Chapeau noir

« Au final, aucun élément ne parvient à nous maintenir dans ce flot de plans intéressants individuellement, mais qui peine à former un tout convaincant… ce que l'on est en droit d'attendre d'un film. »

« There are actually some interesting concepts and perspectives on the modern world present in Blackhat, as the techno-centric plot and the forced international alliances forged as a result provide realizations of just how small the world has become, but it comes together in a package that’s unfortunately largely underwhelming. »

« While Blackhat is obviously not top-tier Mann, at times it comes close enough and a slightly diminished Mann is still better than just about everybody else. »

« The dialogue, mostly crisp and sparse, can lapse into corny as well, and a single line of pointed backstory for Davis' character feels tacked-on. »

« The urgent, provoking Blackhat is art imitating the perils of cyber-life, and Mann is just the groundbreaking artist to do it. »

« (...)  the film might have been more unsettling had its villain turned out to be a capricious kid — or scarier yet, had he remained a ghost in the machine, a force with no face, nor any hat to speak of. »

« The problem, I think, is that Mann hasn’t reconfigured himself for his new milieu. »

« Given Sony's recent travails, the timing couldn’t be better for a movie about the vulnerability of international computer networks, but Blackhat is too much of an embarrassment to cash in its zeitgeist points. »

« The plot isn't twisty enough to be surprising or satisfying, the dialogue seems cribbed from an old RadioShack catalog, and the performances are lifelessly flat. »

« It's intimate, emotional, vicious: flesh is punctured, blood spilled. »

« En revanche, on reconnaît tout du long le style nerveux et le prodigieux sens de l'image du réalisateur de The insider. »

« Du coup, quand les 133 minutes du film sont enfin écoulées, on pousse un gigantesque soupir de soulagement, en regrettant seulement d’avoir perdu sa soirée et de précieuses heures de sommeil à regarder ce mauvais film. »

« Blackhat est sans équivoque la proposition la plus dure et la plus brute de Mann, à la fois sublime et étourdissante, quoiqu'imparfaite. »