Hackers (1995)

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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)

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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)

18. Luna6ix's DVDs (public: Luna6ix)

19. Half-view (public: cajerio)

20. 1995: Year in Review (public: polanski28)

21. My Movie Collection (public: elhenzo)

22. Friday Night Movie Funtime (public: Ununnilium)

23. Unofficially Beating The World Record For Most Films Watched in a Year (public: EsperHart)

24. My ratings (public: tpbradbury)

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Stars	User	Rating
9	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.
5	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.
4	BillyShears	65 _42nd
PG Bubz. No idea what was going on during this just sat there smiling and nodding at the screen.
3	ServantDagon	15 _1st
THE TWO MOST USED PASSWORDS ARE GOD AND SEX
2	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.
2	hank	80 _66th
I don't care what they say about this movie - it's awesome.
2	hojo	85 _71st
While most of the movie is incorrect in a technological aspect, it's still pretty good. Nice soundtrack.
2	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.
2	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!
2	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.
2	purgatos	49 _15th
I am hardly impressed that these heroes managed to stop one of the most inept villains of all time.
2	demiurge	76 _60th
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.
2	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.
2	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.
2	BadFurDay	7 _75th
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.
2	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.
1	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.
1	SpiderCrusoe	35 _19th
Quite a bad representation of actual computer use, but amusing.
1	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.
1	kranksta	70 _39th
It's bad, It's ridiculous, but it's fun. awesome soundtrack as well.
1	TheDiceman	40 _19th
Poor.
1	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.
1	easydiff	81 _89th
It's not about hacking the planet, it's about the friends we made along the way.
1	Skenkere	59 _37th
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.
1	absentis	80 _69th
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...
1	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.
1	WoozyB	85 _73rd
It was just that technology-loving spirit of the 90s. In a teen movie.
1	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.
1	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!
1	Fill	65 _43rd
HACK THE GIBSON. A friend and I pretty much greeted each other by saying this for a good while.
1	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.
1	chemtrails	60 _53rd
Yep
1	overrated	19 _11th
OF COURSE the Japanese hacker is made up like a geisha. That makes so much sense to me.
1	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.
1	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.
1	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).
1	Naypalm	87 _90th
So accurate.
1	Trooth	43 _14th
The most laughable representation of computers since Weird Science
1	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.
1	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.
1	Pickle_Man	35 _7th
One of at least two 1995 cyberpunk features to quote 1 Corinthians 13:11.

Average Percentile 38.1% from 3229 Ratings