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So, I am apparently one of the 12 people on Earth who saw the movie "Blackhat." Verdict: Don't bother, unless you really like:
1. Chris Hemsworth
2. Watching excellent actors struggle valiantly to wrest some goodness out of an ultimately wretched plot, script, and everything else about this movie.
3. Fight scenes filmed with that oh-so-edgy rattling camera.
I'm not even going to bother so summarize this silly thing. Just watch any other movie about "hackers," and you'll get the idea. However, here are some things I learned while watching this:
1. Pharmacies in Indonesia ROCK. You can go into one and buy everything you need to treat major gunshot wounds, including IV bags and antibiotics.
2. If you just duct-tape enough magazines around your midsection, you will have enough protection to slow down a round from a rifle that was previously throwing slugs through heavy-duty shipping containers. And police cars.
3. If you are trying to sneak into a computer room in China to steal a piece of hardware, it helps you to remain anonymous in a roomful of Asian people to be extremely large and white. Just pull down your baseball cap, you'll be fine.
4. If your sibling waves poiniantly at you from a car where he is sitting alone, wave goodbye...forever.
5. And last but certainly not least, if some muckety-muck's kid does a special project in computer class to illustrate packets of information buzzing along the "net," it will appear in loving, extended detail to illustrate how computers communicate...not once, but twice, both outbound and on the return path.
1. Chris Hemsworth
2. Watching excellent actors struggle valiantly to wrest some goodness out of an ultimately wretched plot, script, and everything else about this movie.
3. Fight scenes filmed with that oh-so-edgy rattling camera.
I'm not even going to bother so summarize this silly thing. Just watch any other movie about "hackers," and you'll get the idea. However, here are some things I learned while watching this:
1. Pharmacies in Indonesia ROCK. You can go into one and buy everything you need to treat major gunshot wounds, including IV bags and antibiotics.
2. If you just duct-tape enough magazines around your midsection, you will have enough protection to slow down a round from a rifle that was previously throwing slugs through heavy-duty shipping containers. And police cars.
3. If you are trying to sneak into a computer room in China to steal a piece of hardware, it helps you to remain anonymous in a roomful of Asian people to be extremely large and white. Just pull down your baseball cap, you'll be fine.
4. If your sibling waves poiniantly at you from a car where he is sitting alone, wave goodbye...forever.
5. And last but certainly not least, if some muckety-muck's kid does a special project in computer class to illustrate packets of information buzzing along the "net," it will appear in loving, extended detail to illustrate how computers communicate...not once, but twice, both outbound and on the return path.