[attrition] Review: Hackers - 1995

[lyger]

http://attrition.org/~lyger/works/reviews/hackers.html

Where to start, where to start. Hackers isn't really an enigma; it was 
done for glitz, glamour, Angelina Jolie in PVC, and sensationalism. Flashy 
lights, pulsating music, the whole nine yards. Usually, a movie review 
gives a synopsis early and concluding statements at the end. This review 
says it all up front: Hackers was a T&A movie that "sexified" hacking and 
made teenage boys think that they could have a crack (pun intended) at 
Angelina Jolie if they got skillz. So now, on with the rest of the 
review..

"Zero Cool" is a child hacker who created a virus, caused economic chaos, 
and was forbidden to touch a computer until he turned 18. Then... he 
turned 18. POW! Most of the plot is set in the first sixty seconds of the 
movie. Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) returns to his roots (well, he 
really has none since he was about 9 or 10 when he was busted), and enters 
the "underground world of hacking".

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