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Rateds: PG-13, R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi, Suspense; With: Angelina Jolie, Matthew Lillard and Jonny Lee Miller
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
HACKERS (PG-13) You know what you're in for the moment that Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard), one of the teen computer-genius heroes, describes the cyberprank he and his buddies are about to pull as ''a seriously righteous hack.'' It would be nice to describe the second feature directed by Iain Softley, who made the terrific BackBeat, as a noble failure; in fact, it's a dismal mess. The plot, which centers on the attempts of Dade (Jonny Lee Miller), the cute new whiz on the block, to defeat an evil hacker, has all the coherence of a scrambled disc. What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired. D
Posted Oct 06, 1995
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