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Overall Rating
3

Awesome30.61%
Worth A Look: 12.24%
Average: 10.2%
Pretty Bad: 20.41%
Total Crap: 26.53%

2 reviews, 37 user ratings


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by Kernelcrispy

"Film is truth, 24 times a second. - Jean Luc Godard"
5 stars

YAH, YAH, YAH... SO IT'S NOT REALISTIC, NEITHER IS CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THRID KIND, BUT THEY'RE BOTH DAMN FUCKIN' FUN!

Every review I've ever read about this movie bags on it for not being "realistic". Tell ya what, go to a movie store, and look for Hackers. What section do you find it in? Action/Sci-Fi (Emphasis on SCI-FI). Do you know what the Sci-Fi part stands for? Science Fiction. Which means a work of fiction based loosely on Science fact. Granted, it was very, very loosely based on Science, but hey, that wouldn't be very appealing if it was white screens and black text on a terminal emulator would it?
NO. This movie was a fun, well-acted (yes, well-acted) movie, with a good plot, Watch the movie from the standpoint of a person who has a vague idea of how to operate a computer and you will find that, that is exactly what many people view "hackers" as. I bet you would have like the movie if it was called, "COOL GUYS AND A HOT CHICK, THAT GO TO RAVES AND FUCK WITH PEOPLES COMPUTERS" sounds intriguing, huh? Well maybe not, but toy with the idea. I'm going to go out on a limb, with the fear of public castration in the back of my mind, and say that this is one of my favorite movies.

ACCURATE? NO, HELL NO. FUN? FUCKIN A!

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originally posted: 09/09/98 12:00:56
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User Comments

12/06/09 Jeff Wilder Computerwise full of holes big enough to fit a 50 GB HD. But entertaining enough. 4 stars
6/08/09 art COOL! 4 stars
2/17/06 Jeff K OMG OMG THSI MOV1E IS SI TEH L337 !!!111 I WAN 2 HAX TEH G1BS0N JUST LIEK CRESHOVARIIDE !!1 1 stars
1/20/06 cheesie dudette f***** awesome -absoloutley(is that spelt right?) brilliant-all u dudes hav 2 c it 5 stars
8/23/05 ES I knew Jolie was trouble from the get go. This film is everything that's wrong with movies 1 stars
7/20/05 OhhWell So bad, you just have to watch it. stupid sterotyping and bad acting. 1 stars
2/03/05 Jaime Astorga If you forget it's unrealistic and it calls crackers hackers, it's actually a good movie. 4 stars
10/26/04 Felix Cruz Excelent Movie 5 stars
7/10/04 Kate Hackers is the best for me (full of good music!) 5 stars
5/01/04 Quentin Beck Pretty neat actually. Just some crazy pre-matrix technostuff. 3 stars
1/13/04 thejames Nothing to do with reality, but one of the best movies ever! 5 stars
5/15/03 Zach That bad? I thought it did better. Fisher Stevens sure is different than in Short Circuit 5 stars
4/06/03 n/a One of the worst movies I've ever seen, except a bit of the music. 1 stars
3/30/03 puncH's_girL actually not a great scenario but a nice teenslash..won2t regret 2 call it awesome 5 stars
3/28/03 Film Dude I've seen better written episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway. 1 stars
3/05/03 blue young this movie is absolute crap, only watch due 2 extreme circumstances (forced 2) 1 stars
2/07/03 123 taking out the realistic factor, this movie is quite fun 3 stars
1/23/03 gomi totally unrealistic, but fscking fun. 5 stars
10/03/02 Jason THIS MOVIE ROCKS, not a bit of it is realistic, BUT WHO CARES 5 stars
6/12/02 Hulahula At least the soundtrack rocks! 3 stars
6/04/02 Kyle THIS was Angelina Jolie's first movie? Not surprising. 1 stars
12/30/01 sarafina dear god save me from the nineties 1 stars
8/26/01 Monster W. Kung Lame! J. L. Miller might have been in Trainspotting, but this sucks. 2 stars
7/28/01 Steve & echo "Worth watching once, then it just sucks." 2 stars
4/02/01 Jesse L Angelina is a hot chick and a lame actress 2 stars
3/24/01 karla buenoyo creo que johny lee miller es adorable,guapo y ademas tiene un lindo trasero. 1 stars
10/17/00 Dan Best thing about this is it brougt Ms. Jolie to my attention. Sadly, Matt Lillards in it. 1 stars
10/16/00 TIM CAN'T STAND MATTHEW LILLARD... BUT IT WAS GENERALLY DECENT. 4 stars
9/23/00 Chris M. Way underrated. Sure it's a bunch of bs but it's fun. 4 stars
8/09/00 lathamj bunch of interesting misfits, sexy too 4 stars
2/29/00 haris aposporis best movie ever about hacking and very cult. great psycho atmosphere, customes and music 5 stars
1/10/00 Will what the hell was that? 1 stars
6/15/99 Dylan expected more, retained less. a big dissapointment. 2 stars
3/18/99 Max Bernstein The only thing funnier (in that stupid way) is stupid computer-ignorant people 1 stars
11/17/98 Jules Good gawd, I didn't hate this one. 3 stars
10/24/98 grunter shallow style; movie about that guy with the line with the funny stuff . . . 3 stars
10/18/98 Tuxedo Steve Fucking hell. ;-( 1 stars
IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS FILM, RATE IT!
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