Diagonaldi Very well executed

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

kdws3 When i saw this movie for the first time i didn't understand it... the movie seemed surprisingly realistic at times especialy the shooting scenes and other times as it is said in the movie at some point "overwritten" Well now after few yeas i see it as a masterpiece! there is no way Michael Mann can slip... you may think so because he really wants to keep his idiocracies which is part of the artistic expression. Everithing in this movie is well calibrated, the lightning, camera angles, he communicates trough every color and sound, i can see Mann's spirit in every scene :) which is a sign of a true story teller! and Hemsworth did a fantastic job expressing Mann's point of view.

nadinesalakovv Blackhat is only worth watching once, on my second viewing i didn't find it as interesting as when i first streamed it. There are some films that are better on the second viewing (that is subjective) in my book Blackhat isn't one of them. There are some unexpected action scenes (Spoiler: Characters that you didn't expect to get killed off). The overall plot is slightly interesting, but that's about it.

Veronique Nadia When I was watching Blackhat, three separate times I questioned whether sitting through until the end was going to kill brain cells. I asked my brother, who thought the movie was okay, to name one personality trait of the main character. After a long pause, he said only "stoic". That's this movie's biggest problem. There is nothing to endear you to any of the characters. They have faces and job titles, but no stories. There is one part of the movie where two characters sit down and have a real conversation about their personal lives and motivations, but it's the part that makes the least sense. They speak in riddles and clichés. Because the characters are so poorly developed, there's no way to forgive the far-fetched plot. The long, artistic shots that would be the film's best quality are part of what makes it so boring. There's no symbolism or meaning in the visual, it's just supposed to look pretty or something, but at best it made me think "Well, I guess that shot was aesthetically pleasing". I wasn't quite sure. If just you're looking for a fun action movie, this isn't the one. The three or so decent action sequences are nice, but short by contrast to the long, meaningless pretty scenes in between. Even the special effects in this movie are confusing. The "hacking" involved isn't too terrible, they actually refer to long periods of time needed to accomplish things, but you also get weird visual effects of the inner workings of computers, beams of light traveling on tracks. It serves no purpose. It doesn't look good. It's just computer-y. I somehow sat through the whole thing, but I would never recommend this movie to anybody.

Jumbo I really enjoyed this film.I have little to no idea about hacking, but I was able to keep up with the plot and really enjoyed it throughout. Michael Mann is definitely a serious director with loads of slomo sequences of people looking very stern and then having sex very intensely, it could be so stupid but he treads a thin line really well. This film is certainly of a piece with the rest of his work (I haven't seem Ali,), there are some familiar characters and tropes at work here, if you're a fan (I am) it's definitely not a bad thing.Some of the camera-work during the action sequences was really engrossing, he really got right in there and made It feel appropriately brutal and frenetic. I especially love the mixing of wide angle shots and what felt more conventional coverage, really cool, really crafted an atmosphere, And his music is always great, from Tangerine Dream onwards it's been cool!I think Mann is a director who still tries to push things forward, from experimenting with the audio perspective on Public Enemy to Hi-Def cameras on Collateral, I think he tries stuff out and commits which is commendable with so much money behind you, it's easy to not try anything new and then call putting up a Greenscreen the future. For all his experimenting he definitely has got a style which I think I would describe as being the good side of 80's. He reminds me a little of Friedkin, they both used Tangerine Dream!Viola Davis was really cool in this, she has some great delivery of very cutting lines.I never want to like Chris Hemsworth, he's too ripped to be a computer nerd and way too handsome. But I actually didn't question any of that once it got going, despite my want for him to be annoying he's a really likable actor and although at first I thought the accent was gonna be a bit dodgy, once again I went with it (on second thought this could be because he doesn't really say a lot and has a good line in looking moody).I liked the plot. I liked the bad guys! I like that they were awfully nasty but then turned around and seemed to care about their mate who was gonna die. Nice touch!I missed this at the cinema and assumed it was gonna be rubbish because it had a tiny release over here, but it was great! My girlfriend really enjoyed it too, although she couldn't keep up with the hacking stuff and nearly ruined the film asking me questions. That's not a criticism of this film though that's definitely on her.Apparently this isn't for everyone but I don't know why, I thought it was great and sadly overlooked.