1992 · thriller · comedy
Sneakers
Directed by Phil Alden Robinson2h 5m1992
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
Our read: Sneakers (1992) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded thriller · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured thriller / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- twisty
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