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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 770
Released: August 25, 1998 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
"Hackers" chronicles a group of teenage computer wizards whose practical jokes land them in a dangerous industrial-espionage plot.System Requirements:Widescreen format 16x9-enhanced Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) French (Dolby Stereo surround) Subtitles: English French and Spanish Eight-page trivia booklet theatrical trailer Included Trivia Booklet Interactive Menus Video Format: Widescreen (no AR specified) Enhanced for 16x9 TVs English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround French: Dolby Digital Surround Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 027616716927 Manufacturer No: 907169
Description of Hackers:
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 Williamson in Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic; their longing glances steam up the screen. --David Chute
Hackers Reviews:
Cult classic at it's best 
2008-05-19 - Ok, this is a cheesy movie. It glorifies the life of a hacker, and over-simplifies things so the audience doesn't get completely lost.
But the movie plays off of that. It's a classic, some will get it and will love it, others will not.
Either case, Angelina Jolie looks amazing back when she looked a little more natural.
great movie
2008-02-02 - yeah, this is one of many angelina jolie movies that was pretty good, other good actors in it too!
Sheer bad fun 
2007-12-17 - Hokey hokey hokey. Dear God, I'm glad I didn't watch this when it first came out. The hilarity would be nowhere NEAR as side splitting before I got a bit more in tune with my techno side.
Great cast (and yes, I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't think Angelina Jolie is the shizzy), hilarious dialogue, and a "just this side of almost approaching semi-plausible" premise, coupled with a great score and some spiffy graphics and you have a good flick to watch whilst drunk, high, or just in the mood for some amusement. The addition of the delicious Jesse Bradford only makes it that much better.
Of particular amusement factor are the views "inside the computer." Damn, I can see why they opted for fanciful high-tech graphics rather than a bland succession of ASCII scrolling across the screen.
So bad it's good.
I love it
2007-12-14 - I really enjoy this movie. Yeah sure, that's not the way hackers do their stuff, but its a movie!! it has to be fun!, and this is fun.
The underground atmosphere is really cool.
Love it!
Hackers is Classic Film
2007-07-20 - As someone who grew up with computers, and has a fairly well grounded background in the tech sector. I find this movie to be a classic tech flick, yeah there are part that are cheesy. However I find that the story itself is solid. This is a movie I can watch over and over and never really grow board with it.
I will have to admit some of the phraseology is questionable and at times misplaced. However I don't feel that such gaps would harm the overall story that the movie is trying to tell. Although the fact that it has Angelina Jolie in it doesn't hurt either. Lets face it even then she was hot.
This is just my view of it, hope this helps ya.
