Blackhat (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Mann |
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Harry Gregson-Williams Atticus Ross Leo Ross Ryan Amon |
| Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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133 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $19.7 million |
Blackhat is a 2015 American action thriller mystery film co-written, co-produced and directed by Michael Mann. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany, and Wang Leehom. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on January 8, 2015, and was released in theaters on January 16.Blackhat was a box office bomb, earning only $19.7 million at the box office against a budget of $70 million. While the movie received generally mixed-to-negative reviews, with criticisms focused on casting and pace, some critics found brilliance in the film, enough to place the film in some critics' year-end lists.
At a nuclear plant in Chai Wan, Hong Kong, a hacker causes the coolant pumps to overheat and explode. Not long after in Chicago, the Mercantile Trade Exchange gets hacked, causing soy futures to rise. The Chinese government and the FBI determine that the hack was caused by a Remote Access Tool (RAT). A military officer in China's cyber warfare unit, Captain Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang), is tasked to find the people responsible for the attacks, and enlists the aid of his sister Chen Lien (Tang Wei), a hacking engineer. He meets with FBI Agent Carol Barrett (Viola Davis) in Los Angeles and reveals the code in the RAT was written by himself and Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth), his college roommate, in their school days, years before Hathaway was sent to prison for an unrelated hack. Dawai asks that the FBI arrange for Hathaway to be released from prison, where he is serving a sentence for computer crimes. Hathaway is offered temporary release in exchange for his services.
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