Hackers
MGM/UA Distribution Company | Release Date: September 15, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Jolie, the daughter of Jon Voight, and Miller, a British newcomer, bring a particular quality to their performances that is convincing and engaging. Read full review
75
USA TodayMike Clark
Recalls the pumped-up energy of "Pump Up the Volume," as well as its casting prowess.
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
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. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
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. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
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. Read full review
50
Washington PostJoe Brown
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. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
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. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
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. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
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. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe Leydon
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. Read full review
30
Washington PostHal Hinson
Tirelessly modish, hyper-glossy, super-superficial. It's also cacophonous. And, for all of its drum-beating for brain power, dumb. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesDavid Kronke
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. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
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. Read full review
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