Blackhat (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blackhat |
| Original title | Blackhat |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language |
English , Chinese , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Mann |
| script | Morgan Davis Foehl |
| production | Michael Mann, John Jashni , Thomas Tull |
| music |
Harry Gregson-Williams , Atticus Ross , Leopold Ross |
| camera | Stuart Dryburgh |
| cut |
Mako Kamitsuna , Jeremiah O'Driscoll , Stephen E. Rivkin , Joe Walker |
| occupation | |
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Blackhat is an American action film directed by Michael Mann from the year 2015 . The leading actor is Chris Hemsworth in the role of US hacker Nick Hathaway, who helps Chinese investigators to find a criminal hacker who, among other things, carried out a cyber attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant. The main locations for the film are Hong Kong and Jakarta .
The film premiered on January 8, 2015 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles . The film was released in German cinemas on February 5, 2015. The film, distributed by Universal Pictures , was produced by Legendary Pictures .
On April 2, 2018, the film was released on German television ( ZDF ) under the title Blackhat - Out of Control .
action
An explosion occurs in a reactor at a nuclear power plant in Hong Kong 's Chai Wan district after the cooling systems fail. At least eight people die and over 20 are injured and irradiated. The cause of the failure of the cooling systems was malware that must have been smuggled in by a black hat, a criminal hacker. Similar cyberattacks on US nuclear power plants carried out at the same time fail. The next day there is a sudden surge in soy prices on the Chicago Stock Exchange . It turns out that the price explosion was also caused by a cyber attack.
The Chinese authorities have commissioned the Chinese officer and hacker Chen Dawai to investigate the perpetrators of the two attacks. In addition to the support of his sister Chen Lien, who is well versed in data technology, Dawai is getting help from the American hacker Nick Hathaway, with whom he studied at MIT years ago and programmed certain remote maintenance software , which is called RAT ("Remote Access Tool"). . Hathaway has been in a Pennsylvania prison for credit card fraud for years . He is blackmailing US state officials who are cooperating with China with regard to the search for terrorists, impunity for themselves if he is successful in helping the investigation. He comes out of prison with an electronic ankle cuff for surveillance . Under the supervision of FBI officer Carol Barrett, he helps the Chens with the investigation.
Hathaway realizes that the Blackhat has further developed the RAT and thus bypassed the security systems of the Chinese nuclear power plant. Because the US nuclear power plants use different software, the hacker's attack there failed. Via MIT, the trail leads to Los Angeles, to the apartment of a man they find dead. In his data, Hathaway and Chen Lien find the address of a fast-food restaurant. Once there with Lien, Hathaway quickly realizes that they have fallen into a trap: the blackhat wanted to see if anyone had caught his eye. Blackhat henchmen try to murder Hathaway and Lien in the shop, but are overwhelmed by Hathaway.
From the deceased in LA, a trail of high-sum transfers leads the Chens, Hathaway and Barrett to Hong Kong . There they discover that the traces of couriers' movements intersect at a certain point in the city. Arriving at the location, they discover a Bluetooth transmitter through which the blackhat's accomplices apparently communicate with one another. The Lebanese dealer Elias Kassar is one of them. A trail leads from Hong Kong to Macau . Under a casino there near the harbor, the investigators, supported by the Chinese police, track down Kassar and his accomplices, who defend themselves with all their might against the investigators: Kassar lets the investigators under fire for several minutes, some of them dying from an exploding nail bomb.
While Hathaway and Lien are investigating, they fall in love and have sex too.
The heavily irradiated control room of the nuclear power plant, where the explosion occurred, is now accessible again for at least a few minutes. That's why Hathaway manages to find a hard drive there. The investigators found fragments of data from the malware. The National Security Agency refuses to give Barrett access to the Black Widow secret program , which they can use to reconstruct the missing data. That's why Hathaway hacked into Black Widow . Barrett unofficially allows the illegal activity because she lost her husband in the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and is therefore determined to fight the current terrorism. Using Black Widow , the investigators learn from the now completely readable data fragments that the server and thus the blackhat using it operate from Jakarta and that the blackhat uses satellite images of the Malaysian coastal region.
The illicit use of Black Widow by Hathaway has not gone unnoticed by the governments of China and the USA . The Chinese authorities want to protect relations with the USA and therefore commission Chen Dawai to hand over Hathaway to them. At the same time, the NSA is looking for Hathaway in China. Dawai warns Hathaway of his impending arrest, which is why Hathaway is able to flee. When he said goodbye to the Chens in order to investigate alone, Kassar carried out an assassination attempt with accomplices and a bazooka: Chen Dawai, Carol Barrett and a US marshal , who had just arrived at the scene, died. The latter can shoot some of Kassar's accomplices. After successfully escaping from Kassar, Hathaway and Lien have Hathaway's electronic ankle cuffs removed in the Chinese underground.
Together with Lien, Hathaway is touring the location in Malaysia shown in the satellite photo. Once there, they discover a huge tin ore mining system in one of several valleys . It is operated with pumps of the same type in the cooling system of the Chinese reactor. Hathaway and Lien are convinced that the conveyor system is the Blackhat's next target. The blackhat wants to drive up the stock exchange price for tin ore with an attack on the plant in order to benefit from the price gains. The attacks on the Chinese nuclear power plant and the triggering of the rise in the price of soya apparently only served the Blackhat as an exercise for this planned attack.
Hathaway and Lien have now arrived in Jakarta. They steal a hard drive from a server room that Blackhat is using. Using this hard drive and by hacking into the bank used by the blackhat, Hathaway transfers the $ 74 million owned by the blackhat to his own account. He then blackmailed the blackhat, who wanted his money back, by telephone and by demanding 20 percent of the tin profits. Hathaway then meets with the Blackhat in the middle of a huge street parade in Jakarta. Before that, he prevents Kassar from being murdered by stabbing him to death. He then kills the Blackhat, full of vengeance for the deaths of Dawai and his other friends.
background
The film had a budget of $ 70 million and grossed only around $ 4.4 million on its opening weekend in the US.
The European version of the film is around half a minute shorter than the US version. The background information on a person has been removed for the European area.
criticism
"Michael Mann's thriller gains unexpected topicality through the cyberattack on Sony, but it does not find a convincing cinematic answer to the facelessness of Internet crime."
“'Blackhat' is [...] a beautifully photographed action film, but unfortunately insignificant in terms of content, which rarely manages to build something like tension. Michael Mann has always had form before content, but he has never filmed such a weak script either. "
“Elegant thriller about the virtualization of crime, which insists vehemently on the physicality of the world and the thriller genre in the staging of characters and spaces. The complex 'cybercrime' scenario is thus traced back to an archaic conflict between unscrupulous greed and moral action. "
Web links
- Blackhat in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Blackhat atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Blackhat . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 173 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Blackhat . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Entertainment/Blackhat-premiere-held-in-Los-Angeles/fp/8781/
- ↑ Box office / business for Blackhat , in: IMDb, accessed on February 9, 2015
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on July 14, 2015
- ↑ epd Film No. 2/2015, p. 77
- ↑ Oliver Klatt: "Blackhat" is not a hacker film, but a collection of action clichés , in: Wired from February 5, 2015, accessed on June 5, 2016
- ↑ film-dienst No. 3/2015, p. 36