Blackhat (2015) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Former MIT student and imprisoned bank hacker recruited by Chen Dawai to track a global cybercriminal. He manipulates surveillance, illegally hacks the NSA to locate enemy servers, and travels to Mala...
Captain of the PLA cyberwarfare unit tasked with identifying the hacker behind a nuclear meltdown and stock exchange attack. He recruits Hathaway from prison, coordinates with the FBI, and traces fund...
FBI Special Agent who collaborates with the Chinese cyberwarfare unit. She meets Chen Dawai, authorizes Hathaway's illegal NSA hack, and joins the investigation in Hong Kong. She is killed in a shooto...
Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to supervise Nicholas Hathaway during his temporary release. Hathaway manipulates his GPS tracker to evade detection. Jessup accompanies the team to Hong Kong and dies alo...
Hong Kong Police Inspector assisting the joint investigation. He helps trace illicit stock profits to Elias Kassar and participates in a raid on Kassar's hideout. Trang is killed during a shootout in...
Paramilitary operative and financier behind the cyberattacks. The team traces illegal stock profits to him and raids his hideout. He survives the initial raid, assassinates Chen Dawai and Carol Barret...
The primary hacker and partner of Elias Kassar. After his Jakarta-based server is located, he negotiates a partnership with Nicholas Hathaway. During a meeting in Indonesia, he attacks Hathaway with a...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Carol Barrett reluctantly sanctions Hathaway's illegal hack into the NSA to use the Black Widow software.
Mark Jessup is assigned to accompany Nicholas Hathaway and monitor him during his temporary release from prison.
The team travels to Hong Kong and works with Police Inspector Alex Trang, who helps trace the stock-trade money to Elias Kassar.
Chen Dawai learns that key parts of the remote access tool were written by Nicholas Hathaway at MIT and requests his temporary release from prison.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Jessup shoots several of Kassar's men during the attack following Chen Dawai's death, before Kassar's forces kill him.
Carol Barrett and Mark Jessup arrive together after Chen Dawai's vehicle is attacked and shoot several of Kassar's men before both are killed.
Hathaway forces Sadak to contact him, survives Sadak's knife attack, and kills him during the ensuing confrontation.
Sadak is identified as the primary hacker and partner of Elias Kassar, while Kassar provides the paramilitary side of the operation.
Alex Trang participates in the raid on Kassar's hideout and is killed in the drainage-tunnel shootout as Kassar's group escapes.
Chen Dawai helps trace the illicit stock profits to Elias Kassar, whose men later kill Chen with a rocket attack.
Chen Dawai meets FBI Special Agent Carol Barrett in Los Angeles, and the Chinese government and FBI jointly investigate the cyberattacks.
Hathaway pursues Kassar after the Hong Kong raid, survives Kassar's ambush, and kills him with a sharpened screwdriver.
A convicted hacker joins an international pursuit of a cybercriminal whose financial conspiracy escalates into violent global sabotage.
Directed by Michael Mann
Blackhat (2015) · 5.5/10 · action, crime, thriller
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