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Blackhat
In an exciting story about the breakthrough of the Hong Kong nuclear plant and trade in Mercantile, Chicago, by unknown assailants known for their skill in cyber piracy. To solve that issue, a young man named Nick Hathaway, a very talented inventor, was recruited. The young man was released from prison for 15 years and was recruited by the FBI and the CIA to arrest those pirates who caused the cyber attacks. It's a global adventure from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta and others.
23 May 1968, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 November 1971, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
1 July 1967, London, England, UK
14 December 1969, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
16 April 1964, Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
11 August 1965, Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
9 October 1970, Elmira, New York, USA
1 October 1973, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
17 April 1965, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
June 11, 2016
It should have been a Jason Bourne flick. Instead, it's sort of a poor man's version, so try not to think too hard about that, or the whole thing will turn mildly ridiculous.
April 09, 2016
[Hemsworth] spends much of the film tapping away on keyboards, frequently looking down at his hands - no, really, the expert computer hacker looks at his hands to type.
September 13, 2016
The trailer had promised a fast-paced thriller. It lied.
May 30, 2016
This is not a film about tight plotting or slam-bang action, but about style. Pure, hypnotic, mesmerizing style.
January 16, 2015
The movie's most depressing feature is its naked pandering for overseas box office. If there's one thing worse than appealing to the lowest common American denominator, it's appealing to the lowest common global denominator.
July 14, 2016
Mann's preference for digital film is not well served by some of Blackhat's more frenetic sequences.
February 02, 2015
Hints of a quasi-apocalyptic chill seem arbitrary-neither symbolic nor dramatic. The effect is like watching software run itself.
January 16, 2015
It has a decent ludicrousness and Mann's one-of-a-kind talent for using digital photography and naturalistic light to complicate and invigorate anonymous spaces.
January 16, 2015
Given our brave new cyber world, someone in Hollywood is going to have to come up with a better way to do it. Watching actors tap out code as big buzzing screens of digital data flash on the screen just doesn't cut it.
January 17, 2015
Let's start with the fact that Hemsworth stars as the world's most brilliant hacker. Let that sink in for a moment.
January 23, 2015
Nobody can top Mann's urban night scenes, with their oily neon and skyscraper light grids, but for the most part this plays like Heat without the heat.
