘Max Payne,’ they were all excited! They were like, ‘Oh, Dad, that’s awesome. I can’t believe it!’ So I knew it was a game that had a big following.”
Naturally, the big draws of the film are names like Mark Wahlberg, Ludacris and Mila Kunis. But it’s Bridges’ charismatic, borderline-maniacal businessman character who steals several key scenes away from the others, as Payne (Wahlberg) investigates which side he’s on in a bloody gang-vs.-cops war that’s consuming their city. Read More...
- Little known director Max Makowski reportedly signed on to helm “Voltron.” (
If you’re filming an interrogation scene these days, you'd better hope it can match up with the Joker versus Batman, who in “The Dark Knight” officially raise the bar on the old tried and true good cop/ bad cop routine. 
Mark Wahlberg has faced grief (“The Lovely Bones”), war (“Three Kings”), a wave the size of a skyscraper (“The Perfect Storm”) and nothing less than the apocalypse. Twice (“The Happening” and “Planet of the Apes”). But his most draining, emotionally charged role to date? Would you believe a video game character? 
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'Max Payne' Star Mark Wahlberg, Sam Raimi & Others Weigh In: Why Do Video Game Movies Suck?
Posted 10/17/08 3:57 pm EST by Larry Carroll in Commentary
Our resulting team-up article just went live over on MTV.com; in it, we interview top names from Hollywood (Sam Raimi, Mark Wahlberg, “Twilight” star Cam Gigandet) and the gaming community (Kyle Gabler from “2D Boy,” Harvey Smith of Arkane Studios and Chris Taylor from Gas Powered Games) to get their thoughts on why comic books yield gems like “Iron Man” and the “Dark Knight” while the gaming world leaves us hanging on “Hitman” and “Silent Hill.”
If you see “Max Payne” this weekend, leave a comment below and let us know if it finally breaks the video game-movie curse. In the meantime, here are my picks (in reverse order) for the worst gaming movies of all time: Read More...
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