Fresh
Hackers isn't a very good movie, but it's a darn sight more fun than The Net.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Hackers
Their crime is curiosity.
1995 · 1h 45m · PG-13
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Iain Softley
Overview
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Director and cast
- Iain Softley Director
- Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
- Angelina Jolie as Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
- Matthew Lillard as Emmanuelle Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
- Jesse Bradford as Joey Pardella
- Renoly Santiago as Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'
- Laurence Mason as Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
- Fisher Stevens as Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage
- Lorraine Bracco as Margo
- Wendell Pierce as S.S. Agent Richard Gill
- Michael Gaston Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
After the mechanics of the thriller plot start to kick in, the film drags. And when it's time for the big cyber-showdown, we're stuck, once again, with footage of frantic typing.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
This is a movie that sums up the worst of the computer era: zapping you with techno-cliches and trapping you in constant visual crash and burn.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
The story is negligible, but it offers the same order of fun as a good rock video: the marriage of images and music.
Bruce Diones, New Yorker
Rotten
What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the guileless way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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