One more failed attempt to make an exciting movie about hacking. (The real-life Sony debacle was more entertaining and even dramatic, because it was all about people. Here, it's all about more mundane things. Much more mundane.) Chris Hemsworth (Thor!) plays the handsome hunk who must be retrieved from prison in order to track down the criminals who are (mis)using the very code he wrote while just a mischievous collegian. In consideration of the international box office, his co-writer was a Chinese man (with a hot sister) who's now working the case for his nation's government. Cue up the exotic locales and violent gun battles, because nobody wants to watch a bad guy sitting in front of a laptop in his underwear. Director Michael Mann still knows how to take a pretty picture, especially gently moving longshots. And golly if he doesn't do his darnedest to make hacking visually interesting, zooming in on microchips to show malware working as mobilized squares of light. But his closeup work on the characters themselves is shaky, perhaps in the hope that we won't notice they're made of cardboard. (2015) — Matthew Lickona
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