Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16947 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-02-01
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Italian, Japanese, Russian
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 108 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ("By the time they realize the truth, we'll be long gone with all the money.") For all its postmodern trappings the movie is working with sub-prehistoric storytelling tools. But it does succeed on one level, as a movie about adolescent bonding and alienation. The director, Iain Softley, helmed the Beatles-in-Hamburg biopic Backbeat, and he seems to have an instinct for the emotions that pull kids together around common interests and the insecurities that drive them apart. The familiar crises of loyalty and betrayal have an ache of real loneliness. It doesn't hurt that the two stars, Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy in Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic; their longing glances steam up the screen. --David Chute

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French German Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1
Booklet
Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menu Screens
Chapter Search

Synopsis
A young hacker prodigy meets other kids like himself when he and his mother move cross-country and settle in New York City. High school takes on a new light when Dade (Jonny Lee Miller) meets a group of misfits and rich kids who hack into computer systems for fun. When one of their group is suddenly arrested, the others band together to take on a corporate hacker disguised as a security officer and attempt to bring down his devious and diabolical plans. The film features one of Angelina Jolie's first screen roles.

Customer Reviews

Hack the planet!
Hackers is a thrilling, vibrant journey into the world of cyber-culture and the computer hacker. Dade Murphy (Johnny Lee Miller) is a shy, socially inept computer whizz-kid who moves to New York with his mother, and soon mixes up with the ballsy Kate Libby (a young Angelina Jolie) and a gang of elite hackers (including Matthew Liliard) in a major electronic heist. These group of characters are the heart and soul of the movie, and it's hard not to enjoy their exploits as they take you through a subculture that has barely been touched by other mainstream movies - some people don't know it even exists. If you're one of those, you're in for a shock.

Director Ian Softley handles preceedings well, and even blurs the line between fantasy and reality by showing how the hackers see the world as a labyrinth of computer connections. The film has a harsh sense of humour too, and demonstrates just how powerful a computer hacker can be. The film also boasts a terrific soundtrack, featuring the best of Underworld, The Prodigy and Leftfield among others.

Although the dialogue and plot can be dodgy in some moments, Hackers is definitely an original and well-crafted movie adventure.

My favourite film!
I've watched this film so many times, and I never get bored with it. I do want to put one thing straight. SOME of the hacking isn't true to life, but a large part is. Think...this film is almost 10 years old now. Back then there were no firewalls and anti-virus was laughable, so a lot of the stuff done is really very doable. To think of the stars this film launched. Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Matthew Lillard. All big names now. Oh, and check the blink and you'll miss it cameo of Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics. He's the London hacker at the end of the film.

Best bits:
When the pool on the roof leaks
When they get Agent Gill back
Razor and Blade!
The Plague (the guy is an underrated actor!)

Worst bits:
Playing Wipeout...why?
Cerial Killer's obviously cardboard pager
Joey's computer flicking between a laptop and desktop (check it)
Those awful 3D towers that represent the operating system

To sum up...overlook some of the cringeworthy bits, because this is a great film. Oh...and it will make you want to be a hacker!

Man, what a film. Some may say it's innacurate.
Well this is film is awesome. I first saw this about 2 years ago and now I try to watch it every week! Angelina Jolie plays a Hacker gurl names Kate Libby, who teams up with Dade Murphy(Johnny Lee Miller). Many Hackers have commmented on the innacuracy of this film to the real world of Hacking, yeah I agree. I am a hacker myself (please not only on my own network!!) I know that the glass computers and the cybercity bits just ain't what happens! Anyway back to the film, Dade and Kate along with Phreak (Renoly Santiago) Joey (Jesse Bradford) Cereal (Matthew Lillard) and Nikon (Laurence Mason) are blamed on the Da vinci virus which is the coverup of a worm launched by The Plague (Fisher Stevens). Well anyway I won't give anymore away as I don't want to spoil it for you. Well I would highly recommend purchasing this DVD or video! I got this on DVD which with the added bonus of the trailer is true bargin! An is great value for money for such an excellent film. I'm in the process of creating a fan-site for the film, if you require more details of this or want to know more about the film then please feel free to E-mail me. Well finaly I would like to say that this is my fave film of all time and when I saw this on DVD I got it straight away it's a film that can be enjoyed by all (it's rated a 12 so not quite everyone) and is likely to get you hooked to the extent where you could watch it many times! Thanx!