In this stylised German cyber thriller a socially awkward young hacker gets involved with other like-minded technophiles and together they form a group dedicated to high profile system breaches. When they decide to hack into the German Secret Service, things start to go wrong. We begin the story with the hacker being questioned by a Europol agent and from here we go back and forth in time to see how he got here.
Films based around computer-based stories are not the easiest to make very cinematic but Who Am I works out a way to do so. In the film's most distinctive and creative scenes we are shown a visualisation of a virtual world known as the dark net, a place in cyberspace where all of the leading hackers meet up. It is shown here in a physical way by way of masked characters interacting on a subway train. It's a nicely, slightly surreal, and very creative way to depict this and shows some real creativity on the part of the film-makers. There is a good energy about this one, with a fast-paced story and energetic electro soundtrack complimenting it. Its material that has the potential to be quite dry and unexciting but which has instead been skilfully brought to screen in a very engaging manner. The icing on the cake is a very good and surprising ending that is audacious but makes good sense given what has gone before.
Films based around computer-based stories are not the easiest to make very cinematic but Who Am I works out a way to do so. In the film's most distinctive and creative scenes we are shown a visualisation of a virtual world known as the dark net, a place in cyberspace where all of the leading hackers meet up. It is shown here in a physical way by way of masked characters interacting on a subway train. It's a nicely, slightly surreal, and very creative way to depict this and shows some real creativity on the part of the film-makers. There is a good energy about this one, with a fast-paced story and energetic electro soundtrack complimenting it. Its material that has the potential to be quite dry and unexciting but which has instead been skilfully brought to screen in a very engaging manner. The icing on the cake is a very good and surprising ending that is audacious but makes good sense given what has gone before.