I’m always good for a video game movie, though once is more than enough. Face it, if you dropped the money and time to get through boss levels and find secrets, what’s another $9 and 90 minutes going to hurt? In the case of the Doom movie, it could hurt plenty.

This fall Mark Wahlberg will have a chance to play Max Payne in the upcoming action flick Max Payne. In 2001, as a freshman at Keene State, I spent many a night consumed by this game. The story, graphics and “Bullet Time” blew me away. It practically played out like a movie. I was sad to watch it all end through a sniper scope on a skyscraper.

I don’t mind Marky Mark as an actor, and I think he can handle this role, though someone with a darker demeanor would have been cool. The thing: Max Payne is a cop who has nothing left but to get answers or get dead, can Mark pull that off? He has to play a guy with nothing to lose. (Well, if you saw Boogie Nights, you might say he could stand to lose a few inches. Man, even I’m grossed out by that one.)

Rounding out the cast we have Mila Kunis and Chris Bridges and Meg Griffin and Ludacris. But wait we also get Beau Bridges, Donal Logue and Chris O’Donnell too. Where the heck has Chris O’Donnell been anyway, waiting for a new Robin gig to surface?

Max Payne, as a game, was awesome and maybe my expectations will be a little high for this movie, but I have to be excited. Anything can be better than the debacle that was Doom (the movie). Did I mention that movie was a waste of time? Max Payne hits theaters October 17 in real time.