The Ugly: Blackhat (2015)
Michael Mann, a director I otherwise revere, tried to take his considerable talents to the hacker genre with Blackhat. Known for gritty crime thrillers like Heat, Collateral, and Public Enemies, Mann attempts to digitize that formula and missed the mark by a pretty considerable margin.
Much like Swordfish, the movie asks the audience to believe that the best hacker in the world is also simultaneously the fittest guy ever. In Mann’s film, that guy is Chris Hemsworth (you know, Thor), who is in prison for hacking. However, he gets released to help track down a hacker terrorist who has used a Stuxnet-like program to explode a nuclear power plant. The movie is mystifyingly long (133 minutes), and you really feel it.
