Blackhat

Director: Michael Mann

2015 / 133min / DCP

Mann brings his rigorous, research-driven procedural approach, his gift for rattlingly immediate action set pieces, and his rugged romanticism to a distinctly digital age story of computer warfare and globe-trotting skullduggery, starring Chris Hemsworth as an imprisoned anti-establishment hacker who the Feds put back on the streets to assist them in tracking down a mysterious and nefarious cybercriminal. Aiding him on the assignment are FBI agent Viola Davis, and Tang as a networking engineer working for the Chinese army, who slips into a smoldering affair with Hemsworth’s character. A film rich with the textures of both the online ether and the flesh-and-blood world.