Blackhat , the Michael Mann movie about hackers and international intrigue, was close to unwatchable. The plot was just an all-over-the-place mess. In the action sequences, people were shooting at each other. I got who the good guys were and who the bad guys were (more or less) but I seldom really understood why they were where they were and how the showdown there had come about. I've had time to reflect on it since and "kinda" understand the plot but ... don't see it if you don't like to work that hard. But I'm not part of the hacker subculture, so maybe I just don't get the appeal ... right? Maybe. Except that the movie makes some stupid technical mistakes of the sort that have apparently turned off those who are very much of that subculture. At one point, the protagonists asks to borrow another character's phone, asking, "is it an android" and proceeding to make valuable use of it after getting an affirmative answer. Apparently, ...