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Mark Wahlberg Brings Max Payne To Life

Since the days of Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon, film adaptations of video games have almost always blown—cartridges (and cock). But for every financial failure like Doom there’s a Hitman that makes some paper and keeps the trend alive. The trailer for Max Payne, the latest of the live-action video game movies, hit the web today.

Based on the 2001 third-person noir shooter from Remedy Entertainment and Rockstar Games, the movie stars Mark Wahlberg as Payne, a maverick NYPD cop who ventures into the criminal underworld and uncovers a conspiracy while trying to solve the brutal slayings of his family and partner. Mila Kunis, The Wire’s Jamie Hector and Ludacris (the greatest rap thespian since LL Cool J!) also star. Based on the first preview, the movie will also incorporate certain supernatural elements. Watch the trailer after the jump.