Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
Direction
Mann's tactile digital aesthetic—he shoots code like it's neon noir.
Cinematography
Globe-trotting locations captured with obsessive compositional precision.
Practical Effects
Real locations over green screen—Jakarta finale hits different.
Director
Michael Mann
Chris Hemsworth
Nicholas Hathaway
Tang Wei
Chen Lien
Leehom Wang
Chen Dawai
Viola Davis
Carol Barrett
Holt McCallany
Mark Jessup
Andy On Chi-Kit
Alex Trang
Yorick van Wageningen
Sadak
John Ortiz
Henry Pollack
Ritchie Coster
Elias Kassar
Christian Borle
Jeff Robichaud
Tyson Chak
Tech
Brandon Molale
Sort Guard
Danny Burstein
Assistant Warden Jeffries
Archie Kao
Shum
Abhi Sinha
Daniels
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mann consulted actual hackers and cybersecurity experts, then reportedly ignored their notes on realistic portrayal. The code on screen is real—but the speed isn't.
This was Mann's first digital-only feature, shot on Alexa—ironic for a film about analog souls fighting digital threats. The box office bomb helped kill the mid-budget adult thriller for years.
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