Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Cert: 15 cert
Director: Michael Mann
Screen writer: Morgan Davis Foehl
Starring: Chris Hemsworth , Leehom Wang , Wei Tang , Viola Davis , Holt McCallany , Andy On , Ritchie Coster , Christian Borle , John Ortiz , Yorick van Wageningen , Tyson Chak , Brandon Molale , Danny Burstein , Archie Kao , Abhi Sinha
Running time: 133 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A man and woman kiss passionately (pretty brief), the scene cuts after and sex is possibly and briefly implied, but they are both clothed and nothing explicit is shown on-screen. The scene is around 20 seconds long and nothing explicit is shown to the audience
Violence & Gore: Non-graphic violence. - Some explicit violence. - Violent acts shown in a realistic manner, with detail, blood and tissue damage. - Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand use, with blood and some detail shown. - Occasional gory or grotesque images
Profanity: Very infrequent use of "f--k", only around 2-3 uses. Some uses of other small language (son of a bitch, shit)
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Few scene in get intense
Story: Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in factory in China. This opportunity will reunite him with an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life.
Likes : I see alot of review on this film being good by just because they are being based off because its a Michael Mann's film, which im not going to do here has this is by far not the greatest film ive sat through as there is a few flaws but one big flaw that lets this film down which i will explain further on.
As for a what i would call a thriller type drama film, its not bad in place's, it has the Miami vice feel to it the acting is pretty solid although i wasn't really feeling Chris Hemsworth as a world class hacker, he acting is good but he didn't come over in the film as a tech-nerd able to hack any computer in the world as some scene kind of made the character look dumb weather that was down to bad script writing for the character not sure but just wasn't feeling him in this role, although the action scene he shine more in the film.Wei Tang put in a great performance as the co-star of the film although the love scene felt a little forced.
The one thing i did notice with this film is that Michael Mann did do a good job of depicting the real life of network engineers and computer scientists in this movie. Commands entered on screen followed conventional Unix command line format and were syntactically correct. You could tell Mann had done his research and hired true computing consultants in the writing of the script sadly this was that is good about this film.
Dislikes : For a film that is 2 half hours long should have been more fast pace then this, because 2 hours felt like the film that going on 8 hours it just feel to long for this type of film. , with no balance in the film to keep it flowing steady between the slow moment the action scene that were few & fat between in this movie your find yourself struggling or trying stay interested in it. This sadly is why this film is boring, To be brutally honest the story concept is good but only to be let down by its pacing which is a shame because this could have been a great film.
Overall : Slow & boring, story concept is good, poor pace not enough action & intense moment to keep you interested, not a film i would recommend if you tired.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.2 out of 10 for story
Screen writer: Morgan Davis Foehl
Starring: Chris Hemsworth , Leehom Wang , Wei Tang , Viola Davis , Holt McCallany , Andy On , Ritchie Coster , Christian Borle , John Ortiz , Yorick van Wageningen , Tyson Chak , Brandon Molale , Danny Burstein , Archie Kao , Abhi Sinha
Running time: 133 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A man and woman kiss passionately (pretty brief), the scene cuts after and sex is possibly and briefly implied, but they are both clothed and nothing explicit is shown on-screen. The scene is around 20 seconds long and nothing explicit is shown to the audience
Violence & Gore: Non-graphic violence. - Some explicit violence. - Violent acts shown in a realistic manner, with detail, blood and tissue damage. - Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand use, with blood and some detail shown. - Occasional gory or grotesque images
Profanity: Very infrequent use of "f--k", only around 2-3 uses. Some uses of other small language (son of a bitch, shit)
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: Few scene in get intense
Story: Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in factory in China. This opportunity will reunite him with an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life.
Likes : I see alot of review on this film being good by just because they are being based off because its a Michael Mann's film, which im not going to do here has this is by far not the greatest film ive sat through as there is a few flaws but one big flaw that lets this film down which i will explain further on.
As for a what i would call a thriller type drama film, its not bad in place's, it has the Miami vice feel to it the acting is pretty solid although i wasn't really feeling Chris Hemsworth as a world class hacker, he acting is good but he didn't come over in the film as a tech-nerd able to hack any computer in the world as some scene kind of made the character look dumb weather that was down to bad script writing for the character not sure but just wasn't feeling him in this role, although the action scene he shine more in the film.Wei Tang put in a great performance as the co-star of the film although the love scene felt a little forced.
The one thing i did notice with this film is that Michael Mann did do a good job of depicting the real life of network engineers and computer scientists in this movie. Commands entered on screen followed conventional Unix command line format and were syntactically correct. You could tell Mann had done his research and hired true computing consultants in the writing of the script sadly this was that is good about this film.
Dislikes : For a film that is 2 half hours long should have been more fast pace then this, because 2 hours felt like the film that going on 8 hours it just feel to long for this type of film. , with no balance in the film to keep it flowing steady between the slow moment the action scene that were few & fat between in this movie your find yourself struggling or trying stay interested in it. This sadly is why this film is boring, To be brutally honest the story concept is good but only to be let down by its pacing which is a shame because this could have been a great film.
Overall : Slow & boring, story concept is good, poor pace not enough action & intense moment to keep you interested, not a film i would recommend if you tired.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.2 out of 10 for story
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