12 Movies From 2015 That Really Shouldn’t Have Been Boring

6. Blackhat

The Promise Michael Mann directing Chris Hemsworth in an action-oriented and delightfully pertinent tale of computer hacking and underhand financial trading. Story elements aside, Mann's experience in the genre should have guaranteed some thrills along the way. Even Miami Vice managed that. And with an A-List Avenger on the cast, it should have been a disposably entertaining caper. The Problem Maybe Chris Hemsworth isn't the leading man he's being suggested to be? Maybe the film's problems stem from the disparity between the agenda to show super-current cyber crimes authentically and the old-school draw to have everyone fight each other? As if a computer hacker would suddenly be reinvented as Jason Bourne when backed into a corner. Maybe it was just the fact that the central plot sounds like a rehash of the Rock meets the worst Bond villain plot ever conceived? Either way, it was poorly balanced and the first half was particularly snooze-worthy, before the action ramp up just felt out of place.