The series is named after its protagonist, Max Payne , a New York City police detective turned vigilante after his family had been murdered by drug dealers. The first game of the series, Max Payne , was released in for Microsoft Windows and in for PlayStation 2 , Xbox , and Apple Macintosh ; a different version of the game was released for the Game Boy Advance in In , a movie adaption, loosely based on the original game, entitled Max Payne , was released, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis in the roles of Max Payne and Mona Sax , respectively. The franchise is notable for its use of " bullet time " in action sequences, as well as being positively received by critics, although Max Payne 2 ' s sales were considered underwhelming. As the story unfolds, he gains a number of "allies", including a Russian mafia gangster, called Vladimir Lem, and Mona Sax, a female vigilante who is out to avenge the death of her twin sister, Lisa, and manages to bring down the ringleaders in a major drug operation for a narcotic called V , or Valkyr—after the mythological figures in Norse mythology. Max Payne has been taken by the police and is about to face charges for his killing spree.

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Max Payne is a neo-noir action thriller film based on the video game series of the same name developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games. It was written by Beau Thorne and directed by John Moore. The film revolves around revenge , centering on a policeman's journey through New York City's criminal underworld, as he investigates the deaths of his wife and child. Filming took place between March and May