- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 12
- Studio: MGM
- DVD Release Date: 31 Oct 2005
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000AYSLP2
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 124,316 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ("By the time they realize the truth, we'll be long gone with all the money.") For all its postmodern trappings the movie is working with sub-prehistoric storytelling tools. But it does succeed on one level, as a movie about adolescent bonding and alienation. The director, Iain Softley, helmed the Beatles-in-Hamburg biopic Backbeat, and he seems to have an instinct for the emotions that pull kids together around common interests and the insecurities that drive them apart. The familiar crises of loyalty and betrayal have an ache of real loneliness. It doesn't hurt that the two stars, Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy in Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic; their longing glances steam up the screen. --David Chute
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Hackers is a thrilling, vibrant journey into the world of cyber-culture and the computer hacker. Dade Murphy (Johnny Lee Miller) is a shy, socially inept computer whizz-kid who moves to New York with his mother, and soon mixes up with the ballsy Kate Libby (a young Angelina Jolie) and a gang of elite hackers (including Matthew Liliard) in a major electronic heist. These group of characters are the heart and soul of the movie, and it's hard not to enjoy their exploits as they take you through a subculture that has barely been touched by other mainstream movies - some people don't know it even exists. If you're one of those, you're in for a shock.
Director Ian Softley handles preceedings well, and even blurs the line between fantasy and reality by showing how the hackers see the world as a labyrinth of computer connections. The film has a harsh sense of humour too, and demonstrates just how powerful a computer hacker can be. The film also boasts a terrific soundtrack, featuring the best of Underworld, The Prodigy and Leftfield among others.
Although the dialogue and plot can be dodgy in some moments, Hackers is definitely an original and well-crafted movie adventure.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
As a film, Hackers is far from perfect. Extended techno cut scenes that go no further than being painfully melodramatic, unrealistic computer graphics and annoying side-kick characters such as Cereal Killer who, though he has his moments, badly lets down his more adept counterparts. So why do we like the film as much as we do? A whole generation of kids were spawned from this film that who suddenly decided hacking was cool and dismissed their preconceptions about seeing nerdy people mumbling incoherently from behind a C++ manual. Instead, they remember a bunch of attractive teenagers who loved good music, dressed in technicolour and effortlessly negotiated NYC in rollerblades. We're drawn to the film's main characters - Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. Both highly acclaimed actors, who enjoyed excellent on-screen chemistry, which continued after filming and eventually resulted in their well-documented marriage. Both make the most of an uneven script, creating an exciting relationship involving power-struggles, confusion and uncertainty. Jolie, especially, translates her own traits very effectively into the drama - outspoken about everything (including her bisexuality and love of S&M), energetic and angry. Miller and Jolie carry the film, and transform it into something you love, but never quite know why, especially given that its flaws so often hinder the action. There is the soundtrack as well, of course. Widely considered to be amongst the best ever released, the tunes match the vitality of the two main protagonists, and manage to obscure, at least temporarily, Cereal Killer's hyperactivity, or The Plague's melodrama and uninspired performance. We remember Hackers as something great, inexplicably, and just a little reluctantly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is probably one of my favourites. Even if the technological side of things isn't true to life, it doesn't matter. The cast is beautiful to look at, the trance/techno soundtrack is superb, and the visuals are brilliant. By the way, if you buy this then you also have to get the soundtrack, it's definately worth it.
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I love it love it love it
watch this film alone, get first a laptop with internet connection and follow the story.
GOOD OLD FILM FOR GIGS AND COMPUTER LOVERS.
GOOD OLD FILM FOR GIGS AND COMPUTER LOVERS.
Published 4 months ago by Tooxowcade
Inspired a generation
To those giving this film 2 stars, this movie isn't great because of the acting or the plot or the dialogs, this movie is great because it inspired a generation of IT enthusiasts... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Cybrid
breasts
"Get on the internet! Send out a major distress signal! Hackers of the world unite!" A small sample of the inane dialogue on offer as a bunch of irritating young people with silly... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. Andrew Elliott
My favorite movie
Hackers of the world unite
One of my favorite movies, gave me all the inspirations to get into the UNIX world, and study all the books of the rainbow :)
Specially... Read more
One of my favorite movies, gave me all the inspirations to get into the UNIX world, and study all the books of the rainbow :)
Specially... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Eddie Vanderloot
Me Rambling as Usual
When I think back to the mid 90s, I remember what fun we all had when Windows 95 replaced Windows 3.1. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by Cactus
hahaha funny movie
of all the things i lost, i miss my mind the most !
you gotta stop letting you mama dress you man
and so on
you gotta stop letting you mama dress you man
and so on
Published on 13 Aug 2009 by S. Sabina
Hackers
Great Film, really quirky and lots of fun, very retro, check out the computers and the phone link up, ahhhh we all remember those days. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2009 by S. Cantlow
A true classic and must-see
Their only crime was curiosity
Probably THE best film from the 90s. I've lost count of the number of times I've watched this since I got the DVD (if I don't watch... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2006 by Kerry
Computers on the TV
For me at least this is the original computer movie, a few have followed and a few came before, but this is the defining movie. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2005 by aceadrian
!-->My Favourite Movie<--!
Hackers is my favourite movie of all time!
-Their only crime was curiosity-
It is impossible to find a movie nowdays as good as those from the 90's. Read more
-Their only crime was curiosity-
It is impossible to find a movie nowdays as good as those from the 90's. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2004 by G
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