1995 · action · crime · thriller
Hackers
Directed by Iain Softley1h 45m1995
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Our read: Hackers (1995) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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