The movie is smart and entertaining, then, as long as you don't take the computer stuff very seriously. I didn't. I took it approximately as seriously as the archeology in "Indiana Jones." I liked the pacing and energy in the direction by Iain Softley (whose previous film, "Backbeat," was about the early Beatles). I liked ingenious touches like a sequence where two hackers battle to control the programming at a radio station and we see a duel between two robot cassette machines. I liked the way The Plague created a virus designed to catch his enemies. And I liked the way Kate told Dade, "I don't do dates," early in the film. That put their relationship on a footing that neatly avoided several obligatory scenes of teenage love cliches.
The movie is well directed, written and acted, and while it is no doubt true that in real life no hacker could do what the characters in this movie do, it is no doubt equally true that what hackers can do would not make a very entertaining movie.
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Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), and her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film in Hackers (1995). She starred in the biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted. Her starring role as the titular video game heroine in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. She continued her action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010), and The Tourist (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008); the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her biggest commercial successes include the fantasy picture Maleficent (2014), its 2019 sequel, and the superhero film Eternals (2021). She has performed a voice role in the animation film series Kung Fu Panda since 2008. Jolie has also directed and written the war dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), and First They Killed My Father (2017).
Jolie began her professional film career in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the direct-to-video science-fiction sequel Cyborg 2, as a near-human robot designed for corporate espionage and assassination. She was so disappointed with the film that she did not audition again for a year.[14] Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence (1995), she starred in her first major studio film, Hackers (1995). The New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote that Jolie's character "stands out ... because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top."[31] Hackers failed to make a profit at the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release.[32] The role in Hackers is considered Jolie's breakthrough.[33][34][35]
During filming of Hackers (1995), Jolie had a romance with actor Jonny Lee Miller, her first lover since the relationship in her early teens.[14] They were not in touch for months after production ended, but eventually reconnected and married soon after in March 1996. She attended her wedding in black rubber pants and a white T-shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood.[198] Although the relationship ended the following year, Jolie remained on good terms with Miller, whom she called "a solid man and a solid friend".[18] Their divorce, initiated by Jolie in February 1999, was finalized shortly before she remarried the next year.[199][200]
Yearning to watch 'Hackers' in the comfort of your own home? Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Iain Softley-directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting. Below, you'll find a number of top-tier streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'Hackers' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Hackers' right now, here are some finer points about the United Artists, Suftley drama flick. Released September 14th, 1995, 'Hackers' stars Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 47 min, and received a user score of 63 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 1,036 top users. Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus." 'Hackers' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, TCM, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Hoopla, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, and Pluto TV .
Hackers takes place not so terribly long ago, yet for how much has changed since, it may as well be a hundred years old. It is a capsule of a moment in which the Internet was that newborn baby. Unfortunately, we ended up with something like the kid from that episode of "The Twilight Zone" who holds a town hostage with the power of his mind, but in 1995 we only knew that a world-changing door had been opened. People didn't understand enough about the Internet to determine how much of Hackers was real and how much was utter bullshit. Most moviegoers probably didn't buy the cheesy lingo and acid-trip sequences of rainbow math equations floating around people's heads, but who's to say if an eleven-year-old kid could feasibly bring down a major bank from the comfort of his home? A boatload of movies based on this cyberspace premise were released from the late-'80s through the '90s ('95 alone also saw Johnny Mnemonic, Virtuosity, The Net, and Strange Days, not to mention a hacker villain in GoldenEye), and most dealt with the fear inherent in this seemingly all-powerful entity that was a total mystery to the general public.
The plot of Hackers is pretty straightforward. A group of teen 1337 h4x0rz accidentally stumbles onto a plan by a skeevy tech officer calling himself The Plague (Fisher Stevens) to defraud the company he works for. A battle between greed and morality ensues, and of course the fresh-faced young hackers in their punk T-shirts and blinding neon outwit the greasy suit. The specifics, however, are muddled and odd, with troubled loner Dade (Jonny Lee Miller) struggling to fit in with the cool kids at his new school, as well as impress the pants off of Kate (Angelina Jolie). At 11 years old, "Zero Cool" Dade was arrested for crashing the New York Stock Exchange and forbidden from using a computer again until his eighteenth birthday. Now living with his single mom (Alberta Watson), he goes right back to his old ways the second he can legally touch a keyboard, this time under the alias "Crash Override." The film takes him and his emotional struggles seriously and does build a warm dynamic between Dade and his mother, at least, yet it's just plain difficult to shed a tear for someone slinging lame insults over slime-green e-chats. The villain's plan should be simple enough but most of the details whiz by, made almost unintelligible by fantasy techno-lingo that has little basis in reality. All of that awkward character-building and plot confusion and unrealism doesn't quite matter, though. What carries the human scenes isn't a compulsion to know what's going to happen next so much as the enjoyment of watching people hang out. Rounding out the young crew are Joey (Jesse Bradford), Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard), Nikon (Laurence Mason), and Phreak (Renoly Santiago). These misfits and their bizarre banter are a joy to watch, and the actors' clear dedication to their characters saves an often cringeworthy script. It's remarkably similar to any 1980s high-school hangout flick, with the teens throwing around their alien languages and having fun while pranking the principal and thwarting their parents' attempts at discipline.
Of course, the difference between this and John Hughes is the film's garish psychedelic cyberpunk style. Like Tron before it, Hackers offers a visceral experience, the chance to explore cyberspace from inside it, to drown in chips and wires. The camera dives through circuit boards and terminals; the innards of a computer are depicted as a neon blueprint of a city. Ironically enough, many of these sequences were done with motion-control, models, and traditional animation rather than CGI, as director Iain Softley felt at the time that digital effects were too flat and sterile. Maybe this should have been a hint, a warning to keep our focus on three-dimensional reality as opposed to flat, artificial screens. Or maybe that's accidentally the meta-point: computers feel real. When we use them, we enter another place. To a hacker, it isn't a screen or a sequence of numbers, it's a living environment where robot arms fight over tapes and pixels build worlds. Computers become magical entities, both an extension of the user and a sentient being all their own, a partner and a pet. During the final showdown, the camera pans across the hackers in a row of phone booths, each with their own laptop plugged into dial-up. The screens are logos and smiley faces and skulls reflective of each user, and as they boot up together to take on their foe, the computers read like fellow soldiers. 2ff7e9595c
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