Underrated and underappreciated

It's not Heat, but what else measures up to that?! ... Exactly...

I thought Blackhat was solid... Very interesting how Mann incorporated the contemporary methods of hacking into the plot and various scenes... Very cool and with a realism that you don't see in other movies...

I like the movies mood... it's American Chinese connections feel authentic as opposed to false or forced... They are organic to the themes ofnthe movie and the characters, the MIT connection of Chen & Hathaway as basis of their friendship, the global and commercial/financial nature of cyber crime, Lien's attraction to and relationship with Hathaway, etc... The beaurucratic navigating, the way the plot moves from decision to decision, location to location, hack to hack, etc... It jas a rythym to it...

But the most underrated thing about this movie is how it was shot... Mann has finally cracked the digital look that he has been playing with since Collateral and Miami Vice... It's so appropriate here and seemless... It's cinematic without trying to look like film or get in the way of the movie... It feels like a modern cyber movie...

Underrated & misunderstood movie...