The Great Hack

2019

Action / Biography / Documentary / History

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 67% · 55 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 25701 25.7K

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Plot summary

Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

Director

Karim Amer Photo
Karim Amer

Top cast

Donald Trump Photo
Donald Trump as Self
Hillary Clinton Photo
Hillary Clinton as Self
Seth Meyers Photo
Seth Meyers as Self
Nigel Farage Photo
Nigel Farage as Self - Pro-Brexit Politician
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1.02 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
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2.11 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jpmontague 7 / 10

The bots are working overtime for this one

Have a look at many of the reviewers who have given this film 1 star - many usernames with random collection of digits at the end - click on their review history and you'll see they've submitted a small handful of reviews, all either "liberal propaganda" accusations or extremely brief reviews of politically-neutral films just to create the impression of a real user account. I guess this film touched a nerve! Overall the film gave a solid account of the workings of Cambridge Analytica, but I do agree that it was a little uncritical of the morally repugnant Brittany Kaiser. The transformation of the internet from an excellent research tool into a propaganda machine where the most reliable content is locked behind firewalls is a sad inevitability of this world. Who knows what the answer is? Switch off your devices and go for a walk, I guess.
Reviewed by jmccrmck-65172 8 / 10

Nothing New, though we'd sooner not look.

Read the critical reviews here and ask yourself to what use we have put the hyper powerful computing power ,infinite memory storage and vast amounts of OUR DATA controlled by , literally, a handful of people. Granted it's mostly for commerce, selling us stuff, until it becomes selling our data to people or entities who clearly don't have our best interests in mind or at heart. And this handful of people cares not one wit to whom they are selling our data or what their ultimate aims might be. ??? leftist propaganda??? One need only look at the decidedly anti democratic trends sweeping the globe to understand how powerful the manipulation of people through the use of the data they surrender, either willing or not is. This film attempts to illuminate the dangers of weaponizing our data and using it against us to undermine democracy and how vulnerable we are to that sort of manipulation. There are real world consequences , Myanmar for one and those are bloody consequences. Propaganda is certainly the familiar domain of the fascists who currently hold sway. across the globe. Despite what the reviews on offer here proclaim this film is hardly propaganda , far from it.
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