"Clap for Alaska!" - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons Movie

  Yes yes yes!!

  Feast your dreary eyes on this and let your monacles shatter on the floor as you gasp. Finally, someone has decided to make a movie version of one of my personal favourite PC games of yesteryear, Max Payne.

  For the uninitiated, Max Payne, the game, is a 3rd person shooter in which you use the titular character and seek revenge on those who killed your family. No, that's not a spoiler, it's the premise for the game and Mr. Payne's eventual blood-soaked murder spree.

  Known for it's use of the bullet time effect made famous in The Matrix, the game was a blast to play. And the whole film noir setting seems to have made the translation to the big screen. There'll no doubt be a whole lot of runnin' & gunnin' and I just hope they don't mess up the show.

  Another thing I can't wait for? Those crazy, CRAZY dream sequences from the game to be integrated somehow in the movie. I can still hear the sounds of that baby crying...

  I'm not sure if anyone who reads this blog has actually played the game, save for Wing Hoh who I'm pretty sure did, though I might be wrong, but if you haven't and enjoy some really enjoyable shoot em' ups, get Max Payne 1 and 2 for your PC.

Kuhanesh