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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Hackers (1995)


A drama directed by Iain Softley, starring Angelina Jolie.
A group of computer hackers learn of a secret government plan and have to expose it before the government catches them.
Due to advances in technology, most of the plot seems pretty silly these days. Hence, the characters sound stupid: "A virus AND a worm?". Some of the "inside the computer/internet" scenes are way too advanced for computers of that time, leading me to believe that the characters have dyslexia, which would explain the psychedelic movements of things that I know would look like DOS. I gather that this film was supposed to be popular with young people of the time period, as it was clearly made with a very narrow target audience in mind. It's not even all that interesting, so I rate it poor.