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.
Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang | See full cast and crew »
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.Blackhat User Reviews
Another excellent Michael Mann's movie
If you appreciate
Michael Mann's movies like "The Heat", you surely have to watch this one
too. The plot is intelligent, the acting convincing, the filming
realistic. All in all, the movie gives you the impression that what
happens there is credible, it could be similar in the real world and
this also creates a tension in the film because you cannot anticipate a
lot of things like in the majority of movies following the standard
stereotypes. The negative character does not want to overtake and rule
the whole world (like in 007) and the "hero" is not saving the day in
the last counting seconds. Just watch the movie and see for yourself.
