Madfilm Meetup:
Blackhat | Michael Mann | USA | 2015 | 133 min
Marcus Point Cinemas, Tuesday, January 20, 7:30pm»
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Well we promised to include more critically divisive films this year, so next week we’ll go see Michael Mann’s new cyber-thriller, Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth and Viola Davis. Admission is $5 as a Movie Tuesday at Marcus Point.
Join Madison Film Forum contributors James Kreul and Jake Smith at the screening. With the Madfilm Meetups, the Madison Film Forum provides opportunities attend great films and meet people doing the same.
Blackhat really seems to be dividing the critics so far. It currently has a 44% Tomatometer rating at Rotten Tomatoes. You can find a collection of reviews, positive, mixed, and negative, at our Flipboard Magazine:
Review highlights include:
“Slick and sometimes goofy as it is, Blackhat is an odd, fascinating movie: a high-tech action thriller about the human condition.” Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
“Such a massive fiasco that it’s hard to know where to begin analyzing it.” Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
“A sensuous, ravishing collection of images that occasionally give way to murky plotting and dull characters, Blackhat is a minor (but palpably hypnotic) film from a major American action auteur.” Tim Grierson, Screen International
“It’s acceptably entertaining while you’re watching it. But how depressing that Michael Mann should settle for being acceptably anything.” Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice