Hackers (1995)
Genre: Thriller / Action
Duration: 107 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Iain Softley
Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie and Jesse Bradford
IMDb score:
6,2 (81.363)
Releasedate: 14 September 1995
Hackers plot
"Their crime is curiosity."
A boy is banned from coming near a computer until he is 18 years old. At the age of 11, the boy crashed 1507 Wall Street computers, causing the New York index to drop 7 points. When the boy is an adult, he gets back into computers, and with his friends discovers that the security chief of a multinational company is building a dangerous virus.
Actors and actresses
Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
Emmanuelle Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
Joey Pardella
Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'
Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage
Margo
S.S. Agent Richard Gill
S.S. Agent Bob
Reviews & comments
Glennekeeeee
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- 304 messages
- 429 votes
the problem with these movies is that they get dated pretty quickly and hackers are no exception. you try to empathize with that era, but if you could only just stand on your feet then it is rather difficult to settle back in that time. yet hackers is not a complete setback and perhaps it was considered a nice thriller at the time. it's the typical teenage actors who are featured here, especially Angelina Jolie who, even as a half man, still manages to be sexy. for the rest the film looks nice but it is a bit too much of whatever came out that time and it doesn't stand out above anything
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Theunissen
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- 12279 messages
- 5519 votes
Nice to see this film for the first time and then because of the computer techniques used at the time (I grew up with it) such as modems that you had to dial in and floppy disks (in this case with 1.44 MB storage capacity 
) for data storage . It was also more or less the start of the Internet era (I can still remember very well that in 1996 I bought my first modem, with a 28k8 kbps speed, and thus made my first steps on the Internet) and it is now 20 years later. quite impressive to see how fast computer technology has developed. In that respect, this film is indeed very dated now.
Although the story about the dangerous virus (related to cargo ships) is pretty bland and the same goes for the execution (a few nice comic scenes here and there), the film is still somewhat entertaining to watch and that is mainly due to the then young (20 years old) Angelina Jolie (in the role of hacker Kate) who made her debut in the film world with a leading role. You could already see that she had talent and that she was also a beautiful woman. She can even be admired topless very quickly in this film. The rest of the cast didn't really appeal to me, such as protagonist Jonny Lee Miller (in the role of hacker Dade) and Fisher Stevens who plays the role of villain (developer virus).
Because of the nostalgia content, this film is nice to have seen (for those born after 1995 it might be a nice history lesson), but to be honest it doesn't offer much in terms of story and the film doesn't really captivate.
PS I think this film was sponsored by Coca Cola at the time, because that brand was sometimes very prominent in the picture (eg via a bottle and can that was deliberately portrayed).
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Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
Very wrong.
The film is indeed very dated, although even that should be taken with a grain of salt. It is in fact so over-the-top that it is nowhere a serious reflection of reality. So it's the hacker's "idea" that's dated rather than the computer stuff.
That is limited to very flashy, bland hack scenes with an electronic soundtrack and some techno-junk youth, to make it all a bit more "futuristic". The soundtrack itself is still nice, but the choice of songs is not exactly original either. With Orbital, The Prodigy and Underworld in the first fifteen minutes you know they didn't even do that much research to put together a soundtrack.
Acting is also lousy, luckily it is all very lightly presented, which saves the film a bit. That and some nice songs and loads of camp. But you really can't call this good.
2.0*
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