VividSimon Simply Perfect

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

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.

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.

FJWWindsor Blackhat is full of highly improbable and patently implausible scenarios that add up to the ultimate shortcoming of the movie. The antagonist begins by blowing a nuclear reactor and then manipulating the soy market, after which the Feds zero in right away on the scheme and those who benefited. Yet, in his grand scheme, the antagonist expects to corner the tin market without consequence?!?! C'mon...And did I mention tin? TIN?!?! Of all the commodities in the world, this bad guy goes after a low margin staple produced in a country (Malaysia) that isn't even in the top six countries producing tin! Then there's the protagonist, who we're expected to believe can hack into the NSA computers. C'mon...The acting is incongruous and the sound editing was terrible. When dealing with Asian actors, this latter issue becomes ever more important, as they tend to have a softer timbre. The lack of attention to sound had many of the participants mumbling, or the dialogue fading in and out.But the real "nail in the coffin" was seeing Michael Mann's name attached to this mess. Is this the same man who directed Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Thief? I expected a much better film coming from an MM production. Still, there's several action sequences that move the flick along, for which I give it four stars.

Harrison Tweed (Top Dawg) Although I didn't have high expectations going into this film, it still managed to be so disappointing, slow and boring, I couldn't even finish the film to the end. I really didn't care what happened. Some of the main problems for this film is the slow boring pace, the lack of real action, and the absolute wrong casting for this film. Sorry, but Chris Hemsworth is not convincing one bit as a hacker. It's a very generous 6/10 from me.