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BLACKHAT
2015
Director
Michael Mann
Starring
Chris Hemsworth
Tang Wei
Viola Davis
Ritchie Coster
Runtime
133 minutes
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Michael Mann brings his rigorous, research-driven procedural approach, his gift for rattlingly immediate action set pieces, and his rugged romanticism to a distinctly digital story of globe-trotting skullduggery.
One of the most underappreciated films of the 2010s, BLACKHAT stars Chris Hemsworth stars an imprisoned anti-establishment hacker who the Feds put back on the streets to assist them in tracking down a mysterious and nefarious cybercriminal. It’s a film rich with the textures of both the online ether and the flesh-and-blood world, with burnt-out public guardians hopelessly hunting enemies who could be coming from anywhere and the dangers of terrorism equated with the voracious machinations of financial string pullers.
Verging further and further into the hazy nocturnal netherworld familiar from previous Mann movies, it attains a dreamlike languor as the basic landscape of ones and zeroes, good guys and bad, steadily gives way to an atmosphere of layered ambiguity—anonymous digital matter transformed into something achingly fragile, fleeting, and human.
“One could say that this is the most adventurous film made in Hollywood since HEAVEN'S GATE, but what is that compared to calling it Mann's best movie? It's both a culmination and expansion of hundreds of ideas Mann has toyed with since THIEF. But there's something new here: this is a movie about collectives, not individuals, and the most beautiful thing about this movie is watching these characters learn to respect, trust and love each other.” - Neil Bahadur
One of the most underappreciated films of the 2010s, BLACKHAT stars Chris Hemsworth stars an imprisoned anti-establishment hacker who the Feds put back on the streets to assist them in tracking down a mysterious and nefarious cybercriminal. It’s a film rich with the textures of both the online ether and the flesh-and-blood world, with burnt-out public guardians hopelessly hunting enemies who could be coming from anywhere and the dangers of terrorism equated with the voracious machinations of financial string pullers.
Verging further and further into the hazy nocturnal netherworld familiar from previous Mann movies, it attains a dreamlike languor as the basic landscape of ones and zeroes, good guys and bad, steadily gives way to an atmosphere of layered ambiguity—anonymous digital matter transformed into something achingly fragile, fleeting, and human.
“One could say that this is the most adventurous film made in Hollywood since HEAVEN'S GATE, but what is that compared to calling it Mann's best movie? It's both a culmination and expansion of hundreds of ideas Mann has toyed with since THIEF. But there's something new here: this is a movie about collectives, not individuals, and the most beautiful thing about this movie is watching these characters learn to respect, trust and love each other.” - Neil Bahadur