For fanboy devotees of the videogame on which it is based, Max Payne is pure pleasure. But everyone else may not want to take this walk on the dark side.

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Max Payne started life as a popular 2001 videogame and now the dark, dreary material has morphed into feature film that tries to give a back story for the tortured title character. Payne's (Mark Wahlberg) wife and newborn baby are tragically killed and now Max, a DEA agent, is involved in the investigation of a series of murders that…

It doesn't look, sound or resonate like a movie, so what is Max Payne? It's a videogame, people, masquerading as cinema and yet one more blight on pop culture. Mark Wahlberg has followed his deserved Oscar nomination for The Departed with questionable choices, such as Shooter and The Happening. But this is a career low. Max Payne is a dank, dispiriting cop flick that merely requires Wahlberg to wear a scowl that could have been painted on digitally with more expressiveness. Wahlberg's Max is…