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- Mr. Cranky rates Hackers
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- Hackers
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- Mr. Cranky's rating: (4 Bombs)
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- Fisher Stevens's claim to fame is that he spent years riding Michelle
- Pfeiffer's coattails only to be finally cut loose into obscurity as the
- forgotten half of another doomed Hollywood relationship. Every time
- Michelle would appear on Entertainment Tonight attending another gala
- premiere the comment that echoed throughout the land like the explosion of
- a nuclear bomb was: "Who's that little weasely guy next to Michelle?"
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- Given that Fisher has the build and presence of an anorexic supermodel, it
- probably made complete sense to some mongoloid film executive to cast him
- in the part of a villain in this Cyberspace/Dance Club flick. Since in real
- life Fisher is about as frightening as a drooling puppy (OH MY GOD!! IT'S A
- DROOLING PUPPY!! EVERYBODY HEAD FOR SHELTER!!), you might as well make him
- a villain in cyberspace where he might, if he tries very, very hard, at
- least be able to tweak somebody's pride.
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- As "The Plague," Stevens is the antagonist to teenage hackers Dade (Johnny
- Lee Miller) and Kate (Angelina Jolie). "The Plague" plans to blackmail his
- own company by threatening a worldwide environmental disaster wrought by a
- computer virus.
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- Carrying the idea of "War Games" into the realm of the ridiculously stupid,
- director Iain Softley fashions a world where everything is accessible by
- computer. Kids can spit money out of teller machines, change their grades
- and disable people's credit cards with the touch of a button. Softley
- obviously thought making a decent movie would be as easy.
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