Hackers

1995

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller

89
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 47 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 80403 80.4K

new york city computer hacker computer virus virtual reality prank

Plot summary

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.

Director

Iain Softley Photo
Iain Softley

Top cast

Angelina Jolie Photo
Angelina Jolie as Kate
Penn Jillette Photo
Penn Jillette as Hal
Mick O'Rourke Photo
Mick O'Rourke as Phone Repairman
Matthew Lillard Photo
Matthew Lillard as Cereal
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
967.14 MB
1280*546
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 11
1.94 GB
1920*820
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 85

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Scouserboy 7 / 10

Brilliant Movie

I watched this movie by accident but i am glad i did. it is not a well known movie but i think it is great. the plot is stupid and unbelieveable but it is really enjoyable. i am not a big fan of Johnny Lee Miller but even in this he is good. it also is the first time i saw Angelina Jolie who in this is good. in all good performances all round and good movie
Reviewed by great_sphinx_42 5 / 10

Compelling Subject Matter, Wasted With Cheesy Plot

I think this is a movie that can only be described as mediocre. It's not embarrassingly bad, but it's far from great. First, it's good points: energy, hackers make intriguing subjects, and fairly interesting, likable protagonists. It's bad points: a "Superman"-like plot master-minded by a supremely cheesy villain. The effects got annoying after a while, and there was plenty of "information" about computers that was not accurate. I"m not sorry I saw it, but I wish someone would make a movie that would be a correct portrayal of hackers. Then again, computer technology goes so fast that such a movie would likely be very dated before its release.
Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Your Teenage Hacker Is Not Cool

Teenage hackers against corporate thieves! Can they crack the secret behind the Da Vinci Virus in time to keep themselves out of jail and spoil the bad guys.Although I don't know any Stuyvesant High School students of the 1990s -- except for a niece who dropped out -- I do know several of an earlier vintage and computer hackers. None of them were buff, well groomed, acne-free, and always with enough money to buy the latest computer equipment. They were physical wrecks, socially inept, and perpetually broke. One of them remarked to me of Sandra Bullock in The Net (released the same year), "No one eats take-out pizza every night and has thighs like that."Of course, that's reality, not Hollywood, and no one would pay to see a bunch of people like that on the big screen. So we get Johnny Lee Miller and Angela Jolie, instead of John Candy and Shelley Duvall.Lots of cool CGI and mean, greedy, and clueless older people. It's very watchable, if not particularly believable. With Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco, Felicity Huffman, and Penn Gillette.
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