Kunis had played the video game before reading the script but did not progress very far into it. Mila Kunis as Mona Sax: A Russian-American assassin who seeks revenge for the murder of her sister.But the beauty in his life was taken away. Here's a very happy guy who worked a dismal job, had a beautiful family. While describing his role, Wahlberg has said, "It's probably one of the edgier roles I've played but also the most layered. When Wahlberg first read the script he thought it was "awesome", but was wary after finding out it was based on a video game. Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne: An NYPD officer out for revenge against his family's killer.If he'd turned me down, I don't think the project would have happened. I was also very nervous because if he'd said "no", I really didn't have a go-to guy. Max and Mona then look at one another with understanding and renewed purpose. Mona shows Max a newspaper with Aesir CEO Nicole Horne's picture on the front. He sees a vision of his wife and child smiling at him, and suddenly comes to, as the sun cuts through the clouds and a SWAT team surrounds him.Ī post-credits scene shows Max and Mona in a bar. His vengeance complete, he falls to his knees, ready to die. Assisted by Mona, he shoots his way through the building's security, eventually confronting and killing B.B.
back to the Aesir Cooperation's headquarters. He swims to shore and, to prevent hypothermia, consumes vials of Valkyr stuffed in his pockets by B.B., which causes him to see intense hallucinations but also makes him nigh-invincible. He almost drowns, but hears the voice of his wife telling him it is not yet time for him to die.
He tries to drown Max in a faked suicide, but Max breaks free and dives into the icy river. explains that he has been secretly selling Valkyr for personal profit and admits to killing Michelle after she found incriminating evidence that could have exposed him. He then has Max knocked out and brought to the city docks.ī.B. ( Beau Bridges) - Aesir's head of security and a father figure to Max - arrives and shoots Lupino dead. Max confronts Lupino, now a powerful gangster involved with the trafficking of Valkyr as a designer drug, at his warehouse hideout, and the two men fight until Lupino gains the upper hand. Lupino explains in the video that while taking the drug, he feels invincible, and suffers none of the side effects. Max agrees, but then SWAT officers (Aesir contractors in disguise) raid the office, killing Jason and attracting Bravura's attention.Īfter an intense gunfight, Max escapes with the evidence and shows Mona a video explaining the Valkyr project and featuring Jack Lupino, a former Marine who was one of Aesir's successful test subjects.
Jason agrees to testify against his employers, as long as Max can protect him. Unfortunately, only a few subjects showed positive results the rest saw hallucinations and eventually went insane, forcing Aesir to terminate the project and cover up their involvement. Max interrogates Michelle's former supervisor, Jason Colvin ( Chris O'Donnell), in his office at Aesir and learns that Michelle was involved with the development of Valkyr, a drug that the company produced under military contract in an attempt to create super-soldiers. Max goes to secretly take some of Michelle's belongings out of storage and finds that documents from when she worked at the Aesir Corporation, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, have gone missing. Max and Mona Sax ( Mila Kunis), a freelance assassin and Natasha's sister, visit Natasha's tattoo parlor, where the tattoo artist reveals the meaning behind Natasha's tattoo: it represents the wings of a Valkyrie, which, in Norse mythology, are creatures that decide the fate of warriors in battle. Bravura ( Ludacris) of Internal Affairs is tasked with bringing him in. Max's former partner, Alex Balder ( Donal Logue), is slain in his home after informing Max of a possible connection between Natasha's death and his family's murder. He comes under suspicion from the NYPD when Natasha, an acquaintance of one of Max's informants, is brutally murdered and Max's wallet (which she had stolen) is found at the crime scene. He lost his wife Michelle and infant daughter Rose in a horrific murder since that day, Max has been consumed by the desire to find his family's killer. Max Payne ( Mark Wahlberg) is a detective assigned to the NYPD Cold Case Unit.