
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 nuclear power plant 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 h... (Full plot summary below)
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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 nuclear power plant 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.
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| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzSlick and sometimes goofy as it is, Blackhat is an odd, fascinating movie: a high-tech action thriller about the human condition. I can think of no better current illustration of the notion that, to quote this site's founder, it's not what a movie is about, it's how it's about it. |
| Vanity FairRichard LawsonThere is enough to like in Blackhat, if you don't mind sifting through a lot of bad code. |
| Mania.comRob VauxWhile it isn't great, the director's technical flourishes and storytelling elements remain consistently compelling, |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyOccasionally, Mann shows flashes of the sort of springloaded action set pieces he was once hailed for, like a shoot-out during a religious parade. But mostly they just come off as warmed-over parodies from a onetime master aping his own style. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMann’s first feature in nearly six years, the hacking thriller Blackhat is rough even by the standards of its director’s current creative period. |
| Consequence of SoundMichael RoffmanBlackhat isn't interested in being a Michael Mann film. It's a serviceable crime thriller with the confused aspirations of wanting to be the next Jason Bourne vehicle. |
| ViceMichael NordineThe kind of movie film theorists could only dream about a century ago. |
| Slant MagazineJesse CataldoMichael Mann's camera elegantly collapses the spaces between bodies and objects without sacrificing spatial coherence. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd Jorgenson... tries to be a taut cat-and-mouse procedural and a cautionary tale about technological overreach, but fizzles both ways. |
| CineVueCraig WilliamsBlackhat is about the contraflow; it's a disruption in the new technocracy and a fly in the ointment of big budget Hollywood cinema. |