Hackers: Critic Reviews

Though this scheme involves loads of important data, it manages to sound dopey all the same.

To its credit, Hackers recalls the pumped-up energy of Pump Up the Volume, as well as its casting prowess.

How do you make typing look exciting?

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

The movie is well directed, written and acted, and while it is no doubt true that in real life no hacker could do what the characters in this movie do, it is no doubt equally true that what hackers can do would not make a very entertaining movie.

There is a great deal more style than substance here.

What's uncovered beneath the flashy skin is an old-fashioned, film-by-numbers thriller.

Silly but enjoyable.

A plot thinner than an LCD monitor doesn't prevent the bombastic fun, and the young cast help it hurtle along.

stupid and entertaining, to some nostalgia degree

You gotta love some of the horrible dialogue in this flick.

The sappy ending's hard to take, but the on-line showdown between The Plague, the Secret Service and the united worldwide community of hackers is nail-biting.

As good as a feature length music video can possibly be.

Attractive leads in a leaden suspense story

Ultimately falls flatter than a floppy disk, relying solely on style to divert attention from the lack of an original plot.

What it lacks in substance and plausibility it makes up in inventive imagery and deft shadings of a world of scheming cyberpunks.

Hackers looks and sounds like an Intel Inside commercial produced by MTV.

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.