Events that in other films would be shown as a boring stroke of keys are instead depicted as hypnotic processes happening under the surface of the visible world. Mann makes tangible the microscopic computer systems that run the world: An extreme close-up of internal wires leading to a motherboard like a vast interconnected highway a computer fan that sounds like a jet engine.
With sharp digital cinematography and unforgettable set pieces, Blackhat explores our changing global relationship to technology. Viola Davis and Holt McClanahan feature as FBI agents who aren’t super happy to have to rely on a notorious criminal. When Hathaway and Chen’s sister (Tang Wei), a networking engineer also helping with the case, fall for each other, it adds an extra wrinkle to an already high stakes situation. While liaising with the FBI investigation, Chen insists on the aid of his old friend Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth, who has never been hotter or cooler), an imprisoned genius hacker. In the film, Chen Dawai (Wang Leehom), a captain in the P.L.A.’s cyber warfare unit, is tasked with getting to the bottom of a computer attack that melts down a nuclear power plant in Hong Kong. It is peak Mann - if you’re not a fan of the Heat director’s work, your mileage may vary. Photo: Frank Connor/Legendary Pictures-Universal PicturesĪ sleek and sexy thriller that makes hacking look extremely cool, Michael Mann’s unfairly maligned Blackhat stands tall as a high mark in digital filmmaking. The twist leads into Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, another two-and-a-half-hour epic currently streaming on Netflix. If you fall hard for it, get pumped - this is only part one. Exploding with hyper-choreographed fight sequences and CG spectacle (not to mention a handful of musical numbers with equal bravura), The Beginning is 159 minutes of mythical excess, going big like only Indian film can, and resting on the muscular shoulders of its hero, the single-name actor Prabhas. The Beginning chronicles the life of Shivudu, an adventurer with superhuman strength who escapes his provincial life by scaling a skyscraper-sized waterfall, aides and romances a rebel warrior named Avanthika, then teams up with her to rescue a kidnapped queen from an evil emperor. In Western terms, this Tollywood production, the most expensive Indian film at the time of its release, is like a biblical epic by way of Marvel Studios, with a little Hamlet and Step Up thrown in for good measure.
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