Teenage hackers against corporate thieves! Can they crack the secret behind the Da Vinci Virus in time to keep themselves out of jail and spoil the bad guys.
Although I don't know any Stuyvesant High School students of the 1990s -- except for a niece who dropped out -- I do know several of an earlier vintage and computer hackers. None of them were buff, well groomed, acne-free, and always with enough money to buy the latest computer equipment. They were physical wrecks, socially inept, and perpetually broke. One of them remarked to me of Sandra Bullock in The Net (released the same year), "No one eats take-out pizza every night and has thighs like that."
Of course, that's reality, not Hollywood, and no one would pay to see a bunch of people like that on the big screen. So we get Johnny Lee Miller and Angela Jolie, instead of John Candy and Shelley Duvall.
Lots of cool CGI and mean, greedy, and clueless older people. It's very watchable, if not particularly believable. With Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco, Felicity Huffman, and Penn Gillette.
Although I don't know any Stuyvesant High School students of the 1990s -- except for a niece who dropped out -- I do know several of an earlier vintage and computer hackers. None of them were buff, well groomed, acne-free, and always with enough money to buy the latest computer equipment. They were physical wrecks, socially inept, and perpetually broke. One of them remarked to me of Sandra Bullock in The Net (released the same year), "No one eats take-out pizza every night and has thighs like that."
Of course, that's reality, not Hollywood, and no one would pay to see a bunch of people like that on the big screen. So we get Johnny Lee Miller and Angela Jolie, instead of John Candy and Shelley Duvall.
Lots of cool CGI and mean, greedy, and clueless older people. It's very watchable, if not particularly believable. With Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco, Felicity Huffman, and Penn Gillette.