Blackhat
Universal Pictures | Release Date: January 16, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
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17
Mixed:
11
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireJames DyerFeb 17, 2015
A competent procedural rather than the ground-breaking cybersaga we’d hoped for. But as with Miami Vice, Mann’s boundless style does a remarkable job of disguising the lack of substance. Read full review
60
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJan 13, 2015
There’s visual thinking everywhere you look in Blackhat, which is great until you realize that it’s bled into a kind of overthinking — the movie is too much of a good thing, an exercise that flattens any potential exhilaration or excitement into the sensation of grading a term paper. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJan 16, 2015
Watching actors tap out code as big buzzing screens of digital data flash on the screen just doesn’t cut it. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFeb 2, 2015
A moody cyber-noir with not much on its mind but looking good, Blackhat is a must-see if you like your dialogue (romantic, dramatic, subtitled Cantonese) peppered with techspeak. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJan 16, 2015
Good enough to make you wish it were better. Read full review
50
The DissolveScott TobiasJan 15, 2015
Though the pacing is lumpy, to say the least, Blackhat occasionally bursts to life when Mann breaks out one of his signature action setpieces, which have the distinct pop of heavy artillery and the immediacy of video. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJan 14, 2015
Occasionally, Mann shows flashes of the sort of springloaded action set pieces he was once hailed for, like a shoot-out during a religious parade. But mostly they just come off as warmed-over parodies from a onetime master aping his own style. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJan 15, 2015
Blackhat is a mess of a movie from Michael Mann, a would-be cyberthriller slowed by stupidity and sabotaged by a stunningly silly subplot. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJan 15, 2015
Unfortunately, Mann’s newest film, Blackhat, fails to connect. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackJan 15, 2015
Blackhat plays a surprisingly flat and ever-flatter cinema texture against the careful roll-out of an elaborate plot. Not only is the pacing deliberate, but Mann often supplies only about 80% of the information needed to understand what is going on in a scene. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanJan 13, 2015
Blackhat can’t decide if it is a grim, realistic story from the trenches or cyberwarfare or a giddy, “who cares if that makes sense?” Bond film. Read full review
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