Overrated

Excellent, a Must See

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I watched this movie and couldn't enjoy it. It lasted very long and some scenes didn't make sense. For example this that bothered me were the dialogue in the restaurant between Hathaway and Lien, the cop killing at least 3 guys with assault rifles without taking cover, the 'you are dead over 40°C' moment and the temperature keeps climbing, the end where he can stop a bullet with magazines and a knife with his scarf, he kills someone with a screwdriver (why no knife) in a crowded area no-one seems to care until they start shooting.

Although I didn't have high expectations going into this film, it still managed to be so disappointing, slow and boring, I couldn't even finish the film to the end. I really didn't care what happened. Some of the main problems for this film is the slow boring pace, the lack of real action, and the absolute wrong casting for this film. Sorry, but Chris Hemsworth is not convincing one bit as a hacker. It's a very generous 6/10 from me.

When I was watching Blackhat, three separate times I questioned whether sitting through until the end was going to kill brain cells. I asked my brother, who thought the movie was okay, to name one personality trait of the main character. After a long pause, he said only "stoic". That's this movie's biggest problem. There is nothing to endear you to any of the characters. They have faces and job titles, but no stories. There is one part of the movie where two characters sit down and have a real conversation about their personal lives and motivations, but it's the part that makes the least sense. They speak in riddles and clichés. Because the characters are so poorly developed, there's no way to forgive the far-fetched plot. The long, artistic shots that would be the film's best quality are part of what makes it so boring. There's no symbolism or meaning in the visual, it's just supposed to look pretty or something, but at best it made me think "Well, I guess that shot was aesthetically pleasing". I wasn't quite sure. If just you're looking for a fun action movie, this isn't the one. The three or so decent action sequences are nice, but short by contrast to the long, meaningless pretty scenes in between. Even the special effects in this movie are confusing. The "hacking" involved isn't too terrible, they actually refer to long periods of time needed to accomplish things, but you also get weird visual effects of the inner workings of computers, beams of light traveling on tracks. It serves no purpose. It doesn't look good. It's just computer-y. I somehow sat through the whole thing, but I would never recommend this movie to anybody.

The plot was good and interesting, the actors been well cast and performed good. The directing was for the first part of the movie good but got clumsy in the end. The only action scene that was good, was the brawl in the restaurant, all others been dreadful, unrealistic and brain dead.