Max Payne is based on a videogame, but is there any hope it'll be as good as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its sequel? I kid -- obviously, it wouldn't take much to be as good or better than the Tomb Raider films -- but only sort of. Because all of the Marilyn Manson music; large black winged creatures carrying dead (or passed out?) humans; and the hotness of Mark Wahlberg in the trailer (and why exactly is Wahlberg seen so little in the trailer of a movie that he's the star of, anyway?) cannot cover up the fact that Max Payne looks decidedly lacking in substance. Of course it's pretty. There's candlelight; artsy-looking explosions; dark, industrial architecture; Mila Kunis; and did we mention Mark Wahlberg? But prettiness is not enough to cover up a movie that has nothing to it. Maybe it's precisely because it's based on a videogame, or maybe it's because the filmmakers failed here, but this movie doesn't seem to have much beneath the surface.