By Trakt's own system, I rate this movie "poor". So poor in fact that I had absolutely no recollection of it before rewatching it recently.

To its credit, I thought he movie did a fair job of representing cyber security and hacking, a challenging thing to get right. The real process is tedious, time consuming and unappealing on screen, so the representation offered here is a good compromise between reality and the ridiculous fast-paced NCIS style hacking we're often confronted with.

Chris Hemsworth plays an attractive, fit and athletic character who also happens to be a genius hacker. This man genius movie trope is almost always irritating for me and this is no exception. I didn't find myself attached to any of the characters and the love story didn't seem to serve any objective.

Although the story pacing sometimes felt off, it held my interest. I wish the movie had stayed focused on hacking [spoiler]instead of devolving into a mission impossible action type ending[/spoiler], which could have made it more satisfying overall.

I didn't have a bad time and if the topics seem interesting to you, it might not be bad watch as long as you go in with moderate expectations. I'm just not sure I'll remember this movie the next time I feel like watching something about hacking.

It seems to me that real programmers, for example, like the ones that created my favorite Utopia p2p application, look a little different and are engaged in completely different things. They do not seek to harm users, but rather try to help keep personal data safe.

**It's about the virtual terrorism and fighting back it in the same way.**

This is the story of the United States and China, that also involves some of the southeast Asian nations when the story takes us there. So this tale is about an explosion at a Chinese nuclear plant and followed by the investigation conducted by the US and Chinese collaboration, the cops hire a convicted hacker to fast up the process and to nab the culprit who was behind the power plant disaster. These people begin their hunting by tracking the clues to the different locations and where they finally land and how it all come end told in the rest of the film.

I felt it was a too much realistic presentation. Like a documentary film quality, but full suspense filled story that stretched to over two hours. So sometimes it was very boring, because slowing down in any big development. At a time, some of the important scenes accomplished so fast like most of the action sequences. It mainly revolved around hacking plot, but was not that intelligent, so can be understood by everyone.

Initially I disliked those circuit board graphics, which I thought was a good detail, but too much for a film like this and it never looked so convincing. The film was average, but I anticipated lot better than that. I liked the actors though. Whether it was Chris Hemsworth or the Chinese counterparts, all were decent according to what the tale required. The film is not for everybody, particularly if you don't like slow narration, you should not consider it to watch. But the film is not bad for once viewing.

_6/10_