Michael Mann
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Trailer Watch: Michael Mann’s Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth
Here we have the first trailer for Michael Mann’s Blackhat, the Heat director’s first film since 2009’s lukewarmly received Public Enemies. Observe Chris Hemsworth as a hacker who enters government service to battle some really dangerous high-level computer shenanigans. The trailer plays adroitly on contemporary paranoia about the real-world fallout of technological malfeasance, and there’s gunplay galore in the director’s trademark digital-blur-at-night idiom. The vibe and visuals are very much in keeping with Mann’s 2005 update of his Miami Vice, complete with Hemsworth’s slicked-back, Colin Farrell-esque hairdo, though the music — Antony & The Johnsons covering “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” — […]
by Vadim Rizov on Sep 25, 2014 -
“BADNESS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!”
I was a big, big fan of the TV show, and I actually don’t hate this. It’s just a teaser, of course, and the AICN talkbackers are having a field day with it, saying it looks like a Bacardi ad, but, Linkin Park music and all, the vibe seems right for a 2006 update of Miami Vice directed by Michael Mann. It’s weird, though, the dozens of hours I spent watching that show seem co-opted in my head by the considerably fewer I spent playing GTA: Vice City, and it’s those scenes that I’m flashing back to as Colin Farrell […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 21, 2005
