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Hackers
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by MGM/Ua Studios
Sales Rank: 44650
Price: $94.99
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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 <i>WarGames</i>. 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 <i>Backbeat</i>, 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 <i>Trainspotting</i>) and Angelina Jolie (<i>Gia</i>), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic; their longing glances steam up the screen. <i>--David Chute</i>
Viewer Reviews
With Angelina Jolie officially a super star this movie is becoming a
geek cult classic like TronTron.
The graphics are good and filming is nice.
It is the kids on the outside against the lame
straights on the inside, with a joker in the deck.
In the late 70's poor people couldn't get online: it just wasn't possible without megabucks.
By 1998 it became possible for ordinary people to dial up.
So movies about geek exploits became about myths of super-hackers.
It is the "wish you could" type of movie where the geek gets the super chick.
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