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Saw it tonight. Totally sweet! Don't expect an exact recreation of the full game storyline though. Mostly it deals with Lupino until later on. Turns out the Valkyries are just halucinations of people who took the drug, which oddly is colored blue in the series.
(spoilers)
A couple jarring differences you'll notice...Jim Bravura, that gruff voiced pale white fedora wearing four-eyed red-head is for some strange damn reason a younger black guy. Also, there's little to no mafia in here, more dealing with Valkyr and people having gone cultish on Nordic beliefs. The movie takes place as more than one night, and nobody is chasing Payne until much later. A guy called "BB" takes the place of Nicole Horne as the film's ultimate antagonist, though Horne is seen several times in the film, and is obviously in on it. The worst thing though, is that while the film ends on the Aesir rooftop like in the game, you can forget about the glorious crushed and exploding helicopter that gets crushed under the falling radio tower, because the chopper (while needed by the fleeing BB) never touches down or even comes close.
But obviously I liked the movie, so these things, while surprising and docking a point or two, don't bother me too much. The core drive of the story survived and I really was amazed at how good sets for iconic places in the game were recreated. We get to see Roscoe Street Station, The Ragnarok and much of the well recreated Aesir building. The feel of the game is well imbued throughout the film, and while bullet time only makes a couple short appearances, the movie holds it's own for badassery, including one moment were in pitch black, Max's eyes are seen intermitently through the muzzle flash of his machine gun (which is mowing down a group of Aesir security guards) with a wild and crazed look that for me made the whole fim.
Basically, if you keep an open mind about it, you'll love it, despite the few flaws that I think should have been corrected.
Anyone else see it?
(spoilers)
A couple jarring differences you'll notice...Jim Bravura, that gruff voiced pale white fedora wearing four-eyed red-head is for some strange damn reason a younger black guy. Also, there's little to no mafia in here, more dealing with Valkyr and people having gone cultish on Nordic beliefs. The movie takes place as more than one night, and nobody is chasing Payne until much later. A guy called "BB" takes the place of Nicole Horne as the film's ultimate antagonist, though Horne is seen several times in the film, and is obviously in on it. The worst thing though, is that while the film ends on the Aesir rooftop like in the game, you can forget about the glorious crushed and exploding helicopter that gets crushed under the falling radio tower, because the chopper (while needed by the fleeing BB) never touches down or even comes close.
But obviously I liked the movie, so these things, while surprising and docking a point or two, don't bother me too much. The core drive of the story survived and I really was amazed at how good sets for iconic places in the game were recreated. We get to see Roscoe Street Station, The Ragnarok and much of the well recreated Aesir building. The feel of the game is well imbued throughout the film, and while bullet time only makes a couple short appearances, the movie holds it's own for badassery, including one moment were in pitch black, Max's eyes are seen intermitently through the muzzle flash of his machine gun (which is mowing down a group of Aesir security guards) with a wild and crazed look that for me made the whole fim.
Basically, if you keep an open mind about it, you'll love it, despite the few flaws that I think should have been corrected.
Anyone else see it?