Hackers (1995)

A neophyte "hacker" becomes the target of the FBI after he unknowingly taps into a high-tech embezzling scheme which could cause a horrific environmental disaster in this suspenseful drama. (MGM)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Iain Softley
Written By: Rafael Moreu
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, Penn Jillette, Jesse Bradford, Wendell Pierce, Jonny Lee Miller, Lorraine Bracco, Felicity Huffman, Marc Anthony, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Country: USA
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Hackers belongs to 24 collections
1. boobs (collaborative: moderated by Pickpocket - 53 stars)
2. Onion AV Club: The New Cult Canon (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 29 stars)
3. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
4. So bad they are good (collaborative: moderated by cagedwisdom - 9 stars)
5. Internet/computers (collaborative: moderated by djross - 8 stars)
6. How Did This Get Made? (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 8 stars)
7. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 5 stars)
8. Cult Classics (collaborative: moderated by Jellysauce - 4 stars)
9. We Hate Movies podcast (collaborative: moderated by NBD Rab - 4 stars)
10. Cyberpunk (collaborative: moderated by PerryStroika - 4 stars)
11. Hacker (collaborative - 3 stars)
12. Vaporwave aesthetics (collaborative: moderated by Ghalea - 3 stars)
13. 90s teen films (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 1 star)
14. jj-lib-movies (public: junggle - 1 star)
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16. The Prodigy (collaborative)
17. 1995 Wide Releases U.S. (collaborative: moderated by Roman_Herbom)
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19. Half-view (public: cajerio)
20. 1995: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
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Barthalen | 52 30th |
Had I seen this in my (pre)teen years, I would've thought this was cool, hip, even slightly romantic and completely true in regards to how hacking/the internet works. I would've crushed hard on Vulcan Jolie and thought dressing/behaving as an utter douche was acceptable. Seeing this for the first time in the pre-apocalypse year of 2017, I can only laugh and cringe. So deliciously '90's Hollywood' that it almost works as a hilarious, reality-avoiding security blanket.
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Paxton | 38 8th |
I have a rule of thumb that might not be the best way to determine a movie's worth, but it rarely fails me. If Fisher Stevens is in it, it isn't good.
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BillyShears | 65 42nd |
PG Bubz. No idea what was going on during this just sat there smiling and nodding at the screen.
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ServantDagon | 15 1st |
THE TWO MOST USED PASSWORDS ARE GOD AND SEX
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TheDenizen | 35 14th |
Angelina Jolie sports one of the worst haircuts ever in this third rate action/computer hacking flick which is riddled with dated and ridiculously inaccurate technojargon.
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2 | hank | 80 66th |
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I don't care what they say about this movie - it's awesome.
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2 | hojo | 85 71st |
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While most of the movie is incorrect in a technological aspect, it's still pretty good. Nice soundtrack.
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twincinema | 60 36th |
Films about technology in the 90s will always put a smile on my face. Matthew Lillard is now my fashion icon. You can actually earn a Computer Science degree just by watching this.
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Anomaly | 26 7th |
God, this is horrible. Hilarious - unintentionally - but still horrible. Nobody who made this has any idea how computers work. WOAH LOOK AT ALL THE NUMBERS AND EQUATIONS THAT MUST MEAN SOMEONE'S GETTING HACKED!
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recklessmess | 85 87th |
I'm a little embarrassed, and I apologize to anybody offended by the high score here. I hate that I love this movie. It came out in my formative years, around the time when I was totally a computer nerd. So I'm a total hypocrite, since the way computers are portrayed here is totally ridiculous.
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purgatos | 49 15th |
I am hardly impressed that these heroes managed to stop one of the most inept villains of all time.
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2 | demiurge | 76 60th |
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Even less realistic than The Net or Swordfish. However, there's something about the cyberpunk atmosphere and the overall casualness of the movie that makes it fun to watch.
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hsncrspywl | 56 23rd |
Well. A film where eh...Fisher Stevens and Wendell Pierce chew the scenery to a great degree and the aesthetics of the film mix garish clothing and techno music with practical effects highlighting ridiculous fictional computer GUIs. I have no real clue what the plot is. Incoherent, messy, and still predictable. Gets by on it's great sense of unique style and a banging soundtrack. And a good, if underutilised, cast.
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QuinlanLJ | 61 27th |
More than 20 years later this film is still pretty fun. There are certain laugh out loud moments and you just have to feel that 90's nostalgia. It's not really a good film, but it's an enjoyable one. And Angelina Jolie with short-hair? Yes, please. Her alone gets +10 from me, it would be a 51 without her.
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2 | BadFurDay | 7 75th |
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Shitting on this movie because the hacking isn't realistic is like shitting on Indiana Jones because the archaeology scenes aren't a guy sitting in an office reading books for days. Hackers defined what I considered cool as a kid, and is still really entertaining to watch as an adult. Plus, that soundtrack. The sound of the 90s, if you can call it a sound. Dumb, but quality.
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thornae | 90 83rd |
Okay, so the technology side of things is (with a few exceptions) unusually bad, even for Hollywood - but what this film captured was the essence of the *culture* of the hacking community, as it viewed itself from the inside. It's also got a pretty decent soundtrack.
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TripleSH | 13 8th |
If real computer hacking resembled the Atari-looking horsecrap this movie portrays, we would all be dead from a nuclear holocaust by now.
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SpiderCrusoe | 35 19th |
Quite a bad representation of actual computer use, but amusing.
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dere | 75 52nd |
The neon-parties and all that the low-tech hacking is now, more than ever, entertaining to look at thirteen years later. Has it already been thirteen years. My lord. My sweet lord.
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kranksta | 70 39th |
It's bad, It's ridiculous, but it's fun. awesome soundtrack as well.
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TheDiceman | 40 19th |
Poor.
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krytonix | 60 32nd |
I remember loving this in middle school... I would probably have given it an 85 at the time, but I've seen it since then and my oh my how things have changed. It still has a superb soundtrack, however.
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easydiff | 81 89th |
It's not about hacking the planet, it's about the friends we made along the way.
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1 | Skenkere | 59 37th |
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This movie is basically downright bad, but it's so damn goofy that I can't help but like it. It's just so 90's, and even if I'm laughing at it more than with it, it's still enjoyable.
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1 | absentis | 80 69th |
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Cheesy film with a great soundtrack. You really do have to leave your brain behind (if your a programmer) but apart from that it is a fun ride...
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Tripwyre | 25 11th |
It's got a pretty good cast, all of whom at this point probably wish this movie didn't exist. But it does, and it's gleefully awful, its depiction of technology and the internet were DOA as soon as it hit theatres. This makes for a lot of unintentional hilarity, and the movie is a lot of fun for all the wrong reasons. A camp classic of the 90s.
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1 | WoozyB | 85 73rd |
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It was just that technology-loving spirit of the 90s. In a teen movie.
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Boobjuice | 20 21st |
Oh lord. You know, I know next-to-nothing about computers, and I could tell you that this idiot movie is wholly inaccurate and oversimplified. I wanna slap Matthew Lillard's face.
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Mohko | 75 72nd |
Oh the joy of nostalgia! What happens in this movie? Hackers type slowly, computers look cooler inside than they did in Tron or Jurassic Park, Angelina Jolie has some crazy outfits, awesome soundtrack and Fisher Stevens makes a very unthreathing villain who doesn't know how to skateboard. Which reminds me of my secret dream where I travel to an alternative dimension where Michael Wincott has replaced Fisher Stevens in Hackers. Trust your technolust! Hack the planet!
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1 | Fill | 65 43rd |
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HACK THE GIBSON. A friend and I pretty much greeted each other by saying this for a good while.
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FunkyAstro | 75 74th |
Again a nostalgic "B-Movie" that I like a lot more than anyone should. Just so my score won't confuse anyone; this movie is awful.
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chemtrails | 60 53rd |
Yep
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overrated | 19 11th |
OF COURSE the Japanese hacker is made up like a geisha. That makes so much sense to me.
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misterlizard | 80 86th |
One of the most hilariously shit-bad films of the 90s. It should probably score about 20%, but there's so much guilty pleasure involved. It's like watching a teacher who grew up in an age of punched card computers trying to get down with the kids. In its defense, the soundtrack is pretty bitchin', and Angelina Jolie is a pretty hot Romulan.
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dunbar | 40 8th |
Ahahaha, the cheese, they hacked into my brain and now it's full of feta. Stay tuned as the moronic movie interpretation of hacking continues a la The Core and Swordfish.
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hellboy76 | 48 15th |
Ridiculous. This is what happens when people who write movies about computers, know nothing about computers. Cast is likable enough (except for Fisher Stevens playing a baddie).
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Naypalm | 87 90th |
So accurate.
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Trooth | 43 14th |
The most laughable representation of computers since Weird Science
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cpreview | 7 58th |
OK, so its not near future, but these kids have the glorified underground hacker thing down. In Hackers, every computer is networked and available for hacking. Hackers gives us a plethora of cool computer imagery cut scenes, 3D buildings serving as file share stores, and lots of underground punk visuals. These visuals are packed into a nicely paced movie that makes the outlandish story of high stakes theft, environmental destruction and hacker antiheroes fun to watch.
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metalhank | 62 51st |
I think I just seen bits of this flick close to when it was released and didn't think much of it. Watched the full movie recently and thought it was pretty good even though the tech is clearly dated and probably at the time pretty far-fetched or inaccurate. A very young Jolie is still a joy and Lilliard already has his quirky style going on, which actually works well in this flick.
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1 | Pickle_Man | 35 7th |
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One of at least two 1995 cyberpunk features to quote 1 Corinthians 13:11.
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Average Percentile 38.1% from 3229 Ratings | ![]() |