The Quick Fix: Uninspired, uninteresting
and unbelievable.
The Bottom Line: Blackhat is the cinematic
equivalent of standing over your company’s IT person as they methodically tap,
click and navigate their way through your computer’s problem du jour. You follow for a few seconds, get completely
lost and suddenly a rousing game of smartphone Subway Surfers sounds like a
more compelling option… Heat, The
Insider, Collateral, Last of the Mohicans - director Michael Mann has brought
us some powder keg moving pictures (some
of my favorites); so here I stand/sit disappointingly telling you that this time he
has delivered a downright dud. A formulaically
flat, disjointed, chemistry-free and uncompelling flick about computer hacking,
cybercrime and the digital age – an unintentionally laughable film that follows
a collaborative group of globe-hopping digital do-gooders following a narratively
anorexic and coaxialy confusing bread crumb trail to the bad guys… We’re treated to a few scant scenes of manic
Mann-in-action that give the movie a fleeting crackle but nothing ever truly
pops…ever. Thinly scripted, lazily acted
and poorly executed – Chris Hemsworth may shine as the Avenger’s God of Thunder,
but here he’s reduced to the mighty bore.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang and John Ortiz
Directed
by: Michael Mann
(Heat, Collateral, The Insider and Last of the Mohicans)
Rated: R (for violence and some language)
Running
time: 133 minutes
Studio description: Set within the world of global
cybercrime, Legendary's Blackhat follows a furloughed convict and his American
and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago
to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
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