RottenTomatoes Score: 31% (4.7 out of 10) Box Office: Making just $11.9 million to date against a huge $70 million budget, Michael Mann follows up the disappointing box office showings of Miami Vice (a flop that barely made its budget back) and Public Enemies (scarcely successful but underwhelming) with a straight-up financial stinker. Is the director's star fading? The skeptics had their claws out for this movie ever since the first trailer dropped, and sadly, they were right. Mann delivers his expectedly glorious, gritty visuals, but the techno-thriller plot feels at least five years too late to be interesting, and, in honesty, is Chris Hemsworth very believable as a hacker? Not really. The action intermittently sizzles, but from a director as (sometimes) brilliant as Mann, he needs to push a lot harder than this. Hopefully the movie won't hurt his ability to command big budgets too much.
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