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'Max Payne' is Like 'The Constant Gardener' After a Frontal Lobotomy

By Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) | October 21, 2008
Rather than focusing on making a kick-ass action flick, director John Moore and novice scripter Beau Thorne dress up their simplistic revenge yarn with various twists and turns -- all of which are absurdly easy to predict.
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