If only things were that simple: the plot is twisted even more with a subplot concerning a mind-altering drug called Valkyr, which makes everything look like Hell on screen and destroys Norse mythology's credibility off screen. With some minor adjustments, this could easily be the latest installment of Death Wish. When a Ukrainian girl (Olga Kurylenko) is found dead with his wallet in her pocket, he's immediately charged with the murder, and the only way to clear himself is to find a thug named Lupino (Amaury Nolasco), who might even have something to do with Mrs.

For those not familiar with the game, the story centers on the titular cop (Wahlberg), a brilliant homicide detective who's been reassigned after the brutal murder of his wife and kid. Plus, it comes off as a mix of fantasy, action and revenge thriller - in short, a mess. Secondly, it's directed by John Moore, whose body of work is all but encouraging (he remade The Omen, for crying out loud). For starters, it's based on a video game, and those never turn out well on film. But hey, few people expected Payne to be any good in the first place. None of those, however, is as bad as Max Payne, which just about tails The Truth About Charlie for the title of Wahlberg's career low. Ever since he obtained a fully deserved Oscar nomination for The Departed, he has struggled to hit it as big again: Shooter was enjoyable but unmistakably shallow, We Own the Night received very mixed reactions, and The Happening was one of the most unjustly panned movies of 2008 (well, minus the plastic plant scene).

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