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Thumbs-down review of Kevin Mitnick movie just released on DVD

“Track Down” is a 2000 movie about hacker Kevin Mitnick that was never released theatrically. Christopher Null reviews it in filmcritic.com.

The facts aside (and it’s impossible to dispute the facts in Track Down, because there’s no attempt to be accurate at all), Track Down is simply not a very good movie. Director Joe Chappelle has the unenviable task of helming this mess, having formerly directed a scant few films — including Halloween 6 and Hellraiser 4 — that couldn’t have presented much of a challenge at all. With Track Down he must have found himself in a huge mess, stuck with a highly technical and convoluted plot and rising stars to coddle. You can almost hear him saying, “Ah, fuck it, let’s just put a car chase in here.”

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