Hackers is a 1995 American teen techno-thriller crime film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Jesse Bradford, Lorraine Bracco, Fisher Stevens and Jay Winters.
Synopsis
A teenage hacker finds himself framed for the theft of millions of dollars from a major corporation. Master hacker Dade Murphy, aka Zero Cool, aka Crash Override, has been banned from touching a keyboard for seven years after crashing over 1,500 Wall Street computers at the age of 11. Now keen to get back in front of a monitor, he finds himself in more trouble than ever.
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Matt Brunson (Creative Loafing) | Cutting-edge ideas can’t quite compensate for a banal storyline. Full Review |
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Austin Trunick (Under the Radar) | Rarely do movies try-and fail-as hard to be cool as Hackers. Full Review |
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Dustin Putman (TheBluFile.com) | An onslaught of lame plotting, dopey writing and cornball histrionics. Full Review |
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Steven Rea (Philadelphia Inquirer) | Hackers isn’t a very good movie, but it’s a darn sight more fun than The Net. Full Review |
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Gary Thompson (Philadelphia Daily News) | The real crime of cyberpunks is that they have encouraged Hollywood to make several bad movies aimed at exploiting this new lifestyle niche. Full Review |
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Roger Hurlburt (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) | A disjointed yet generally enjoyable stint at the movies, even for those who don’t know an infobahn from a nanosecond. Full Review |
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Jay Boyar (Orlando Sentinel) | 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. Full Review |
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Michael Wilmington (Chicago Tribune) | 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. Full Review |
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Bruce Diones (New Yorker) | The story is negligible, but it offers the same order of fun as a good rock video: the marriage of images and music. Full Review |
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Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly) | 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. Full Review |
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(Film4) | Silly but enjoyable. Full Review |
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Caroline Westbrook (Empire Magazine) | A plot thinner than an LCD monitor doesn’t prevent the bombastic fun, and the young cast help it hurtle along. Full Review |
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Maitland McDonagh (TV Guide’s Movie Guide) | Even if you bought DOS for Dummies, there’s nothing in HACKERS that will stretch your brain. Full Review |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader) | 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. Full Review |
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Joe Leydon (Variety) | There is a great deal more style than substance here. Full Review |
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Stefan Birgir Stefansson (sbs.is) | stupid and entertaining, to some nostalgia degree |
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JoBlo (JoBlo’s Movie Emporium) | You gotta love some of the horrible dialogue in this flick. Full Review |
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(Time Out) | The sappy ending’s hard to take, but the on-line showdown between The Plague, the Secret Service and the united worldwide community of hackers is nail-biting. Full Review |
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Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com) | As good as a feature length music video can possibly be. |
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Janet Maslin (New York Times) | Though this scheme involves loads of important data, it manages to sound dopey all the same. Full Review |
