Hackers (1995)
Directed by Iain Softley
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.
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Similar themes have been used and reused--even in previous movie hits, like 1983's "WarGames," a teen thriller with Matthew Broderick accidentally reprogramming the Pentagon's war machine computer (a film that may have inspired a lot of real-life hackers).
Crash's buddies and lover--all of whom he meets in his first days at a new school, like James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause"--are Kate Libby a k a "Acid Burn" (Angelina Jolie), "Cereal Killer" (Matthew Lillard), no-handle Joey (Jesse Bradford, the young star of Steven Soderbergh's "King of the Hill"), "Phantom Phreak" (Renoly Santiago) and "Lord Nikon" (Laurence Mason).
In a manner similar to that of 1982's Tron predating the obsession for CGI in entertainment, so did 1995's Hackers offer an early peek at the online world shortly before the global explosion of the Internet.
Her fashion here is part Saved By the Bell, part Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner, part sex queen from a hair metal video.
Ridiculous it may seem ⦠and overwhelmingly ridiculous it is, but Softley's lightning-fast editing and Blade Runner-meets-ClubKid-heaven sets manage to keep your mind off the glaring, frequent plot holes and on the screen where the action (and pretty, swirling colors) are.