#cyber thriller

Blackhat (2015)

Directed by Michael Mann

Doomsy’s Rating: 85/100

***DIRECTOR’S CUT REVIEW***

The painful silences are like echoes of bitter loneliness against the coldest of worlds. So much love lost, so much humanity found. The digital cinematography of Blackhat is sensuous and enveloping, like a cybernetic fever dream. Some of Mann’s most impressive framing and angling here, not to mention the sheer audacity of a techno thriller not adhering to any conceivable genre narrative whatsoever and trying to test impatient audiences and critics alike. In many ways a spiritual sequel to Miami Vice, where the absolute sadness and emptiness of the world despite an abundance of breadth and beauty overcomes the failed attempts at connection. Aside from some not-so-flattering CGI and an admittedly very miscast Chris Hemsworth, Blackhat is genre filmmaking at its most ethereal, enigmatic and exciting.