Hackers (DVD)

...just unlucky. OVERALL: === Hackers is a film I’d actually forgotten about for a while. I first saw it on video not long after it first came out, and hadn’t seen it since until I was browsing on play.com and spotted it in a bargain section, and duly bought the DVD. It’s a very funny and entertaining movie, with slick direction, good writing, an excellent cast, and a phenomenal soundtrack. It’s actually one of the most well-thought-out and well-designed ...
...to the Internet Movie Database for some of the info I used here http://www.imdb.com And Hackers is available from play.com for the princely sum of £9.99, or as part of a “3 for £20" offer http://www.play.com No computers were harmed in the writing of this op..... ...

superpricee 13.02.2003 · Read full review
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...a Saturday afternoon sat watching Hackers on DVD with Tash giving me a running commentary on how it had a great sound-track and how some of the scenes were just ‘great scenes’ - that should have been annoying, but the movie was to use Tash’s word ‘just so cheesy its good’. The Plot ====== Simple really Dade Murphy (AKA Crash Override, Zero Cool and played by Johnny Lee-Miller) is a hacker kid - when he was just 10 years old he was found guilty ...
...Meeting up with several fellow hackers Joey (who’s too hopeless to think of a hacker-name), Emmanuel (Cereal Killer played by Matthew Lilliard of Scream and Scooby Doo fame), Paul (aka Lord Nikon played by Laurence Mason) and Ramon (aka Phantom Phreak played by Renoly Santiago) before long he finds the FBI on his back after being set-up for hacking a major Oil-shipping firms computers which control all their tankers. Needless to say what follows ...

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...with a lot of other hackers like him. Being eighteen now, he has the privilege of using computers and touch screen phones. He had also moved to New York City for a new life. But then the part of his hacking brain had started up again, and so he starts hacking into peoples personnel files, and gets into competition with Kate “Acid burn” Libby ( a younger Angelina Jolie), betting that if he wins, he takes her out on a date, with her wearing a dress, ...
...a problem occurs. The hackers soon get blamed for 25million pounds going missing, and when it ends up being a virus that could cause a massive oil spill on a ship, things start to get tense. Dade ends up getting a visit from the guy whose doing all of this, and gets threatened a number of times, that if he has the ‘disk’ (a disk with all the information about the virus) then he’s to give it to him straight away. Eugene Bedford (fisher Stevens), ...

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...very fine line indeed and Hackers balances wavering from one side of it to the other but in this case it just about gets away with it. When was the last time you saw a cool or sexy computer nerd, a techno wienie with looks and style to match? Lets face it even if they are out there they’re a rare bunch but this film would have us believe that half of US highschool students possess enough talent and intelligence to use their unrealistically enhanced ...
...one of the underground ‘elite’ hackers by night. Having recently moved to New York with his mother Dade is spotted by fellow hacker Ramon (Renoly Santiago) aka The Phantom Phreak and his friends the hopeless mummies boy Joey (Jesse Bradford), the completely nuts Emmanuel Goldstien (Matthew Lillard) aka Cereal Killer and Paul (Laurence Mason) aka Lord Nikon. With his passion flowing between lust and hate for fellow student Kate Libby aka Acid Burn ...

millwall 10.09.2000 (19.09.2002) · Read full review
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...on a group of teen hackers framed for a virus planted into a large mineral company after one of them stumbles across a worm program put there by another hacker called The Plague, who works for the company as their computer security expert. The virus called ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ was to be the cover-up for his worm program and stop the teen hackers from exposing him, but they fight back with the help of elite hackers around the world they ...
...worm program thus clearing their names and also gives them proof to convict The Plague. The main characters are Dade Murphy aka Crash Override (played by Jonny Lee Miller better known as Sickboy from Trainspotting) , Acid Burn (Angelina Jolie who is playing Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider film), Phantom Phreak(Renoly Santiago), Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard), Lord Nikon (Lawrence Mason) and Joey (Jesse Bradford). One of the things that actual ...

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...sabotage. Needless to say, the hackers outwit both those they are trying to stop, and the authorities who refuse to believe that they are hacking for good rather than evil. Stand out performance? Well, Fisher Stevens is good as e-criminal The Plague, although one wonders what Michelle Pfeiffer ever saw in him. A mention also for Angelina Jolie, now an Oscar winner for Girl, Interrupted. It may well be in a bargain bin near you for £4.99, but very ...

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...the news and hear about hackers hacking into some network out there you shouldn't always view it - like the press does - as malicious. OK, some hackers do this to be malicious or some do it to gain financially. I'm not saying there's such a thing as a "nice hacker" but some of them do actually do us favours. As an Intranet Developer I attend many conferences where a hacker has been the main speaker. They appear to be ordinary people but with a great ...
...a reason. They are asked to appear as a guest speaker for a reason. That reason is for our computer safety in the future. Why do you think we keep getting updated with anti-virus software and security/firewall software - its to keep us on our toes. Don't download the latest patch for your software and it could be a costly mistake. When Opec's web site was hacked it was because of the increase in oil prices - so that's someone having their say about ...

woodkeith 21.02.2001 · Read full review
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...'hyped-up' with the characters. Hackers starts out with a 13 year boy on trial for writing a virus. He is sent down and not allowed to use a computer till his 18th birthday. The story is based around this boy as a teenager, and his friends, who are set up to cover a virus that will cause an ecological disaster. From the start of this film you will want the soundtrack pumped up. It is almost constant throughout the whole film and is brilliant. I'm ...
...love it! High praise. Within the first 15 minutes of the film, you care about the characters and understand the dynamics between them. This is important as the films main focus is on the characters. You are more concerned with how the characters are affected by whats going on, rather than whats actually going on. The characters are brilliant, witty and total unique. The storyline is nothing special but the world is so well realised that it seems ...

FruitBatInShades 26.10.2001 · Read full review
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...on a group of Computer Hackers in the 80's early 90's i beleive, The film is mainly based on a character called dade Murphy AKA Zero Cool who also known as the actor, Johny Lee Miller, Following in the footsteps of his Grandfather also known Bernard Lee who played M in the early James Bond movies. Dade Murphy (Zero Cool) is found guilty of the computer fraud act in the beginning of the film and banned from using a computer or phone until his 18th ...
...friends knowing they have previous computer conviction, Thats when the clock starts, Dade and his Hacker friends must Break into the same computer and remove the virus in order to show there innocence. It is a thrilling a Bumpy ride into the World of Hackers and what there faced with. ...

abacus1983 26.04.2007 (06.05.2007) · Read full review
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...they call upon all the hackers around the world to help hack the Gibson so they can upload an antivirus, because the Gibson owners know something is going on and launch the virus which will cause an ecological disaster. Well the hackers are successful and give the friends enough time to upload the anti virus which stops and deletes the worm, causing the Gibson owners to get arrested. There that was a quick run through of the film, even though the ...
...a good film for its time. The hacking competitions the friends have seem rather fake and exaggerated but are rather funny. The story line as well for its time and based around computers is rather good. Basically what I’m trying to say is, Buy it watch it a few times then do what you want with it. Definitely worth watching at least once! ...

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hackers is a great movie which entitles hackers worldwide uniting together.The movie is a very exciting movie in which many hackers join together to hack into a system via the internet which had a mega virus.I really enjoyed this movie as i am an internet mummy and i love surfing the net. Everyone should definately watch this movie because it is a very adrenalin pumping film and a very enjoyable movie. People who enjoy computer related action and ...

freaky69 21.08.2000 · Read full review
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This film was really good, it was all about a bunch of computer wiz kids who hacked different sites for fun, and basically as a game to see who was the best. This film stars Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie, who uncover some plot by a businessman hacker and then try to undo him, because he tries to get them arrested (bit of a vicious circle!!). There is a big lead up to the ending where there is a showdown on the computers between the youngsters ...

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Hackers is a fantastic little techno crime caper based around the world of the so-called geek, the "hacker", someone who spends more time hacking into junk at his local bank than out with some sexy sinorita. But enough about that - Hackers is actually a fantastically written movie with big stars (albeit before they were really famous....) Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider, Girl Interrupted, Gone In 60 Seconds), Matthew Lillard (Scream, the fantastic Dead ...
...They play a band of Hackers who are being blamed/framed for a computer virus that will sink an oil tanker in the atlantic, after they find out a techno supervisor is weezling millions of dollars out of his workplace, with Johnny Lee Miller being the major Hacker. A strange Neo-Futuristic look at hacking that is definitely well worth a second byte....get it? ...

jayadkins 25.08.2000 · Read full review
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Hackers may not be true to life of the way hacking really happens but its plot line is still astounding... The main problem, it appears, that people have with the film hackers is its use of flashy visuals and special effects, coupled with some of its more outrageous uses of chance and fate. Personally I adore this film because of the sheer action. The movie is helped by its pumping soundtrack which drives it along at a steady pace. I really wish ...

alexemo 14.01.2001 · Read full review
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...people describe. The real hackers of today’s age are not infact malicious at all and only want to gain knowledge, do not want to cause damage or infact leave any trace for people to pick up, Remember knowledge is power and with power you can control what you wish. The people who create the virus’s and Trojans, who break into systems, steal all the data and destroy they’re computer afterwards. These are not hackers. These are just ...
...true hacker, as most real hackers will go to any length to get their information from said computer system, and especially anything non malicious to get it. I seriously suggest people change their views of hackers as it is not true what the government and Fbi alike say about hackers, that is just a myth of a what a hacker is. ...

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