Hackers
The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. Their intrusion is discovered, and they must rally to find proof and save themselves before they are captured by the police.
23 January 1955, Manhattan, New York, USA
2 November 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 September 1973, Toronto, Canada
7 July 1972, England, UK
11 June 1965, Oregon, USA
2 October 1954, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
29 November 1971, Nagoya, Japan
9 December 1962, Bedford, New York, USA
May 03, 2013
A disjointed yet generally enjoyable stint at the movies, even for those who don't know an infobahn from a nanosecond.
January 14, 2011
Silly but enjoyable.
August 17, 2015
An onslaught of lame plotting, dopey writing and cornball histrionics.
May 03, 2013
The story is negligible, but it offers the same order of fun as a good rock video: the marriage of images and music.
August 21, 2015
Rarely do movies try-and fail-as hard to be cool as Hackers.
September 07, 2011
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.
May 03, 2013
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.
May 03, 2013
The real crime of cyberpunks is that they have encouraged Hollywood to make several bad movies aimed at exploiting this new lifestyle niche.
May 03, 2013
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.
January 14, 2011
Without being any sort of miracle, this engaging and lively exploitation fantasy-thriller about computer hackers, anarchistic in spirit, succeeds at just about everything The Net failed to.
May 03, 2013
Hackers isn't a very good movie, but it's a darn sight more fun than The Net.
