Review of Blackhat (2015) by Scrawnypunk — 13 Feb 2015

Awful. I love Michael Mann movies, but this was just terrible. I will summarize as follows - hunky computer geek with insane personal combat skills (???) catches an international cyberterrorist and walks away with enough money to live lavishly forever with his new, hot girlfriend. With that being said, there is a gunfight or two and NOBODY stages a gunfight like Michael Mann. I mean no one...that was a great scene. The rest of the movie? Meh...

Here's the deal - the plot is absolutely braindead. The plot twist (spoiler) is that the earlier hacks are a test run to destroy some tin mines and make a killing on the futures market. BUT...the hacker can apparently manipulate future markets anyway (that's how he got his front money), so why bother with the Tin scheme? Why not just do that Chicago Mercantile Exchange hack over and over again? Because Thor needs to kick some ass, that's why. I guess. I dunno. Just seems like the "surprise" is nothing more than a repeat of the beginning of the movie.

Very disappointing. I suspect Mr. Mann's next one will be great. For every Heat, he makes an Ali. For every Collateral he makes a Blackhat.