This all looks great, except on PS2 (don’t even bother with Payne 2 if that’s your system). As you enter slow-motion “bullet time,” hordes of attackers twist and fall in an orgy-like spectacle. This is sexy violence: shot-up bodies stiffen and reel, tumbling down stairs, blood spurting. “It’s like kissing the barrel of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, about to blow your head off.” So goes, roughly, Max’s meditation on love during the graphic-novel-style opening scene. And Max’s love interest? A contract killer who survived being shot in the head, and who you also play: Mona Sax. Bloodied and murderous-and, in this sequel, falling in love with a woman carrying more emotional baggage than Witherspoon’s Elle Woods has pink Gucci suitcases-Max Payne embodies the depthlessness and injustice of human suffering. Justice is blind Reese Witherspoon, fairness personified, is blond.
Nor did I punderstand Max Payne, a cop whose entire family was killed in the original game, and who then took untold bullets (and whatever pain killers were lying around) avenging them. I’m a little slow-I didn’t realize Legally Blonde played on “legally blind” until renting the sequel.
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