Hackers

Hackers (1995)

  • 34% of critics liked it
    (41 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (115,006 ratings)

In this high-tech thriller, Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) has been fascinated with computers all his life; at the age of 11, he was able to break into the computer network of several top Wall Street investment and banking firms, and he nearly caused a major stock market crash in the process. As… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Rafael Moreu
Genres
Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Sep 15, 1995 Wide
On DVD
Apr 24, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Hackers isn't a very good movie, but it's a darn sight more fun than The Net.

  • Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel

    After the mechanics of the thriller plot start to kick in, the film drags. And when it's time for the big cyber-showdown, we're stuck, once again, with footage of frantic typing.

  • Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

    This is a movie that sums up the worst of the computer era: zapping you with techno-cliches and trapping you in constant visual crash and burn.

  • Bruce Diones, New Yorker

    The story is negligible, but it offers the same order of fun as a good rock video: the marriage of images and music.

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

    What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the guileless way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jennifer X


    Hackers is hi-LAR-ious because of the way it portrays the Internet. The hacking duels between Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie are at once ridiculous and kinda sexy. A LOT of fun.

  • Universal D


    Attempted glamorisation of New York teen hackers fighting corporate greed comes off as a bit too cheeky. All racial stereotypes are represented though ...

  • Michael G


    I can objectively say that Hackers is a badly-dated, ridiculous piece of crap that's pure camp to anyone that's ever used a computer. BUT... I had fun watching it. Most of the characters were ridiculous and between Fisher Stevens' egotistical geek and Lorraine… More

  • Bethany M


    Quite a good film. Keeps you intrigued for the most part of the film.

  • James A


    I like a movie that tries to make nerds look like extreme raver rebels. Or DO I!?

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