Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Blackhat sembra ora un passo indietro e contemporaneamente uno troppo in avanti.
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Michael Mann regresa con una propuesta artísticamente suicida, sosa e inerte hasta lo sorprendente y en ocasiones alarmante por su torpeza general. Un flojísimo thriller encabezado por un pétreo Chris Hemsworth. Decepción general en el regreso de un grande.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: Complaints about narrative clichés — and seriously, a movie is not defined by its clichés, but what it does with them — and visual crutches miss the point; this is not a film about tight plotting or slam-bang action, but about style. Pure, hypnotic, mesmerizing style.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Excerpt: The ongoing struggle to make cyber crime an exciting time at the movies continues with Michael Mann’s Blackhat, a ridiculous mish-mash of genre stereotypes.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: most notable for highlighting the human toll of high stakes hacking in far bloodier terms than Sony recently experienced and a few well executed action scenes.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: That it is cold and unfeeling may be the point, but that doesn’t change what it is.
- [New – 10/29/15] | Hugo Gomes @ http://cinematograficamentefalando.blogs.sapo.pt [Portuguese]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Michael Mann’s ‘Blackhat’ is a film fraught with problems as it tries to tell the story of a Chinese-American collaborative effort to apprehend a cyber-terrorist.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Blackhat is Mann going internationalist, finding the computer age is just as wide open and lawless, replete with shadow-enemies and doppelgangers, as Mann’s wilderness society in Last of the Mohicans (1992) and the mean streets of his neo-noir films.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: This mysteriously misbegotten flick should be a gritty 10-hour miniseries so it would have time to explore its ideas and potentially fascinating characters.
- Oktay Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
- Excerpt: This is little more than The Social Network: Marvel Edition.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: Beautifully shot and a worthy Mann
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Blackhat’ is a dull, drab affair that, while occasionally slick, with a few moments of nice tension, carries little more than that to recommend it. And Chris Hemsworth can’t find a shirt that will stay buttoned anywhere. Poor guy.
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Frank Ochieng @ SF Crowsnest
- Excerpt: Relentlessly broad, stillborn and as annoyingly distracting as unwanted spyware ads embedded in your unprotected hard drive, ‘Blackhat’ is so wooden and unimaginative in its tepid action-packed indifference.
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: An exhilarating Johnnie To-like procedural ripped straight from the headlines yet unceremoniously dumped in a mid-January release and hidden behind a critical embargo, Michael Mann’s Blackhat will likely prove just as divisive as his previous two films, Miami Vice and Public Enemies.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVDTalk
- Excerpt: You have to pity poor Chris Hemsworth, actually. He looks like he’s trying really hard and taking all of this talk of intrigue and data very seriously, but so serious that he appears silly.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Old-hat, an unimaginative take on a cutting-edge subject that comes off both ludicrous and boring.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: James Bond grows a brain but the audience is not buying it.
