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

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

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

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

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.

| Feb 9, 2006

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

It gives you more insight into the minds of Hollywood hacks than of computer hackers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2002

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

| Jan 1, 2000

How do you make typing look exciting?

| Jan 1, 2000

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000