Plot
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, making numbers go way up. 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, is tasked to find the people responsible for the attacks. Dawai enlists the aid of his sister Lien. He meets with Agent Carol Barrett of the FBI in Los Angeles and reveals the code in the RAT was written by himself and Nicholas Hathaway, his roommate in college. Hathaway is serving a prison sentence for computer crimes and Dawai asks that the FBI arrange for his release to help them. Hathaway is offered temporary release in exchange for his services, but he tells the warden that he will only provide help if his sentence is commuted. The agreement is made, but if Hathaway fails, he will be sent back to prison immediately. Barrett's partner Jessup is also assigned to keep an eye on Hathaway.
Public Information
- Title : Blackhat
- Directed by : Michael Mann
- Produced by :
- Thomas Tull
- Michael Mann
- Jon Jashni
- Written by :
- Morgan Davis Foehl
- Michael Mann
- Music by :
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Atticus Ross
- Leo Ross
- Cinematography : Stuart Dryburgh
- Edited by :
- Joe Walker
- Stephen Rivkin
- Jeremiah O'Driscoll
- Mako Kamitsuna
- Production company :
- Legendary Pictures
- Forward Pass
- Distributed by : Universal Pictures
- Release dates : January 16, 2015
- Running time : 133 minutes
- Country : United States
- Language : English
While looking into the hack at the trade exchange, the team discovers that an employee from the computer systems department who recently resigned, James Lozano, was in reality an ex-convict whose real name is Alonzo Reyes. Hathaway and Lien go to Reyes's apartment, where he is found dead in his room from what appears to be a drug overdose. Hathaway looks at Reyes's computer and sees an email arranging for a meeting that night. Hathaway replies affirmative to the email for the meeting to happen.
That night, Hathaway and Lien go to the meeting location, a Korean restaurant. While they wait, Lien asks Hathaway what he went to prison for. He says that he first spent a little more than a year in prison for a bar fight, but his hacking landed him back in there for 13 years. Hathaway doesn't think much of himself, but Lien believes he is a smart man with a lot of worth. They continue to wait for their suspect until Hathaway goes into the back of the restaurant and finds a security camera terminal. The camera is directed at where Hathaway and Lien were sitting and appears to be streaming its feed to another location. Hathaway manages to send a threat to the camera's operator via the terminal. Back in the restaurant, three Korean men enter and aggressively approach Hathaway. He promptly beats them all senseless.
Cast
- Chris Hemsworth as Nick Hathaway
- Tang Wei as Chen Lien
- Viola Davis as FBI Agent Carol Barrett
- Ritchie Coster as Kassar
- Holt McCallany as FBI Agent Jessup
- Yorick van Wageningen as 'The Boss'
- Leehom Wang as Chen Dawai
- Andy On as Hong Kong Police Inspector Alex Trang
- Manny Montana as Lozano
- William Mapother as Rich Donahue
- Archie Kao as Shum
- Shi Liang as Lieutenant Colonel Zhao
- Cheung Siu Fai as Chow
- Adrian Pang as Keith Yan
- Jason Butler Harner as Frank
- John Ortiz as Henry Pollack
- Alexander von Roon as News Anchor
