Storyline
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.
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Cast
Wendell Pierce, Matthew Lillard, Angelina Jolie, Marc Anthony, Penn Jillette, Lorraine Bracco, Jesse Bradford, Paul Klementowicz, Fisher Stevens, Jonny Lee Miller, Michael Gaston, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago, Felicity Huffman, Ethan Browne, Alberta Watson, Peter Y. Kim, Darren Lee, Liza Walker, Bob Sessions, Blake Willett, Max Ligosh, Jeff Harding, Denise George, William DeMeo
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Reviews
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Jolie, the daughter of Jon Voight, and Miller, a British newcomer, bring a particular quality to their performances that is convincing and engaging.
70
Chicago Reader
Without being any sort of miracle, this is an engaging and lively exploitation fantasy-thriller about computer hackers, anarchistic in spirit, that succeeds at just about everything "The Net" failed to--especially in representing computer operations with some visual flair.
50
The New York Times
A lot of attention has gone into the film's video games, computer imagery and costumes, to the point where simply watching these artifacts is half the fun...But eventually Hackers turns tedious, perhaps not realizing that an audience can get tired of the same old equations floating in cyberspace.
50
ReelViews
There's not a slowly-paced scene or a dull moment to be found. If nothing else, this film won't bore the average viewer. However, when Hackers has been dissected, what's uncovered beneath the flashy skin is an old-fashioned, film-by-numbers thriller.
50
Silly, predictable, and, dare I say it, oddly endearing, Hackers is the first film I've seen in a long while that annoyed me so much I actually enjoyed it.
