Basic vs Max Payne

Basic has the higher audience score (6.5/10 against 5.4/10 for Max Payne). Basic is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 1h 40m. Basic is the older of the two (2003 against 2008). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Basic posterBasic2003 VS Max Payne posterMax Payne2008
BasicMax Payne
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 5.4/10
Year20032008
Length1h 38m1h 40m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorJohn McTiernanJohn Moore
Main castSamuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Dash Mihok, Giovanni Ribisi, Connie NielsenAmaury Nolasco, Donal Logue, Mila Kunis, Ludacris, Olga Kurylenko

Synopsis

Basic

When a hurricane hits a US Army base on the edge of the Panama Canal, an elite covert operations team of US Army Rangers recruits are on a routine jungle training exercise that goes horribly awry. Only two recruits are rescued, one of which is badly injured, but both have different accounts regarding the fate of their leader, legendary and ruthless Army Ranger Drill Sergeant Nathan West, and the rest of their platoon. Tom Hardy, an ex-army…

Max Payne

A DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy, and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death, join forces to solve a series of murders in New York City.

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