Blackhat (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Thematically timely but dramatically inert, Blackhat strands Chris Hemsworth in a muddled misfire from director Michael Mann.
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as Nick Hathaway
as Carol Barrett
as Chen Lien
as Chen Dawai
as Mark Jessup
as Elias Kassar
as Rich Donahue
as Alex Trang
as Jeff Robichaud
as Henry Pollack
as Sadak
as Tech
as Sort Guard
as Associate Warden Jeffries
as Shum
as Daniels
as George Reinker
as Alonzo Reyes
as Gary Baker
as Lieutentant Colonel Zhao
as Major Yuan
as Waiter
as Mrs. Novo
as 18th Street Gangster
as Korean Waiter
as Korean Thug
as Chow
as Johnny Li
as Yang Lin
as Samuel Wu
as Keith Yan
as Paul Wang
as Emergency Worker
as Emergency Worker
as EMT
as EMT
as Bahasha Speaker
as Tall Indonesian Banker
as United Captain
as Inmate
as Inmate
as Ambulance Driver
as Ambulance Driver
as Young Men at Papua Square
as Young Men at Papua Square
as Commodities Broker
as Commodities Broker
as Commodities Broker
as Commodities Broker
as Indonesian Banker
as Indonesian Banker
as Indonesian Bodyguard
as Indonesian Bodyguard
as Indonesian Bodyguard
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Hints of a quasi-apocalyptic chill seem arbitrary-neither symbolic nor dramatic. The effect is like watching software run itself.
Nobody can top Mann's urban night scenes, with their oily neon and skyscraper light grids, but for the most part this plays like Heat without the heat.
Let's start with the fact that Hemsworth stars as the world's most brilliant hacker. Let that sink in for a moment.
The movie's most depressing feature is its naked pandering for overseas box office. If there's one thing worse than appealing to the lowest common American denominator, it's appealing to the lowest common global denominator.
It has a decent ludicrousness and Mann's one-of-a-kind talent for using digital photography and naturalistic light to complicate and invigorate anonymous spaces.
Given our brave new cyber world, someone in Hollywood is going to have to come up with a better way to do it. Watching actors tap out code as big buzzing screens of digital data flash on the screen just doesn't cut it.
Audience Reviews for Blackhat
It's good... but just too slow moving.
Super Reviewer
Cyber thriller that relies on its style instead of an engaging plot. A much leaner, shorter film would have worked better, but Mann still knows how to film terrifying shootouts. There just aren't that many here, sadly. The locations are pretty great too, but the hacking elements just don't work as well as the conspiracy thriller parts. There are still quite a few memorable scenes here, especially thanks to the exotic locations and the charismatic leading duo, but the result could have been so much more engaging.
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The film's story and direction are both perfectly fine, run-of-the-mill, mass market Hollywood action. The problems here are the unconvincing and unheroic Hemsworth in the role of the hero, a typically snotty-for-no-reason Viola Davis setting an inappropriate tone, and some really, really, really stupid situations that should have been reconsidered by the director. However, if you can buy absurdities like men bulldozing their way through a parade with no one noticing, a man violently stabbing two men to death with a screwdriver in the middle of the parade (again!) with no one noticing, and crowds of people fleeing in terror TOWARD gunmen who are opening fire in the middle of a parade, then "Blackhat" may be a wonderful film for you. For the rest of us, we may need to work particularly hard to suspend disbelief if we are to enjoy this film.
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