Max Payne unfortunately follows an abundance of game-to-film adaptations which seem excellent in premise, but are completely lacking in execution. Favouring style over substance, they leave fans disappointed and critics bewildered.
The story follows Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg), a haunted New York cop, assigned to the cold case unit from homicide, upon the murder of his wife
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You could be forgiven for mistaking Zack and Miri Make a Porno, a tale of loveable losers Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri’s (Elizabeth Banks) desperate bid to pay the bills with a career in hardcore porn, for the latest offering from the Judd ‘Knocked Up’ Apatow stable. It shares a superficially crass premise that
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The original Gears was one of Xbox’s defining moments. It flaunted next-gen graphics, over the top gore and amazing online play. Gears 2 attempts to do the same, just on a grander scale. The third person shooter may be almost identical to the last instalment, but it’s still one of the best 360 games about.
After
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Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) is forced to investigate his stepbrother Jimmy Egan (Collin Farrell) after four cops are found dead in a New York drug den. Family loyalties are further tested as father Francis Tierney Sr. (Jon Voight) and brother Francis Tierney Junior’s (Noah Emmrich) police roles come under scrutiny. After an odd opening (starting
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The most recent chick-flick to hit our screens features an exclusively female cast, and is fittingly titled The Women. A remake of the 1939 hit, this updated version stars Meg Ryan as Mary Haines, a wealthy woman with an enviable life, whose world comes crashing down as she discovers her husband has been having an
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Eight-year-old Jessamy Harrison, the daughter of a Nigerian mother and a British father, spends hours hiding motionless in the family’s linen closet, attempting to find some sort of ‘fragile peace.’ Prone to uncontrollable screaming fits, she also experiences high fevers and panic attacks, and often talks to herself. Highly strung, she struggles to relate to
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Estranged from his family, broke, and mourning the death of his twin brother (who he hasn’t seen in three years), Jerry Shaw (Shia LeBeouf) returns home to find his apartment filled with various weaponry, multiple passports and a number of flight manuals. Understandably confused, he receives a phone call from a mysterious woman who informs
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Resi revamped its survival horror idea with its fourth outing, exchanging insanely built mansions and police stations for an evil Spanish Cult. Resident Evil 4 was an instant hit by just placing the camera over the player’s shoulder allowed for free aiming. Want to shoot a zombie’s head off? Want to fire a spinning axe
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Releasing a survival horror in today’s next generation market is a tough skull to crack. The ensuing franchise war has seen development giants such as Capcom (Resident Evil), SCE Japan Studios (Siren: Blood Curse) hack, slash and massacre every detail to ensure that you’re too afraid to play through their games. However, lurking in the
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About 1/4 of the whole games floor was taken up by a variety of Street Fighter booths. From the completed arcade version, to Street Fighter HD Remix were all available to play. As an avid fan of the series I eagerly queued for the Xbox version of SFIV. With the classic beat-em’ up rule of winner stays on I got
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