Hacking is all over the news right now, and so Universal are being well served by the paranoia and public glee at the dismantling of the seemingly worthy corporate targets. Blackhat has Chris Hemsworth as an imprisoned hacker, needed to break a cybercrime network. It sounds incredibly 90s right now right? Maybe there’ll be a comedy CG sidekick called the Millennium Bug (or Y2K for the kidz).

I’m being unfair, but this new trailer is all over the place. What director Michael Mann is tasked with is making coding and hacking exciting, and there are only so many lines of green text which can fill the screen before the audience turn off.

Hemsworth is looks well served by Viola Davis, Tang Wei and Wang Leehom who complete the cast. And Mann is nothing if not an exacting director, you feel that his hand will be mostly felt here. Hemsworth is great, Mann is a capable of great things.

Let’s see eh?

Here’s the new trailer…