Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
Hints of a quasi-apocalyptic chill seem arbitrary-neither symbolic nor dramatic. The effect is like watching software run itself.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Feb 2015
rotten:
Nobody can top Mann's urban night scenes, with their oily neon and skyscraper light grids, but for the most part this plays like Heat without the heat.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
23 Jan 2015
rotten:
Let's start with the fact that Hemsworth stars as the world's most brilliant hacker. Let that sink in for a moment.
– Christy Lemire,
ChristyLemire.com,
17 Jan 2015
rotten:
The movie's most depressing feature is its naked pandering for overseas box office. If there's one thing worse than appealing to the lowest common American denominator, it's appealing to the lowest common global denominator.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan 2015
fresh:
It has a decent ludicrousness and Mann's one-of-a-kind talent for using digital photography and naturalistic light to complicate and invigorate anonymous spaces.