A German take on cybercrime and the world of the hackers.
Benjamin returns to a hotel room to find his co-conspirators brutally murdered. In terror of his own life he hands himself into the police, saying that he will reveal the identities of some of the most wanted cyber criminals, but only if he can talk to Hanne Lindberg, a discredited senior investigator at Europol. As he reveals his past to his questioner we see his life played out in flashback. The nerdy kid that nobody noticed, discovering that his ability as a computer hacker made him feel like somebody, and his being recruited into a group that specialised in audacious high profile hacking stunts, including physical break-ins.
This culminates in a successful attack on the German Security Service that will bring them into conflict with a group that has links with the Russian Mafia, a group that Hanne has been in pursuit of for years. Promised immunity if he can help to bring down the group, Benjamin cooperates with the authorities.
Fast paced and loud, fun and often very funny, the film is engaging, but offers little originality in the storyline. It is redeemed by the plot twists at the end that manage to spring a few surprises and leave the audience wondering whose truth they have been watching.
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