The Omen (2006)
Directed by John Moore
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
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As well as treading in the demonically small footsteps of The Omen and The Ring, Spanish director Collet-Serra (who, let’s not forget, gave the world Paris Hilton’s secondmost downloaded oral video moment in 2005’s House Of Wax) also borrows from every distraught married couple/psycho-in-the-house thriller from The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Fatal Attraction to Don’t Look Now.
Unfortunately, Max Payne director John Moore isn't exactly know for his bold artistic vision, as anyone who sat through his dire 2006 update of The Omen can attest.
Responsible for flashy misfires like The Omen, Flight of the Phoenix and Behind Enemy Lines, his films have never aspired to cinematic greatness, but are not very good, either.
Beau Thorne, a recent film school graduate with no previous feature credits, wrote the screenplay as if he were paid per explosion, and director John Moore has mostly made remakes ("The Omen" and "Flight of the Phoenix" do-overs were his).
Directed by John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, the 2006 remake of The Omen), Max Payne betrays its origins as a video game with its tough-guy protagonist operating in a seedy urban jungle that recalls film noir and graphic novels.
Based on a Finnish video game and brought to you by several of the people who recently remade “The Omen” (2006), “Max Payne” is an ultraviolent PG-13-rated film in which everything is borrowed from some other, better movie.
At least "Max Payne," which boasts a reasonably cool-looking trailer, isn't directed by Boll, but, well, helmer John Moore ("The Omen") isn't exactly Tarantino either.
David Thewlis (2006's " The Omen ") plays Bruno's military father as stern and set in his ways, a man in desperate need of a wake-up call.