New Blackhat Cut Is Not A DC

Since Michael Mann recently revealed and screened a cut of the hugely panned ‘Blackhat‘, many suspected that the version he was showing was a director’s cut.  Well speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Mann says that that is not the case.

“It was a challenging film to do because the ambition of the film was to do an event driven narrative and develop characters within scenes, but have a very rapid narrative with rhythms imitative of how fast our world moves today in the digital information age. So this is why I intentionally had a rapidly driving plotline. But the engine of that was cyber tech so you had to track with the search for the code… which leads you on and on and on through various hacking techniques. So in moving some of the big pieces of story around I may have obfuscated [the audience] tracking the events of the basic plot.”

So no substantial alterations?  It sounds to me then that this movie cannot be operated on.  I suppose we can pack it up, Blackhat is a dud, fellas…