Usually a Michael Mann film is a rigorously made story with excellent visuals and tight controlled performances. This film seems less effective than his previous efforts. His lead Chris Hemsworth seems to restrained in the role of a brilliant computer hacker and frankly all the computer double speak he proclaims doesn't really help his performance.
The film follows some cyber criminals who plan to destroy a large dam in Malaysia by flooding that country's tin mines thereby raising the price of tin or something like that. This just happens to be the same plot of the James Bond film A View To A Kill.
The compensations in this film are the action scenes which Mann films with his usual intensity and the on location filming in Asia. Otherwise, the film is somewhat of a disappointment considering the talent involved.
Screenplay by Morgan Davis Foehl, running time 133 minutes.
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