kdr_a This story setting is interesting but I wonder whether it was taken full advantage. Though I was excited in action scenes. By the way,why do Asian brother and sister get a long with? I admire the relationship like them very much.

rust_brittany Took away 2 stars for the movie filming, directing, looonnnggg/repetitive story line, horrible fight sences, and boringness. Added 8 stars for Chris Hemsworth eye candy and acting. This movie is a solid 3-4 when you are bored. He brought it WAY up.

nelliebell-1 I'am not always able to determine just how much of an interest is generated when a motion picture tells the story of Black Hat computing.There does not seem to be an end in just how deep the deep state will go but this film possesses that ability to delve into the deep state and its Black Hat ideology. It, that is this film offers the would-be viewer a glimpse into a very dangerous and deadly world of not only computer hacking but into would be disasters.This is a very serious and deadly contest where good ultimately triumphs over evil.This film is that dramatic and in a manner of speaking it is that well told.The Director Michael Mann did very well as the film was guided by very expert advisors in creating this virtual world that "Black Hat" exists in, as both computer information can be very spot on and violence arrives with the suddenness of true guerrilla quality engagements.There are high profile security agencies involved in one attempt after another to track down and ultimately identify the culprits of a nuclear disaster.I have to give the Director Michael Mann some credit here as well as the performances enhanced this often difficult territory.Michael Mann did more than just Direct he knew what he wanted and it is this opinion that this is a very well performed motion picture.Nick Hathaway played by Chris Hemsworth, Carol Barrets played by Viola Davis, Mark Jessop played by Holt McCallany, Leehom Wang played by Chen Dawai, Elias Kassar portrayed by Richie Coaster and Tang Wei portrayed Leehom Wang's sister.The story is such that compelling viewing is required.The stability of worldwide financial markets and even the very earth is threatened by this terribly dangerous place that the untrustworthy inhabit, indeed we are the curators and this world is our responsibility.The violation of a nuclear reactor in China caused a near meltdown with a bad actor having been hired at a point with access to the very most secure and most sensitive areas of the Reactor.The fault is very hard to fathom because this particular discovery is that this particular individual was in the F.B.I. databases of known Felons.This guy has a record and somehow he had access to one of the most secure networks we know of, a nuclear reactor.It is learned that this violation enabled the principal "Bad Guy" to install a backdoor into a computer switch and once launched drove the Centrifuge to fail which in turn removed any ability to cool the Nuclear Rods. Watch this because this is compelling viewing, it might even get more interesting when watching the run-up of the Futures Markets as what I believe is an actual Botnet used to employ a concentrated buying and selling scheme whereby this particular "Bad Guy" made some 74 million dollars.This is what I meant when I suggested of a threat by the "Deep State".These attacks are worth knowing about and so is "Black Hat". The term "Deep State" is not in a traditional sense to be associated with say The United States or perhaps the country of China, the "Deep State" is mostly used as a descriptive text of a darkened world protected by those whose interests it protects, namely "Hackers", "Blackhats", and those whose ability such protection would best be served. The Dark Web is another associative text whereby everything is sold or exchanged for other things that can be sold for or exchanged. This includes any illicit credit card numbers, social security numbers, classified information and so on. The Dark Web, like The Deep State", serves and protects the interests of a Black Hat Community. There is much in "Black Hat" to write about and perhaps much more as it would concern the Computer. To be certain "Black Hat" has proved to be very interesting both as a Motion Picture and Computer acumen.

Veronique Nadia When I was watching Blackhat, three separate times I questioned whether sitting through until the end was going to kill brain cells. I asked my brother, who thought the movie was okay, to name one personality trait of the main character. After a long pause, he said only "stoic". That's this movie's biggest problem. There is nothing to endear you to any of the characters. They have faces and job titles, but no stories. There is one part of the movie where two characters sit down and have a real conversation about their personal lives and motivations, but it's the part that makes the least sense. They speak in riddles and clichés. Because the characters are so poorly developed, there's no way to forgive the far-fetched plot. The long, artistic shots that would be the film's best quality are part of what makes it so boring. There's no symbolism or meaning in the visual, it's just supposed to look pretty or something, but at best it made me think "Well, I guess that shot was aesthetically pleasing". I wasn't quite sure. If just you're looking for a fun action movie, this isn't the one. The three or so decent action sequences are nice, but short by contrast to the long, meaningless pretty scenes in between. Even the special effects in this movie are confusing. The "hacking" involved isn't too terrible, they actually refer to long periods of time needed to accomplish things, but you also get weird visual effects of the inner workings of computers, beams of light traveling on tracks. It serves no purpose. It doesn't look good. It's just computer-y. I somehow sat through the whole thing, but I would never recommend this movie to anybody.