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Blackhat

2015
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 13m
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. (imdb)
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Blackhat

2015
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 13m
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Rated 13 Jun 2015
35
19th
I have fond memories of Thief and Manhunter, but otherwise I don't know why I bother with Michael Mann. Blackhat is a glossy action fantasy interchangeable with many of its ilk (Korean and Hong Kong thrillers, and Americans like Liman, Greengrass, Soderbergh etc). The characters are paper dolls: Everyone is gorgeous, tough as nails and talks fast, and the text is utterly contrived and formulaic. To me, there is no grit to this kind of cinema, much less believability.
Rated 15 Jan 2015
30
17th
About as exciting as watching me type up this review would be -- although slightly more violent, probably -- Blackhat is a film that fails at every turn. It wants to make us care about what happens, but can't. It wants to thrill us by taking us into the world of cyberterrorism, but is often so stupid and predictable that it can't succeed. It tacks on a horrible romantic subplot and plays for about 40 minutes too long. Blackhat is a dud.
Rated 18 May 2015
25
6th
What've you done Mann???
Rated 30 May 2015
39
30th
Not particularly good. A large proportion of the shots look like they were produced with a $300 camcorder from Costco, with the framerate set way too high. Bizarre casting choices, and the shoe-horned love plot is unwelcome. Mediocre film.
Rated 05 May 2015
20
22nd
Terrible cyberthriller that pushes the usual "computers is scary" line beloved of Hollywood folks who seem to have spent the last 20 years living in a technological vacuum.
Rated 22 Feb 2015
75
69th
I don't care if this ain't a realistic hacker movie. I really liked it. Might be fan talk here, but the style was amazing once again. The script isn't the best, true, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. If you manage to overlook some flaws here and there and just enjoy the ride, this might be something for you.
Rated 24 Jan 2015
30
3rd
Absolutely terrible. The sound design is atrocious, the script is ridiculous and lacks some much needed self-awareness, and visually this movie is just completely broken. Any redeeming qualities this movie might have are hard to find, I sure didn't see many. The action is shot like a parody of an 80's police drama, the romance is hilariously unnecessary, the characters are shells of caricatures of actual characters, and everything is doused in an ever-present, overly melodramatic soundtrack.
Rated 02 Dec 2016
28
9th
When it opened with 5 mins of cgi microchips and circuit boards like a 90s technothriller i knew what i was in for. A slow, slow zeroenergy movie. What i didn't expect was for the plot to include NSA agents mindlessly downloading harmful attachments and bank workers to gladly plug foreign flash drives into their computers... Cmon Mann...how out of touch are you? The direction frequently descends to the quality of a YouTube video
Rated 21 Jun 2015
50
49th
Pathetic computer graphics. Too much annoying foreign language without English subtitles. Apparently made for people who speak Chinese, English and Indonesian. Highly improbable but somewhat entertaining. Chris Hemsworth was mostly good & charismatic. I liked Viola Davis. The childlike Wei Tang offers little except a bad accent. Their love affair was unconvincing. Excellent locations. Some good music & action. A few good tense moments. Many potholes & flaws, but some of it was worth watching.
Rated 17 Jan 2015
65
31st
Far from bad, but never reaches above that "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" level for me. Aside from some silly lines and wonky situations here and there, the story & performances are fine (though I could have done without the unexplored sub-sub-sub-story of "character whose only motivation is that their spouse died on 9/11"). Gunfights were good, more of those may have helped. Visual effects were quite good. Some sloppy editing. Still don't know why the love story happened. Bottom line, inoffensive.
Rated 14 Jun 2015
35
9th
blah
Rated 17 Jan 2015
55
19th
Absolutely silly cyber-terror story with an unbelievable lead performance from Hemsworth and paper-thin supporting characters. Watchable for me despite the bad qualities because it is still a Michael Mann product with his strengths as a visual storyteller visible whenever action set-pieces kick in.
Rated 09 Apr 2015
20
7th
Not good. In fact, pretty horrible. The characters are unoriginal and uninteresting and so is the plot. The characters fit into boring archetypes as the plot moves nowhere at a slow as hell pace. Also the direction is really poor. I should have skipped this.
Rated 18 Jan 2015
40
35th
What also doesn't work in Blackhat's favor is its bullet-riddled, stab-'em-in-the-throat bloodiness. Its profanities. Its sexual stuff. And the too-breezy way it plays around with what's right and wrong, legal and illegal, white and black. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 07 Apr 2015
60
40th
solid but uninspired. props for authenticity with devices, consoles and commands. however, having jason bourne's omnipotent twin brother as a lead character doesn't exactly further that agenda. some scenes look irritatingly cheap for a mann movie, although that might be due to the weird frame rate. and what's with that ridiculous amount of close-ups? i don't know...it feels like it's trying to stand out, yet everything about this movie screams "routine". you decide whether that's enough for you.
Rated 31 Jul 2015
39
14th
The only thing that Blackhat does for me, is wonder how it is possible that some, very rare, scenes worked really well, but that just one second later the quality drops completely. I just didn't get this one. 39/100.
Rated 22 May 2015
63
39th
The only notably good part is that it's set in China and Malaysia, which is pretty unusual for western films. The bad: questionable casting, a lot of bad camerawork, many unintentionally funny scenes, and a very abrupt ending. The story isn't all that intriguing, either, and the hacking scenes are either dull or dumb. This movie's NSA has a program that will remotely un-corrupt a totally-corrupted hard drive for you.
Rated 27 Jun 2015
34
15th
mann at his cheapest.
Rated 11 Sep 2015
58
56th
Perhaps no filmmaker besides Olivier Assayas has come closer to defining a film aesthetic of late capitalism better than the Mann of this and Miami Vice, and here especially the form fits the content to the point that the latter is rendered almost redundant. The difference between this and Boarding Gate or Demonlover though is that Mann, being the essentially classical genre filmmaker he is, is not able to meaningfully transcend or comment upon the eerie, sleek surfaces of the world he depicts.
Rated 16 Sep 2015
7
94th
another tense (or rather, present-tense), desperately romantic genre film about individuals struggling for autonomy and connection in an increasingly depersonalised, institutionalised digital world. even moreso than MIAMI VICE, it's committed to communicating a grid of themes and emotions through stormy expressionist images pushed to abstraction and sensory overload, investing the characters with so much physicality, sensuality and symbolic heft that their (sometimes cringy) words barely matter.
Rated 24 Jan 2015
2
59th
Extreme Close-up: The Movie. Joking aside, Blackhat is a bit of a mixed bag. It is not particularly balanced and Mann basically isn't on top of his game anymore, like he was with Heat. The two shouldn't even be compared, basically. I however did enjoy this film and its accurate depiction of hacking. The script is so so, acting is fine and direction is mostly adequate, apart from the annoying photography here and there. I did absolutely loathe the motion smoothing, which made it look like 30+ fps
Rated 20 Sep 2015
55
13th
Corny and boring.
Rated 03 Jun 2021
20
2nd
This is the third movie I've ever left intentionally unfinished - at the 43 minute mark. Hemsworth and Tang have non-hyperbolically the worst on-screen chemistry I've ever seen. Meathead hackerman-lead decides to disclose his identity to a guy they are trying to track, fistfight ensues and he ends up smooching with his friend's sister on the rooftop and I was done. No. I don't owe this movie my time.
Rated 29 Apr 2016
77
74th
Blackhat has flaws, a few of them and most suffering from what seems to be budgetary issues, that or picking the wrong people to do certain things. The movie can get slow at parts and the characters along with emotional scenes can induce a bit of cringe, the hacking isn't entirely realistic but you know what? I enjoyed some scenes quite a lot, especially the ones of Chris Hemsworth fucking people up. It is a very raw movie, and I can understand the hate but I personally enjoyed it.
Rated 20 Feb 2023
35
21st
Best thing about the movie, so far as I can tell, is that it's set in an alternate universe where MIT grads have sex appeal. Otherwise unwatchable.
Rated 30 Oct 2016
60
58th
ger; [blackhat]; ein hacker wird aus dem gefängnis geholt, als jemand eine atomanlage und eine börse manipuliert - damit der hacker die amerikaner und chinesen gegen die bedrohung unterstützt.;
Rated 02 Jul 2015
60
38th
Unexciting but still a tad better than Mann's two previous efforts with digital.
Rated 01 May 2015
76
82nd
Viola Davis = badass I actually expected less from Michael Mann. I don't know why, exactly...because of Public Enemies maybe... But, I mean, the music alone was pretty awesome. And after a somewhat undercooked first half the movie gets more Mannish by the minute. :) Hemsworth's performance seemed a little uninspired, though.
Rated 05 Jul 2016
40
7th
With several scenes of hammering code, the atrocious CGI computer inner workings, and every console bleeping and blooping, you would not be mistaken for thinking you were watching 1995's Hackers or The Lawnmower Man. This is unacceptable in 2015. There has to be a better way to make a film about computer terrorism without being so ham-fisted and corny. Michael Mann's struggles continue.
Rated 02 Sep 2015
16
22nd
I'm not going to lie, I only watched this movie because I wanted to see Thor hacking things while shirtless. Even with this superficial and rather low standard, I was given maybe one scene that was worth my time, and then I threw my hands up and tried to digest the mind-numbing plot of this poorly produced dud of a film. Unfortunately, even that was too much for me and I ended up skipping through the last half hour so as to save myself from anymore distress. AVOID THIS.
Rated 23 Apr 2016
70
12th
I guess I forgot to rank this movie a little while back. Blackhat suffers from a slow story and pacing. Hemsworth was good and the supporting cast is also really great. I'm a sucker for Michael Mann for some reason, so it's unfortunate that this is so mundane. There are movies far worse than this, but it's embarassingly passable. I hope Mann can keep his career.
Rated 04 Jun 2015
28
2nd
Mann's latter output has become nothing but style, and while it remains effective on that level, it's like reading a sentence that contains no information. His digital photography calls attention to itself, coming in close, hopping and shifting, the action livened up with shots that trace the innards of computers, surveying them like city streets or tunnels. Mann is just as talented and frustrating as ever, giving the world-class treatment to scripts that trade in gunfights and macho shop talk.
Rated 15 Jun 2015
4
63rd
While the premise and promotion made Blackhat sound something out of a Steven Seagal vehicle it surprises by how somber and restrained it actually is; or maybe it shouldn't have been, given Mann's history, just as it shouldn't be surprising how downright pretty it can look at times.
Rated 25 Apr 2015
38
20th
Bad, long, boring, ugly, silly, crappy, failing, unoriginal disappointment.
Rated 06 Aug 2017
41
17th
Hemsworth is a good actor... Trapped in a stupid movie with zero concept of reality, incongruous with its gritty aesthetic.
Rated 03 Jul 2015
70
57th
Genuinely don't understand the hatred for this film. Felt real, emotional, and tense. Best Michael Mann film since Collateral, he should direct every shootout scene.
Rated 12 May 2015
45
31st
Not a bad thriller, considering the current lack of Holywood's interest in this genre. Something about it reminds me of Hong Kong thrillers, and I hope it isn't because of couple of chinese actors in it.
Rated 17 May 2016
70
19th
(...) Ein bisschen wirkt Blackhat so, als ob Mann das Beste aus seinen früheren Filmen verquirlt und etwas aufpoliert hätte: Leere nächtliche Strassen, denen etwas Existentielles anhaftet, Skylines, Cops und Gangster inmitten post-industrieller Landschaften. Hier wird die reale Welt von der virtuellen geschluckt - aber welche Folgen hat das für den Menschen?(...)
Rated 17 Jan 2015
70
41st
When it's being a cyber-thriller, it's tense and interesting. Mann delivers another street shootout which is not quite Heat but it's great. In fact, the shootouts are a highlight with wonderful music backing them. The soundtrack as a whole is great. It loses its way at the end though, with the way everything becomes a little too convenient and unbelievable. Why can a huge group not see the guns? Shouldn't have made Hemsworth a super badass at everything. Weak writing at times as well.
Rated 19 Jan 2015
60
50th
It's not the best script, but Michael Mann does a great job making us forget that... most of the time. He provides the most raw and intense shootout scene I've seen in a long time.
Rated 20 Jan 2015
65
38th
Great action, beautiful style, crummy lead, boring computer scenes, and uneasy pacing. A forgettable work by a great director.
Rated 13 Sep 2015
25
7th
Perhaps audiences and critics have finally cottoned on to the general hackiness of this filmmaker's combination of music video aesthetics and ponderous self-seriousness (has any Mann film ever contained anything resembling a joke?). If so, it's taken at least twenty years longer than should have been necessary. Odd narrative jumps suggest an attempt to cobble things together in post-production. Protagonist's opening scene: in prison reading Foucault; his shelf has copies of Lyotard and Derrida.
Rated 13 May 2017
64
21st
This movie at times made me black out. It was just so choppy, it was hard to follow. I also just can't see beefcake Chris Hemsworth as this awesome computer geek hacker. It just didn't make any sense. I thought Wei Tang was not only beautiful, but an excellent actress throughout this film. I'm not exactly sure why Viola Davis was in this, she seems like she should be in better movies than this. I like movies about computers and hacking (even the movie the Net!)...
Rated 21 Apr 2015
85
92nd
Stylish thriller for the Assange/Snowden era with a sensibility borrowed from HK action flicks. Really cool.
Rated 03 Aug 2015
40
1st
Chris Hemsworth is a good actor (I loved him in "Rush"), but the dialogue and writing was so bad in this. The first 30 minutes was exciting, but it dragged on and on after that. For a movie that's 2h 15m long, character development could have been a million times better, but it wasn't; there were many moments lacking credibility, like whenever Hemsworth's character cried out every time an acquaintances got killed, and his relationship with the Wei Tang's character. Terrible, just terrible.
Rated 21 Sep 2015
84
14th
1354: weak ending!
Rated 22 Sep 2016
84
71st
As good as Heat, I'm confused why it's so panned. Visuals are stunning, the plot is intricate and suspenseful, although some may consider it convoluted and confusing. Not anywhere near as incoherent as Miami Vice however.
Rated 01 Feb 2017
40
10th
Forgettable crap.
Rated 08 May 2015
50
77th
Blackhat (2015) floats around as if it's all high. Which is what the viewer should be as mostly what we're watching are people sitting on their computers typing codes. The moments of violence are poetically brutal, as well as ridiculously corny! In many ways it's a cool movie. A hacking action! But it tackles a subject matter which is incredibly dull regardless of what international flavor, artistic tweaking and random crime they insert around the computer hacking.
Rated 24 May 2015
2
7th
Unwatchable rubbish in the form of tiresome monologues. Boring beyond all description.
Rated 02 May 2015
40
10th
If you like bland characters and meandering, semi-interesting hacktion stories... go for it!
Rated 28 Mar 2015
70
60th
I liked it. Reasonably good action, some good old gunfights, a few sinister bad guys, and a pretty girl. What's not to like? Overall I think it's a pretty good Michael Mann film, looks great, Hong Kong shines up real nice for the movies.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
71
2nd
"Blackhat" is just barely over two hours long, but it feels like it takes three hours to complete it. The plot is fairly weak, the characters aren't particularly interesting and the pacing could use some work. I hate to say it but I'm not sure if this director was the right mann for the job.
Rated 12 Apr 2015
20
0th
I only enjoyed watching sexy Wei Tang. It is not cyberpunk so it is NOT a good hacker movie disappointed.
Rated 20 May 2015
20
11th
I don't like Michael Mann's style, and this is probably my least favorite of his films. It is long, bland and boring. The emotional scenes are cringe worthy and the ending is insanely flat.
Rated 08 Sep 2015
1
0th
This is the guy who did Heat, Thief and Collateral. Unfortunately, if this is the best Mann has to offer, I fear it is only going to get worse as time goes on. Blackhat is underdeveloped, unrealistic, and filmed terribly. The action is short, rare and very lame while the scenes that are attempting to explain what the hell is going on are so long and boring that it creates a very uneven film that borders to the unwatchable.
Rated 14 Jan 2018
55
20th
It's not that this movie is terrible, it's just that it's just so underwhelming. I love Michael Mann's filming style and suits certain types of films and because it's not a perfect fit for this film, the best parts of the film were when we are not completely following the narrative. It's also not Chris Hemsworth's best outing, to say the least, but it was refreshing to see some Asian leads in the film.
Rated 12 Dec 2016
46
17th
2016-12-10
Rated 26 Jun 2015
1
8th
Seriously, what was this that I just saw!? How Michael Mann could sign off on this, is beyond me. The quality of almost every aspect of the movie is so low, that this could have been a home made movie project gone okay. I mean, what is up with the despicable dubbing of voices, and dialogue worthy of almost no school play. The only thing Mann'ish, is some of the choices in music, but even though the music was good, the scenes it was supposed to support, was uninspired. *Beyond Bad
Rated 05 Mar 2017
50
15th
2016/01/17
Rated 22 Jan 2015
85
77th
22 Ocak 2015 & Stilize olmamaya calisirken yarattigi asiri stilize hal olaganustu bir seyirlik sunuyor. Uzun zamandir bir hollywood aksiyon filminden memnun ayrilmamistim.
Rated 30 Jun 2015
55
8th
What a crock of slog--Michael Mann's undeniable skill rescues this from an even more dismal rating.
Rated 01 Jun 2015
30
15th
Meh all the way.
Rated 01 Dec 2015
34
37th
Looks and sounds like a vintage Mann film (the colors, the aerial cityscapes, the violence, the score) but, unfortunately the script and acting are quite underwhelming.
Rated 16 Jan 2015
45
22nd
Very bad screenplay but still Mann manages to create his unique world and the action scenes are very impressive, like the real recordings of witnesses.
Rated 21 Aug 2015
31
19th
Not terrible--at least until the shoot-'em-up sequences start.
Rated 11 Nov 2016
65
29th
Not as bad as some critics and the imdb rating suggest it is, but als not the hidden masterpiece others says it is. That's mostly because I never been the biggest fan of Mann's style. It's also hurt too much by bad acting
Rated 30 Dec 2023
81
78th
(Archived) A return to form for Michael Mann for me. Very stylish with superb action scenes and great camera work; I also think Chris Hemsworth really shines as Hathaway. But, the dialogue is pretty bad and corny, and the story just gets so convoluted and hard to follow, but not in a semi-good way like Miami Vice, but in a way where I kind of don't care. I also found there was a lack of chemistry between Chris Hemsworth and Tang Wei. But saying that, I loved the style, and it is pretty decent.
Rated 15 Mar 2021
88
80th
Keep sleeping Mann haters. Since everyone in Miami Vice lives life with no consequences I was amazed at how many main characters die here
Rated 24 Jul 2021
65
42nd
I admire the attempt at a cybercrime drama, and you can tell there was at least some technical consultation, but they're inherently not heists you can present in blockbuster form, really. Pretty terrible script in all the other aspects too, though engaging in a trashy way. Tose nighttime city shots, especially in the Hong Kong section...*chef's kiss*
Rated 08 Mar 2022
73
46th
I don't mind my cyber-thrillers, particularly since I have no computer smarts, so all the nerd talk in this goes over my head and I accept it, without getting critical. This seems like a fairly focused film (aside from one pointless romance), and it utilises a good sense of showing the vast real world of this trail and the flat fake digital world, where a hacker enemy (like here) can basically be unheard and unseen (though likely not unsmelled).
Rated 27 Mar 2022
37
15th
Stop saying RAT, holy shit, even Ratatouille didn't say rat half as much. The romance subplot is so awful and shouldn't be in the movie but takes up an inordinate amount of time. There are a couple of decent shootouts but they aren't up to Mann's standard of quality. Characters who are supposed to die stand out in the open instead of taking cover for no reason, and bullets are somehow able to punch through both ends of a steel shipping container but not penetrate a thin sidewalk advertisement
Rated 18 Mar 2023
78
55th
A casual workout for Mann, but the first half is as flat out enjoyable as his best work; sharp and witty writing is well-served by Hemsworth’s amusing casting as musclebound computer nerd (!). Given Hemsworth’s action credentials, the loss of steam once the switch is made to all-out action is odd; there are some impressive set pieces (especially that car explosion), but the action has a mechanical and repetitive feel, and the hideous digital photography makes the film oppressively ugly at times.
Rated 17 Jun 2023
9
6th
A poor film, derivative, nothing new
Rated 02 Aug 2023
50
14th
I was out on this pretty early, with the effects-laden drop into the computer minutia and the block of wood better known as Chris Hemsworth. On top of that, the script is very poor. I had no idea what these people were doing most of the time, and am even unclear as to why the sister was there at all, except to be a love interest. Some of the night scenes are nice to look at and the film did keep things moving. I won't be revisiting this.
Rated 06 Aug 2023
45
27th
All the usual Michael Mann trademarks (and there’s a lot) fall incredibly flat. Maybe becuse the script is so lousy or because Chris Hemsworth’s character is so insanely uncool. Some good action in the second half.

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