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Why so much hype?

the audience applauded

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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.

So this hacker is in pris for... well, hacking and is promptly released on licence as he's the only one who can possibly solve whatever this crisis is. Almost instantly he turns into an action hero secret agent type who's proficient with weaponry - and that's it in a nutshell.

No offense but the movie is so terrible. I really had a high hope for this one because Chris Harmsworth was in it. I thought yeah, it'd be a great movie because he's in it. But it's just another big disappointment. I tried to be patient and kept watching to the nearly ending. When it came to last 30 mins, I couldn't keep watching to the end. Maybe I'm so stupid, so, I didn't get the meaning. I was blindly watching for the whole time. When I stopped watching, I was glad that I stopped. Watching this film was just waste of time and money. Thus, yes, it makes one of the movies that I couldn't finished because it's too boring.

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.