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Michael Mann
American filmmaker (born )
For other people named Michael Mann, see Michael Mann (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Michael, Isle of Man.
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, ) is an American film director, screenwriter, author and producer, best known for his stylized crime dramas.[1] He has received a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. His most acclaimed works include the films Thief (), Manhunter (), The Last of the Mohicans (), Heat (), The Insider (), Ali (), Collateral (), Public Enemies (), and Ferrari (). He was executive producer on the popular TV series Miami Vice (–90), which he adapted into a feature film.
Early life and education
[edit]Mann was born February 5, ,[2] in Chicago, Illinois.[3] He is Jewish and the son of Esther and Jack Mann.[4][5] His grandfather left the Russian Empire in , and brought his wife and Mann's father over in [6]
Mann graduated from Amundsen High School, also the alma mater of Bob Fosse.[7][8] He then studied English literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[9] While a student, he saw Stanley Kubrick's
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Michael Mann loses his magic touch: Blackhat fits every horrible January movie stereotype
Every time I go into a film released in January — and I’m not talking about movies like Selma or American Sniper that expand nationwide after limited release in December — I hold out a smidgen of hope that it will upend the well-proven theory that the first month of the year is the dumping ground for movies that studios know are bad.
For a while, Blackhat, the latest from once-untouchable director Michael Mann, seems to deliver on that hope. It’s a computer-hacker thriller in which the imprisoned Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth) is legally busted out of jail by the U.S. government when a hacker code he created is used in an attack on a Chinese nuclear plant.
Either realizing his own limitations or that of the story, director Michael Mann soon turns the movie toward less-than-cerebral thrills.
With Chinese computer expert Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang), who was also Hathaway’s college roommate, and FBI agent Carol Barrett (Viola Davis) as his constant companions, Hathaway travels around the world to track down who was responsible for the hack and what his end goal may be.
When done right, computer-hacking stories can be wonderfully suspenseful. And Mann, working from the