Took away 2 stars for the movie filming, directing, looonnnggg/repetitive story line, horrible fight sences, and boringness. Added 8 stars for Chris Hemsworth eye candy and acting. This movie is a solid 3-4 when you are bored. He brought it WAY up.

So this hacker is in pris for... well, hacking and is promptly released on licence as he's the only one who can possibly solve whatever this crisis is. Almost instantly he turns into an action hero secret agent type who's proficient with weaponry - and that's it in a nutshell.

When i saw this movie for the first time i didn't understand it... the movie seemed surprisingly realistic at times especialy the shooting scenes and other times as it is said in the movie at some point "overwritten" Well now after few yeas i see it as a masterpiece! there is no way Michael Mann can slip... you may think so because he really wants to keep his idiocracies which is part of the artistic expression. Everithing in this movie is well calibrated, the lightning, camera angles, he communicates trough every color and sound, i can see Mann's spirit in every scene :) which is a sign of a true story teller! and Hemsworth did a fantastic job expressing Mann's point of view.

The plot was good and interesting, the actors been well cast and performed good. The directing was for the first part of the movie good but got clumsy in the end. The only action scene that was good, was the brawl in the restaurant, all others been dreadful, unrealistic and brain dead.