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Hackers on DVD (1995)

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Average rating: (67%)
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Starring: Jonny Lee Miller | Angelina Jolie | Fisher Stevens | Lorraine Bracco | Matthew Lillard
Director: Iain Softley
Studio: MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 101 mins
Certificate: 12
User collections: My Top Films | Tennage Kicks | all time great's | Movies the defined and redefined... | Computer Movies
Genres: Thriller
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired: English, German
Released: 01/02/2000

Brief synopsis of Hackers

A young hacker prodigy meets other kids like himself when he and his mother move cross-country and settle in New York City. High school takes on a new light when Dade (Jonny Lee Miller) meets a group of misfits and rich kids who hack into computer systems for fun. When one of their group is suddenly arrested, the others band together to take on a corporate hacker disguised as a security officer and attempt to bring down his devious and diabolical plans. The film features one of Angelina Jolie's first screen roles.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Teenage hackers uncover a massive computer fraud in this romantic action adventure from director Iain Softley that's set against the intriguing backdrop of New York's cyber-culture. It's little more than a standard industrial espionage chase thriller, given a stylish patina by its digital-age atmosphere, complete with often bewildering technical data and imaginative journeys down the information super-highway. New mouse on the mat Jonny Lee Miller and tough net surfer Angelina Jolie interface well as the console-crossed lovers, each trying to prove their laptop supremacy.

Variety

"...A brisk little thriller....Miller and Jolie are appropriately engaging as the romantic leads..."

USA Today

"...A buoyantly nutty them-vs.-us comedy with two well-cast newcomer leads..." -- 3 out of 4 stars

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Rated - 5 starsGreat, but a bit technical

Philippa Scott from East Lothian, Scotland , 24/09/2004

I have seen this film a few times, and you really need to in order to understand whats going on. Basically, Dade Murphy/'Zero Cool'/'Crash Override' is an excellent hacker who has been in trouble with the FBI. When he moves to NYC, he encounters and befriends some fellow hackers, including 'Acid Burn' (Angelina Jolie), 'Cereal Killer', 'Phantom Phreak', 'Lord Nikon' and Joey, who is too uncool to have an alias apparently. Together, they discover a plot by another hacker, 'The Plague', to rob banks around the world using a worm virus, while he distracts the FBI with another virus called 'Da Vinci', which will basically cause a worldwide disaster. And why are Dade and his friends involved? Because they're getting framed for it. This movie is fast moving, fun and has a cool cast. Just try to keep up with the computer talk.

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Rated - 1 starsCould have been so much more

ORANGE900 from Devon , 20/05/2004

The opening sequence, looked like the makings of a half decent film, but as it progresses you soon realise its not and quickly goes down hill soon after.

It contains loads of mid 90’s computer jargon, and super cheesy lines, making you cringe hearing them, the similar sort of lines that have been used in films like “The Core” and “The Italian Job 2003” very Hollywood.

Hacker could have been so much more, and contain some real substance, rather then the pap that it is; it plays on peoples pre-conceived ideas, giving them exactly what they want to see and hear.

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Rated - 4 starsSuperb techno-comedy

Alex Morris from UK , 20/10/2004

I'm not sure if this film is *meant* to be funny, but it's a perennial favourite of mine.

All the cliches are present-and-correct: absurdly low resolutions on the computer screens, so the camera can make sense of them (try filming a laptop running at 1600x1200...); suitable chirps, beeps and whistles whenever anything 'computery' is going on; an enormous visual super-computer (the 'Gibson', natch) which is the ultimate goal; incompetent Feds headed up by an utter buffon; jargon up the wazoo, and more.

'He's elite!'

Heh. Yeah, sure.

It's a hoot to watch, as long as you don't take it seriously. Top marks.

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Rated - 4 stars

Vinu#1 from WAVERTREE , 17/12/2003

Got the movie in the mail.Scratched it open.put it in the dvd player,took a packet of popcorn, offed the lights, sat on the sofa, put the movie on.....wowa it was really a greate movie...i recommend you guys watch it...if you're really into these mischiefs you are on the right point baby.Watch it!...

Well to be frank,it has a bit of an unrealistic approach towards its graphics.as though really hackers wont find themself in front of a graphical interface.even though the whole situation was a bit exaggerated in the movie,its still a good choice to go for.it also has comedies which will chukle your mouth a bit here and here along with the pop corn.:)

alvin

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