"Max Payne" Gets a PG-13 Rating

Is it good that Max Payne has gotten a PG-13 rating? The trailer makes it seem pretty violent, and if it’s that violent, maybe they should have gone for an R rating. They’re probably doing their best to appeal to the teenage-boy-video-gamer crowd, though.

At any rate, the movie IS rated PG-13, and in a Game Daily interview, director John Moore says he didn’t have to change much. “We trimmed some frames, more for the sake of trimming frames than anything, but we got the rating without any major changes at all.”

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He adds, “I’m a little surprised that we changed their minds, effectively, but I’m happy about it. It proves that if you stick to your guns and you have the creative — and dare I say, moral — sense, that you’re in the right, that you can get the right thing done.”

Ok, the movie revolves around and revels in gun violence, so it seems bizarre to me that the MPAA rated it PG-13. And, on the flip side, will reining in the violence to appeal to the teen crowd have a detrimental affect on the movie? Maybe they should have just gone for it and let the violence flow with an R rating!

Image: Max Payne, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 2008