Total Film
It's no Heat but the niggles are easily forgiven given the virtuosity on show and the mood oozing from every frame. No one shoots faces, architecture and gunfights like Mann.
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Blackhat
Michael Mann hacker thriller starring Chris Hemsworth as a convict asked to help with an investigation targeting a high-risk networking criminal - an endeavour that will take him and his American and Chinese partners from Chicago to Jakarta. Co-starring Oscar-nominee Viola Davis (The Help).
2015Rating: MA15+, Strong violence133 minsUSA,
ActionDramaMysteryThriller
- Director:
- Michael Mann ('Heat', 'The Insider', 'Collateral', 'The Last of the Mohicans')
- Writer:
- Michael MannMorgan Davis Foehl
- Cast:
- Chris HemsworthViola DavisWei TangWilliam MapotherJohn OrtizRitchie Coster
Blackhat / Reviews
The Guardian
A square-jawed, furrowed-browed, altogether joyless film, with a hero to match ...
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Los Angeles Times
Technology may have changed, cyber-crime may be all the rage, but the narrative song remains the same in films like this, and it's a tune this director knows by heart.
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Empire Magazine
A competent procedural rather than the ground-breaking cybersaga we'd hoped for. But as with Miami Vice, Mann's boundless style does a remarkable job of disguising the lack of substance.
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