Blackhat (movie)
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:13 pm
For those who might not consider hackers, there are blackhats and whitehats -- much the same as shoot-em-up cowboy flicks.
BLACKHAT is a 2015 movie starring Chris Hemsworth (Marvel's Thor), Viola Davis, and the brother and sister detective pair -- Leehom Wang and Wei Tang plus a host of really excellent character actors.
Unfortunately Michael Mann directed it as if it were his first movie project as a student and he's headed to a failing exam.
SO the plot is that a hacker stops the pumps of a nuclear power plan in Japan and the plant goes critical. Shortly after, a hacker seems to mess around with the Chicago market and soy futures. However, just by coincidence, the Japanese policeman who finally sees the hacking code realizes that him and his college roommate wrote one part of the computer code that enables the computer virus. SO they let Chris Hemsworth out of prison to find the hacker.
All of this is directed like a boring pile of nothing by Michael Mann.
The big question is why are the bad guys destroying a nuclear reactor and why did they manipulate the commodities market.
This could be a really exciting movie is all the action and drama was paced well and cut properly.
However, once Hemsworth and Wei Tang figure out the real threat. This turns into a nice juicy action flick (about the last third of the movie).
You have to think of something worse or more horrific than disabling a nuclear reactor with a meltdown and THAT is the plot by the hackers.
(hint, that doesn't involve rockets or moonshots or other nuclear weapons)
And my rating -- don't pay money to watch this.
BLACKHAT is a 2015 movie starring Chris Hemsworth (Marvel's Thor), Viola Davis, and the brother and sister detective pair -- Leehom Wang and Wei Tang plus a host of really excellent character actors.
Unfortunately Michael Mann directed it as if it were his first movie project as a student and he's headed to a failing exam.
SO the plot is that a hacker stops the pumps of a nuclear power plan in Japan and the plant goes critical. Shortly after, a hacker seems to mess around with the Chicago market and soy futures. However, just by coincidence, the Japanese policeman who finally sees the hacking code realizes that him and his college roommate wrote one part of the computer code that enables the computer virus. SO they let Chris Hemsworth out of prison to find the hacker.
All of this is directed like a boring pile of nothing by Michael Mann.
The big question is why are the bad guys destroying a nuclear reactor and why did they manipulate the commodities market.
This could be a really exciting movie is all the action and drama was paced well and cut properly.
However, once Hemsworth and Wei Tang figure out the real threat. This turns into a nice juicy action flick (about the last third of the movie).
You have to think of something worse or more horrific than disabling a nuclear reactor with a meltdown and THAT is the plot by the hackers.
(hint, that doesn't involve rockets or moonshots or other nuclear weapons)
And my rating -- don't pay money to watch this.