It's not a picture for cynics, requiring some relaxation while Softley explores old tech and cartoon personalities, but it's a vibrant feature that's superbly executed, making for an entertaining sit for those willing to go along with it.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 18, 2023

Cutting-edge ideas can’t quite compensate for a banal storyline.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2023

When you look beyond all the visuals, it's pretty dull.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 1, 2022

One may criticise Hackers for being unreal, ridiculous or just too cheesy, but it stands as one of the most underrated gems to have come out of the 1990s. The performances are vibrant, the storytelling is kinetic and the visuals are something to behold.

| Dec 10, 2018

Rarely do movies try-and fail-as hard to be cool as Hackers.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Aug 21, 2015

An onslaught of lame plotting, dopey writing and cornball histrionics.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2015

Hackers isn't a very good movie, but it's a darn sight more fun than The Net.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 3, 2013

The real crime of cyberpunks is that they have encouraged Hollywood to make several bad movies aimed at exploiting this new lifestyle niche.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2013

A disjointed yet generally enjoyable stint at the movies, even for those who don't know an infobahn from a nanosecond.

| May 3, 2013

After the mechanics of the thriller plot start to kick in, the film drags. And when it's time for the big cyber-showdown, we're stuck, once again, with footage of frantic typing.

| May 3, 2013

This is a movie that sums up the worst of the computer era: zapping you with techno-cliches and trapping you in constant visual crash and burn.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 3, 2013

The story is negligible, but it offers the same order of fun as a good rock video: the marriage of images and music.

| May 3, 2013

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.

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Silly but enjoyable.

| Jan 14, 2011

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2011

Even if you bought DOS for Dummies, there's nothing in HACKERS that will stretch your brain.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2011

Without being any sort of miracle, this engaging and lively exploitation fantasy-thriller about computer hackers, anarchistic in spirit, succeeds at just about everything The Net failed to.

| Jan 14, 2011

There is a great deal more style than substance here.

Full Review | Jun 9, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jun 30, 2006