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My 2 cents

posted 8 years ago by robobalboa
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I think the worst thing a film can be is boring. It can have a misjudged performance, dialogue that doesn't stick with you, bland direction, but being boring is the worst sin and that's what this film was.

And as much as I like Hemsworth as Thor, I couldn't buy him as a genius coder / hacker / detective / bad ass all at the same time.

Maybe this is a preconceived notion, but he had to be the most fit and well adept at hand to hand combat computer hacker to walk the planet.

Mann can do great shootouts and action, but love scenes, flirtatious dialogue, exposition, and in this film, casting were all pretty bad.

The scene when they giver to recover a hard drive in the power plant. They very clearly say, don't let your tempurature go above 104 and if you go down you'll be left there because the other cant take you back for their safety.
What happens, someone's temp goes to 105, they fall down and ... the other two guys pick him up and they all get out alive. Like okay.
And Hemsworth's temp is at 104 the whole time and swinging an axe doesn't exert him enough to raise his temperature even 1 degree, but one dude who is just walking passed out?

It almost felt like the woman should have been the hacker and Hemsworth should have been the US Marshal sent to keep an eye on her? Like if you want Hemsworth to kick ass, fine, he's good at that, but I cannot believe that he's a genius from MIT who can also stab a hit man in the chest twenty times in thirty seconds.

[–] wmeyerson-119-935702 8 years ago

I think you need to take the entire film with (more than) a grain of salt because Mann publicly disowned the theatrical version completely at a film festival showing all of his movies. In addition, He screened HIS Director's cut of the film. I bought the disc but immediately returned it for this very reason. Now I am waiting for a Director's cut to be released on disc, which may or may not happen. I surely hope this does occur.

[–] naples-884-346409 8 years ago

Mann publicly disowned the theatrical version completely at a film festival showing all of his movies. In addition, He screened HIS Director's cut of the film.

He didn't "disown" this film in any way.

He had final cut.

It was his idea to move the reactor scene before release.

I read, that his DC changed this again to like it was before.

And that he was still working on it.

I would like to see a new version.

[–] wmeyerson-119-935702 8 years ago

Blackhat (2015)

Michael Mann has since disowned the theatrical release. On February 2016, Mann screened his director's cut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which hosted screenings of his directorial work.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2717822/trivia?item=tr2799752

[–] wmeyerson-119-935702 8 years ago

To be clear, "publicly disowned" is the exact phrase he used. I just posted the public screening at BAM (The Brooklyn Academy of Music). As I wrote before, you can read it right now in the "TRIVIA" section for this film. I agree wirh you totally about seeing a new version.

[–] wmeyerson-119-935702 8 years ago

My bad: he said "disowned", not "publicly disowned" (although a screening at BAM is pretty public!).

[–] robobalboa 8 years ago

Even if his DC was longer, moved scenes around, etc, I just cannot fathom how you come up with Hemsworth as a badass killer, an MIT computer genius, a hacker, and a detective.

for a believable character, one who the audience has to theoretically be worried about in dangerous situations, it's lazy story telling to say

"this guy has the exact set of skills he will need to get out of danger. he didn't really need any training but he's good with a computer so he can also do krav maga, be an intuitive detective, a romantic interest for one half of the women represented onscreen, and also a macgyver when it comes to creating body armor."

Like, what?

and even if there is a deleted scene that some how explained all that, it'd still be a boring, bland, movie that frankly wasted a lot of time in a lot of ways.

[–] wmeyerson-119-935702 8 years ago

In the "GOOFS" section, under the ones made by a character, someone correctly said Carol (Barrett, played by Viola Davis) thanked Henry Pollack (played by John Ortiz) at the end of a phone call by saying "thanks Stanley". She was obviously thinking of the terrific director Sydney Pollack, and got the names mixed up.