Blackhat

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Our Review Published April 11, 2025

Hacker Movies Series Episode 7

Chris Hemsworth brings his hammer down on a Blackhat hacker who uses the internet to cause stock market manipulation and nuclear reactor meltdown in this 2015 techno-thriller. Can Suicide Squad chica Viola Davis keep the Thor actor from committing cyber crimes of his own as the FBI partners him with college bro Leehom Wang and the Chinese government? And does director Michael Mann generate any heat from sexy co-star Tang Wei clicking on the keyboard? Answers come faster than spikes in soy prices when you Donate now!

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Blackhat

2015 R 2h 13m

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.

Release Date

January 13, 2015

Director

Michael Mann

Writer

Morgan Davis Foehl

Stars

Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany, Andy On Chi-Kit, Yorick van Wageningen, John Ortiz, Ritchie Coster, Christian Borle, Tyson Chak, Brandon Molale, Danny Burstein, Archie Kao, Abhi Sinha, Jason Butler Harner, Manny Montana, Spencer Garrett, Shi Liang, Kan Mok, David Lee McKinney, Sophia Santi, José Luis Márquez, Victor Chi, Peter Jae, Eddie Cheung Siu-Fai, Ivan Ngan, Courtney Wu, Adrian Pang, Kirt Kishita, Leanne Li, Marcus Mok, Timothy Nga, William Mapother, Kamal, Anyu U. Rosli, Frank Cutler, Jeff Roncone, Michael Flores, James Lim, Berg Lee, Anom Perkasa, Jonathan Ozoh, Eric Berindei, Jeremy Tatar, Gerald Petrow, Brian Labahn, Daniel Cahill, Todd Emert, Peter Rowley, Razaq Sahibjahn, Mohd Gaizudeen Sahibjahn, Yonkky Daniel Parengkoan, Musim Surbakti, Fadillah Ramadhan Rachmat, Qurais Mohammed, Acil Azis Amirullah, Seth Adams, Michael Bentt, Vicki Damante, Cheryl Dent, Sara Finley, Beth Fryman, Joe Rudy Guerrero Jr., Tania Gunadi, Tehmina Kaoosji, Kaidy Kuna, Seth Leslie, Thomas Longo, Wilfred Lopez, Silvia McClure, Dina Morrone, Harry Oram, Ales Ordelt, Lyn Quinn, Neil Sandilands, Minn Vo, Alexander von Roon

Producer

Michael Mann, Jon Jashni, Thomas Tull

Cinematography

Stuart Dryburgh

Music

Harry Gregson-Williams

Genre

Action, Crime, Thriller

Country

United States of America

Language

Cantonese, Indonesian, German, Italian, Mandarin, English, Spanish

Budget

$70,000,000

External Links

IMDb | TMDB

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