|

New This Week
Critics & Publications
Archives: A-Z Index
Advanced Search
Upcoming Release Calendar
Awards & Bests By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
How Metascores Are Calculated
Discuss Film In Our Forums

34
10,000 B.C.
37
Air I Breathe, The
52
Be Kind Rewind
47
Boarding Gate
46
Bonneville
42
Bucket List, The
70
Caramel
49
Cassandra's Dream
44
Chaos Theory
54
Charlie Bartlett
63
City of Men
78
Control
66
Darfur Now
59
Definitely, Maybe
41
Drillbit Taylor
36
Eye, The
38
Flash Point
57
Flawless
29
Fool's Gold
41
Funny Games
65
Grace Is Gone
57
Hammer, The
68
Honeydripper
67
In Bruges
xx
Jack and Jill vs. the World
79
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
35
Jumper
9
Meet the Spartans
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Other Boleyn Girl, The
90
Persepolis
44
Rails & Ties
46
Rambo
36
Remember the Daze
44
Ruins, The
47
Semi-Pro
24
Sex and Death 101
76
Shotgun Stories
63
Signal, The
40
Sleepwalking
62
Spiderwick Chronicles, The
61
Stop Loss
33
Superhero Movie
54
Tracey Fragments, The
45
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
59
Under the Same Moon
40
Vantage Point
55
Walker, The
46
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
60
What Would Jesus Buy?
51
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
17
Witless Protection
90
Persepolis
79
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
78
Control
76
Shotgun Stories
70
Caramel
68
Honeydripper
67
In Bruges
66
Darfur Now
65
Grace Is Gone
63
City of Men
63
Signal, The
62
Spiderwick Chronicles, The
61
Stop Loss
60
What Would Jesus Buy?
59
Under the Same Moon
59
Definitely, Maybe
57
Flawless
57
Hammer, The
55
Walker, The
54
Charlie Bartlett
54
Tracey Fragments, The
52
Be Kind Rewind
52
My Blueberry Nights
51
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
50
Other Boleyn Girl, The
49
Cassandra's Dream
47
Boarding Gate
47
Semi-Pro
46
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
46
Bonneville
46
Rambo
45
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
44
Rails & Ties
44
Chaos Theory
44
Ruins, The
42
Bucket List, The
41
Funny Games
41
Drillbit Taylor
40
Vantage Point
40
Sleepwalking
38
Flash Point
37
Air I Breathe, The
36
Eye, The
36
Remember the Daze
35
Jumper
34
10,000 B.C.
33
Superhero Movie
29
Fool's Gold
24
Sex and Death 101
17
Witless Protection
9
Meet the Spartans
xx
Jack and Jill vs. the World
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
|
Hackers
MGM
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexuality and brief strong language
Starring
Jonny Lee Miller,
Angelina Jolie,
Jesse Bradford,
Matthew Lillard,
Laurence Mason,
Renoly Santiago,
Fisher Stevens,
and
Lorraine Bracco
A neophyte "hacker" becomes the target of the FBI after he unknowingly taps into a high-tech embezzling scheme which could cause a horrific environmental disaster in this suspenseful drama. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Rafael Moreu
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Iain Softley
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 25, 1998
Video: April 4, 2000
Theatrical: September 15, 1995
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
107 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Jolie, the daughter of Jon Voight, and Miller, a British newcomer, bring a particular quality to their performances that is convincing and engaging.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
Recalls the pumped-up energy of "Pump Up the Volume," as well as its casting prowess.
70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Without being any sort of miracle, this is an engaging and lively exploitation fantasy-thriller about computer hackers, anarchistic in spirit, that succeeds at just about everything "The Net" failed to--especially in representing computer operations with some visual flair.

50
Washington Post
Joe Brown
Separates the tech-savvy boys from the lost-in-cyberspace men. Really--the movie may be too fast and confusingly jargon-choked for everyone but Netsurfers and Webheads.

50
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
A lot of attention has gone into the film's video games, computer imagery and costumes, to the point where simply watching these artifacts is half the fun...But eventually Hackers turns tedious, perhaps not realizing that an audience can get tired of the same old equations floating in cyberspace.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
There's not a slowly-paced scene or a dull moment to be found. If nothing else, this film won't bore the average viewer. However, when Hackers has been dissected, what's uncovered beneath the flashy skin is an old-fashioned, film-by-numbers thriller.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Silly, predictable, and, dare I say it, oddly endearing, Hackers is the first film I've seen in a long while that annoyed me so much I actually enjoyed it.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Silly, predictable, and, dare I say it, oddly endearing, Hackers is the first film I've seen in a long while that annoyed me so much I actually enjoyed it.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Want a believable plot or acting? Forget it. But if you just want knockout images, unabashed eye candy and a riveting look at a complex world that seems both real and fake at the same time, "Hackers'' is one of the most intriguing movies of the year.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
The one outstanding ingredient in this exercise is Miller, an English actor who is not only irresistibly adorable and a good actor, but also speaks in a perfect American accent.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Still odder is the movie's sexual worldview, which is simultaneously infantile and fetishistic. Boys wear rubber, lipstick, and spandex, but don't seem to have a sexual bone in their unmuscled bodies.

50
Variety
Joe Leydon
There is a great deal more style than substance here. The special effects experts and the other members of the technical crew do their considerable best to give their various hacking sequences the look of warp-speed sci-fi fantasy.

30
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Tirelessly modish, hyper-glossy, super-superficial. It's also cacophonous. And, for all of its drum-beating for brain power, dumb.

30
Los Angeles Times
David Kronke
All the sound and fury in the world can't disguise the fact that yowling music, typing montages and computer animation do not a gripping finale make. This movie megabytes.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's a dismal mess...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.


The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Discuss this movie in our forums |
|