FACT ONE: Awesome From Start to Finnish "Max Payne" the movie is based on "Max Payne" the videogame, a third-person shooter about a renegade cop named (you guessed it) Max Payne. The style of the movie is heavily influenced by director John Woo's Hong Kong action films like Hard Boiled. But game developer Remedy Entertainment, based in Finland, also included many references to Norse mythology. Many characters and locations are named after Norse gods, and the dark, snowy setting is an allusion to "Ragnarock," the mythological end of the world.

FACT TWO: Good Vibrations, Bad Game Mark Wahlberg stars in the film as Max, a renegade cop out to track down the murderers of his family and partner. It's his first time playing a character from a video game, but back in 1992 he was a character in a videogame. "Make My Video" was a series on the Sega CD platform that let players re-edit music videos, including two from his rap persona, Marky Mark. PC World.ca put it at number eight on their list of the 10 worst games of all time.

FACT THREE: Little Angelina Told a Big Fib Joining Wahlberg as assassin Mona Sax is Mila Kunis. Mila was born in what was then the Soviet Union, and she gets to speak Russian in the movie. She started acting at age nine, and later played the young version of Angelina Jolie's character in Gia. To get her big break on TV's "That '70s Show," Mila lied about her age. Only 14 at the time, she told the casting agents she'd be 17 "on her birthday." It was only after she got the role that she admitted she didn't specify which birthday she was talking about.

FACT FOUR: A Funky Bunch of Costars Not only has Mark Wahlberg made the transition from rapper to movie star, but he's acted alongside many other actors who've done the same. He worked with Ice Cube in Three Kings, Mos Def in The Italian Job, and Andre '3000' Benjamin in Four Brothers. In this movie, he's joined by Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, who plays Jim Bravura, the internal affairs agent on Max Payne's trail. Ludacris will also be seen this fall (though not credited under his stage name) in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla.