Blackhat | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The film is best in its tangible moments between characters, whether those moments involve realistic violence, intimate romance, or characters brooding in solemn singularity, all of which are dependable tropes in Mann's engaging brand of cinema.

If you're not a hardcore Mann fan (would the proper portmanteau of "Mann" and "devotee" be "Mannatee"?), it's entirely possible you might not even notice the differences, but it feels like a sleeker and more organic narrative in this incarnation.

Mann can stage a heart pounding action scene, and pulls off a couple of them here that spice things up when the movie starts to run a bit slow, but at 133 minutes the whole movie feels in need of a reboot.

Tiresome CG visualization of data transferring between computers twinkles repetitively and music swells while the camera focuses on button keystrokes and scrolling code.