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Soilfusion

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Entertaining and lively movie if you take it for what it is in my personal opinion.

Of course the story is slightly over the top and basic in terms of the good guy anti hero types versus bad guy movie standard. Yes it does make...
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Entertaining and lively movie if you take it for what it is in my personal opinion.

Of course the story is slightly over the top and basic in terms of the good guy anti hero types versus bad guy movie standard. Yes it does make some minor changes in it's pre-set storyline from the more traditional black and white story ethic where your bad guy is obviously nasty and your good guy is a morally grounded, strond minded defender.

The movie may seem to be littered with buzz words and jargon of the techno generation of computer hackers but without some of the lingo it'd lose it's appeal entirely. It seems to be from my impression well researched, put together and constructed. The backgrounds and scene's are atypical of the stereotype of characters with fluroscent colours and clothes and trendy rollerblades being the preferred method of transport, however the soundtrack is one part of the film that you cannot fault. It is vast and carefully selected and compliments the film in many ways during the progression through the world of our group of young hopefuls. So in general the scene's are lively and engrossing with their many colours (except for the school house of course..) Soundtrack is sublime and well researched however the actual execution of the film and the rather see-through storyline certainly detract from it's appeal.

Overall not a total waste of your time but not exactly life changing. ;)

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Posted nov 4, 2007 7:26 pm pt

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It's not great, but its an ok movie thats fun to watch. The story was weak, the characters were bad, but for some reason you can't look away.

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Posted aug 21, 2007 11:30 am pt

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I know that Hackers is not a great film but it's one of those movies I can't help but like. The plot is mediocre. The writing is bad. The acting overall ranges from average to bad. Fisher Stevens however is just god awful. With this said, I have...
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I know that Hackers is not a great film but it's one of those movies I can't help but like. The plot is mediocre. The writing is bad. The acting overall ranges from average to bad. Fisher Stevens however is just god awful. With this said, I have seen this movie about 40 times. Why? I have know idea. I guess it's just fun to watch. We all have our guilty pleasures and this film is one of mine.

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Posted jun 28, 2007 5:13 am pt

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I really enjoyed this movie. The characters and story are both done well. It will go down as a Cult Classic.

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Posted may 14, 2007 5:45 am pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Jolie, the daughter of Jon Voight, and Miller, a British newcomer, bring a particular quality to their performances that is convincing and engaging.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  Recalls the pumped-up energy of "Pump Up the Volume," as well as its casting prowess.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  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.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  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.

  by Joe Brown | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  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.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  50
  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.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  50
  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.

  by Kimberley Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  50
  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.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  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.

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  50
  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.

  by Barbara Shulgasser | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  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.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  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.

  by Joe Leydon | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  30
  Tirelessly modish, hyper-glossy, super-superficial. It's also cacophonous. And, for all of its drum-beating for brain power, dumb.

  by Hal Hinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  30
  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.

  by David Kronke | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  25
  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.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »