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Hacker gets chance for redemption in thriller

January 25, 2015, Sunday | Print Edition

STARRING Australian actor Chris Hemsworth and Chinese actress Tang Wei, Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” portrays a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunting a cybercrime network.

Hemsworth plays Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15-year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggers a terrorist attack in a factory in China.
 
This opportunity reunites him with an old friend but also puts him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese governments as well as a villainous hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life.

 

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