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Hackers [Region 2] | ![Hackers [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W8F6ZKD2L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Iain Softley
Actors: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $37.21
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Rating:  313 reviews
Sales Rank: 297891
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
EAN: 4010232003379
ASIN: B00004RZ0F
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1995
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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 Williamson 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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 hack the planet March 3, 2010
hadouken
Not realistic hacking in anyway. This movie is just for people who have fond memories of it and like a good laugh from back in the day. For some reason it' just so entertaining. Not even in a so bad it's good way.... it's just good. If you want realistic hacking movie go somewhere else like 'wargames' or something. It is funny to see how they hack, a lot of memorable lines and good quotes. The 90's were the best. Hack the planet!!!
An Asome movie for its time!!! February 5, 2010
ASulli (Lewiston, Maine USA)
I think that movie is AMAZING for its time,
in my eyes its a really good classic one of my favs.
and Angelina Jolie is so hott!!!
2 all those others who posted bad reviews,
sorry it doesn't teach you how to hack,
it's a Sci-Fi Movie not a documentary.
Nostalgia at its best!! December 3, 2009
Molly Young
This movie is a perfect example of those films you watched without knowing how much you liked them until someone asks you about it. I just saw it again recently and it's still as amazing as the first time. Plus, it's a young Angelina Jolie! It's really worth seeing for all you movie buffs out there.
Corporate hacker villian on a skateboard October 15, 2009
Michigoon (Mid-MI)
This is a review that for me can be summed up in one line, as stated in the title. The film's primary antagonist is an evil hacker (Fisher Stevens), black trenchcoat and all, who works for a major corporation... and also rides a skateboard. Just think about that for a moment. One part of you should be recoiling from the bad filmmaking, the other half should be saying something like "oh, the 90's... right...". (Er, and Angelina Jolie is really hot in this as well, and that deserves mention).
But come on- this super evil corporate guy who wears black and has it out for our heroes... also rides a skateboard. Yes, this is a great movie. I might clarify- this is a great movie in the b-movie way.
Our movie stars... a hacker. Johnny Lee Miller actually does a pretty good job with this role, with his usual intensity. Supporting him are a few names that would quickly rise to higher fame following this film- particularly Angeline Jolie (who is really hot in this movie, did I mention that?) and Matthew Lillard, who both play very eccentric hacker prototypes in unique ways. Opposing our hero are Fisher Stevens (on the skateboard) and Penn Jillette (insert here a joke about how no magician could save this script). The acting really does tend to be pretty good- it's the situations and "hacker" cliches that really make (or break) this movie.
First up, everyone knows that when you use a computer you see a 3d animation that looks like a blueprint of New York on your screen, right? And when you want to do anything on a computer, you pound keys as fast as you can and the faster you press the better the results, yes? These elements are in extreme force here. Also seen are corporations being really evil just because corporations are evil, and lower-end goons falls to three-stooges-esque verbal and physical gags, but all of that sort of misses the point.
In the end, what this really is, is a glorious celebration of hacker culture and the misconceptions surrounding it. There's a tremendous amount of this movie that's actually very well-researched and smart, such as "human engineering" techniques that wouldn't really enter the mainstream for some time. Then again, there's also heaps of the aforementioned cliches and general Hollywood ridiculousness. In that sense however, this movie is a real cultural icon, chock full of obvious marketing ploys to try to make the movie look hip for the new generation (which is probably a trademarked slogan now that I think about it).
So Hackers is a fun movie. Modern movie fans might equate it to an experience like Zoolander in terms of good fun that's not meant to be taken too seriously. But there's really a decent emotional core about real hacker culture buried in here. Not the media image of kids who break into bank accounts to steal money from innocent strangers, but the real hackers- the kids who are bored and made fun of in school, who find out that computers just might be the only thing they're really good at, and the computer-using culture is the only place where they feel they fit in. This movie has heart in that respect, and goes on to top off that bit of heart with a lot of over-the-top fun and have I mentioned how attractive Angelina Jolie is in this movie?
Pick this movie up today if you like poking fun at B-movies, and you'll have a blast. Pick it up if you used to be one of those downtrodden kids who turned to computers for escapism, and you'll get a lot of that escapism here. Pick up this flick if you think that computer hackers and villains on skateboards sound like dumb ideas worth making fun of. A lot of people can have a lot of fun with this one, and I recommend it highly.
Early Angelina October 11, 2009
C. F. Mullins (Springfield, OH)
This is a period piece in computer-geek cinema. It is a classic story. It is a must-have for any Angelina Jolie collection though it is pretty tame compared to her later work.
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