This was Chris Hemsworth's presumably Chinese-funded movie, judging by the number of Chinese actors and the Hong Kong and Jakarta locations.
It was a topical subject - cyber crime - with a couple of twists, but the acting is a dud. From everyone. We all know Thor Hemsworth couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag. His love interest - the supposedly computer network-savvy Wei Tong - spent all of her time fussing with her hair and keeping her face completely expressionless. Viola Davis looks more and more like an Oprah Winfrey type who applies her make-up in the dark every time she turns out. And so it went.
While most of the computer hacking action was accurate, I can't say in my 30 years of working in IT that I've ever seen a program that makes a noise as it downloads data. And yet this, and pretty much every film featuring a data download, insists on having some bogus "downloading" noise.
Aside from that, the movie was mildly interesting. That's all.
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