God, this movie is bad. And it's so much fun I can hardly stand it. Reasons why you should watch Hackers, in no particular order: - A steaming 20-something Angelina Jolie, - A bleach-blonde Jonny Lee Miller (hubba hubba), - An ever awesome Matthew Lillard, who cranked his Lillardness up to 11, - A duo of DJ/hackers named Razor and Blade (feel free to cry), - An awesome and totally cliché GenX soundtrack, - "It's 1995 so we have to make an Eddie Vedder reference" (and it's totally awesome), - Fisher Stevens who acts out his entire part as if he's on steroids, - Did I mention Angelina Jolie? Does this movie have any basis in any realm of conceivable realism? Nope. Is this even what actual hacking looks like? Oh puh-lease! Is it everything you could wish for in an hour and a half of pleasurable suspension of disbelief? Absolutely. Hackers is sexy and silly and every good kind of bad. I gave you my recommendation. If you don't like this movie then there's nothing I can do about it. _(February 2017)_
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.
Quick Stats
6.4
TMDB Rating
1,507
Votes
1h 45m
Runtime
$20.0M
Budget
$7.6M
Box Office
38%
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Key Crew
DirectorIain Softley
WriterRafael Moreu
CinematographyAndrzej Sekula
ComposerSimon Boswell
EditorMartin Walsh
Production DesignJohn Beard
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SuftleyUnited ArtistsMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Critics & Reviews
2 featuredOutdated and more than a bit quirky, but a fun watch and a film that I honestly thought was hilarious.
Cast
Jonny Lee Miller
Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
Angelina Jolie
Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
Matthew Lillard
Emmanuelle Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
Jesse Bradford
Joey Pardella
Renoly Santiago
Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'
Laurence Mason
Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
Fisher Stevens
Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage
Lorraine Bracco
Margo
Wendell Pierce
S.S. Agent Richard Gill
Michael Gaston
S.S. Agent Bob
Marc Anthony
S.S. Agent Ray
Penn Jillette
Hal
Peter Y. Kim
Blade
Darren Lee
Razor
Alberta Watson
Lauren Murphy
