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Critic Reviews for Black Hat

It races to a hugely unsatisfying ending that is both completely un-Mann-like and utterly at odds with the story that has led to it

Biast, FlickFilosopher.com

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'Blackhat' is still slick-as-hell, and a rock-solid action thriller

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com

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A terrifically entertaining cyber thriller

Drew Taylor, The Moviefone Blog

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'Black Hat' is probably the best confusing cyberthriller ever made

Joseph Shelton, Bozeman Daily Chronicle

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'Blackhat,' a story about the intersection of bodies and machines, is a spectacular work of unhinged moviemaking

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

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The film’s final third does ramp up the action, shaking loose from any pretence of being realistic, and takes advantage of its exotic setting

Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian

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It lacks both the chemistry and kinetic energy of those earlier films, and what’s more, it looks just plain awful at times

Peter Debruge, Variety

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'Blackhat' is art imitating the perils of cyber-life, and Mann is just the groundbreaking artist to do it

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Michael Mann's cyberthriller fails to click as Chris Hemsworth chases a master criminal with help from Viola Davis and Tang Wei

Joe Neumaier, Daily News America

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It often looks like an old-fashioned McGuffin thriller, in which our fugitive hero and heroine are allowed to run, hand in hand, down the escalator into a subway

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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Michael Mann's new cyber thriller 'Blackhat' is more hackneyed than hacker

Jim Vejvoda, IGN

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The plot is not twisty enough to be surprising or satisfying, the dialogue seems cribbed from an old Radio Shack catalog, and the performances are lifelessly flat

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly

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'Blackhat' are at least matched with material that really does fit extraordinarily with the director’s personal style

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

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'Blackhat' is also one of the most visually unattractive movies I have ever seen

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

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'Blackhat' is a film about cybercrime that is, at first, difficult to follow, and later, perfectly clear and preposterous

Mick LaSalle, SFGate

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Mann's cyber-thriller 'Blackhat' clicks with urgency

Jake Coyle, Yahoo News

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The cybercrime topicality packs less punch than the visceral thrill ride

Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

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Its too little, too late in a style over substance thriller which doesn’t have even enough to offer in the style department to be worthwhile

Joshua Starnes, ComingSoon.net

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'Blackhat' gets hung up by an abysmal script and a trio of miscast actors in the lead roles

Scott Tobias, The Dissolve

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The movie is a mess, but the vision behind it remains as potent and seductive as ever

Peter Suderman, Washington Times

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Its a joyless cyber-thriller

Jonathan Romney, The Guardian

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Its intimate, emotional, vicious: flesh is punctured, blood spilled

Matt Zoller Seitz, Roger Ebert

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The violence is at times hard and unexpected, the attention to firepower provides a soundmix which demands you see this in the cinema

Gary Collinson, Flickering Myth

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There is not a single reason to recommend seeing 'Blackhat'

Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects

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'Blackhat' moves through a series of plot points with a lack of personality that would make a Klingon go

Scott Renshaw, Salt Lake City Weekly

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