To me, this movie is perfection.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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.

Michael Mann's BLACKHAT is a hacking-based international thriller starring Marvel main man Chris Hemsworth as an imprisoned computer hacker released from jail to track down an international hacking terrorist with plans for something big. He teams up with characters from the Chinese mainland to bring the villain to book, and the story goes from there. I found this a surprisingly enjoyable little film which mixes the usual computer hacking tropes and effects with a BOURNE-style action plot and at least three decent action scenes. Mann shows that his flair for a violent shoot-out hasn't abandoned him since his HEAT days and the subsequent action is as brutal and exciting as you could want. Hemsworth gives a relaxed performance away from his best-known Thor role and the Chinese actors added to the mix can be relied upon to deliver decent performances. The film is a little long and feels slow at times, particularly with the cliched romantic sub-plot, but it delivers the good and offers thrills a little more cerebral than some.

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.

Movie too slow, I thing more concentration on the love or connection between Hathaway(Chris Hemsworth) & Chen Lien(Wei Tang).Alert a spoilerThe surprise factor is killing of all the supporting actors and actress in a movie is never heard for. Killing of Chen Dawai(Leehom Wang) the lead detective, Carol Barrett(Viola Davis) the lead between USA & China and Mark Jessup(Holt McCallany) the bodyguard to Hathaway. At least you could have shown them brutally injured or hospitalized but no you killed them all. Even the police office who was assigned to them for helping( who died after getting shot in the shoulder)Also surprisingly a computer nerd killing all the bad guys single handily. It looked as if instead of a hacker he was a trained assassin, in close range as well as with a gun. When does a Magazine warped around your body works like a bullet proof vest. In a earlier firing scene (in Honk Kong where they fight with cops) people were getting killed even after having bullet proof vest. The Police officer who was helping the team, dies after getting hit in the shoulder. Who dies after getting shot in the shoulder and also in seconds. But no Hathaway is being shot many times but in the end scene he just gets some gets some scratches not even a wound that need no stitches with no blood loss.Who would want to draw attention to themselves by blowing up a reactor just a for test run for the water pumps. Of course the army, anti terrorist and USA would be after them.