michael mann

While visible and physically damaging terrorism continues to be an everyday threat, there is an invisible type of violence on the rise. As technology develops an increasing presence in every form of business and life, it becomes easier to inflict massive damage without ever coming into physical contact with the target. Many movies have endeavoured to portray the world of hackers on the big screen and each new effort demonstrates how difficult it is to effectively capture this domain for an audience. Blackhat is Michael Mann‘s attempt at depicting a global clash of hacker vs. hacker.