Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl
Stars: Chris Hemsworth,
Viola Davis,
Wei Tang
Storyline
Nick Hathaway, 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 a 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 an arch
villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his
freedom and his life.
User Reviews
If
you like taut, slow-burn suspense thrillers like Alfred Hitchcock's
films and 'The Drop' in 2014 with James Gandolfini (which I thought was
excellent), then please *go see this movie* in the theater; I think you
will like it. (If the negative reviewers here thought they were getting a
superhero movie like 'The Avengers', then they weren't paying attention
to the previews :-) .) Blackhat features a computer hacker (Chris
Hemsworth) who is furloughed from prison to counter-attack an elite
cybercrime team. The cybercrime technology in the movie includes current
techniques such as RATs (Remote Access Trojans) and keypad trackers.
Following the movie plot is important -- the script is sparse (my only
real objection); so it's important to track the plot developments.
Michael Mann's camera-work is impressive during chase scenes, and his
animations of cybercrime technology processes are inventive. I plan to
see it a second time in the theater with other friends.
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