Sneakers

Now that the Cold War is over, Amerika's surveillance capacities supposedly serve only to invade Amerikans' "privacy rights." One of this movie's catch-phrases is that there are "too many secrets." With Big Chill-like activist backgrounds, the hacker heros demonstrate the individualism of both the hacker world and the settler-left. The SNEAKERS collective shows that technology can be defeated by people if they are properly organized. After using their collective skills to steal a microchip for what they presume to be the NSA, they test the chip and find that "It's the codebreaker. No more secrets." The hacker's dream. They take money from the Republican Party and give it to liberal organizations. Whatever.

A tremendously well-written, -directed and -acted caper film. It fits together, it moves along and it doesn't strain credulity. It's a great Saturday night on the sofa with popcorn movie, but with a worrying prescience. Power? It's all ones and zeros now.

This movie is poorly written, chock full of offensive cliched stereotypes for the blind. Did I mention that the whole thing makes very little sense and the story seems to serve only as a poor vehicle for... I couldn't honestly tell you. Included are bad cryptology conjectures, a horrible throwaway character serving only as the requisite romantic interest for Robert Redford, and the murder of an ex Russian spy and his chauffeur which is curiously forgotten about halfway through the movie and never alluded to again. Rent something else, I beg of you.

Great acting, great cast, great effects, great plot. This movie has it all...suspense, twists, and a little action. Even a small bit of romance. I've watched the movie a zillion times, every time picking something new out of it. Lately I've found a few mistakes in it, the latest being a scene where a headlight burns out in one camera angle scene and not in another... but that's another story. If you like adventure movies, this one's for you!

This movie is not great, but it is damn good. I enjoyed it and the humor it provided. The acting is outstanding and helps you forget the seemingly endless plot holes there seems to be. This movie is highly entertaining and enjoyable and I'd recommend it to anyone. It does have some shortcomings I won't go into to prevent spoiling the movie. It's not the perfect movie and has some shortcomings but a movie this entertaining would be too good to pass up. There is some great scenes and the story isn't perfect but the actors help pull this one together. I liked it and will give it a passing grade and because I have to go ten lines with this I will say it is worth seeing again--6/10

I am convinced that this movie would have been a huge hit if it had been released four or five years later. That way, it would have been able to have been marketed to millions who were suddenly "discovering the Information Highway" and realizing the potential power of the internet. This movie was (and in many ways still is) ahead of its time. It looks not only at the power of information, but the potential power that can come with CONTROLLING information. In the case of this movie, ramifications can affect anything from organized crime, to giant corporations, to Third World countries, or even the "whole system". I know Wargames came much earlier than this, but for some reason the internet seems to be more applicable here. Maybe it is in the way that information is regarded as the ultimate commodity in this movie. Great, great movie - very underrated.

Movie worth a look. It's not horrible but not the greatest - it is kind of fun. The cast is outstanding, yet the script and plot are weak for the caliber of talent. There are some outstanding stories about hacking and cracking (i.e., "The Blue Nowhere", by Jeffery Deaver), that would make for an outstanding movie - why this one was used, I do not know. Good pace, a little choppy. It's worth a look.

Awesome!! better than "Hackers" and other technology based films cause its not full of wanky imagery that has nothing to do with reality ... if you like to live at least partly in the real world and like brilliant acting, whether your into puters, technology or not .. watch this awesome piece of cinematography. Casted with actors able to keep you enthralled and captivated. Not one moment Will you be nodding off finding the inside of your eyelids a suitable scene. and if any film was ahead of its time with lines like "he who controls information controls the world" remembering this was 1992 when the internet was nothing more than a military utility .. what insight. Watch this movie