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A new twist for the hacker personality. Chris Hemsworth is not your Jonny Lee Miller, Justin Long, or Seth Green physique hacker. After this you are probably going to see more of the Geek Squad spending time in the gym to bulk up.

Nick Hathaway (Hemsworth), an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in factory in China. This opportunity will reunite him with an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life.

Don’t get too attached to the supporting cast as the new genre is to kill off your favorite characters. This movie smacks of a Fast and Furious or Bourne franchise ending, leaving it open for a sequel. I am sure Chris Hemsworth is the big box office draw for this predictable and formulaic movie. Pretty entertaining, watchable, and decent timing of the movie. Michael Man could have used some better autofocus and image stabilization on some of the street scenes. Also, the movie could have done without the Tron-esque graphics of the virus rushing through the the computer circuitry. It only detracted from the movie.

Great mindless matinee fodder.

Rating: 2.7 out of 5