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-title = "Hacker movies"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
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-title = "Sneakers (1992)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
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-_Sneakers_ is a 1992 movie starring a huge cast of brightest stars about penetrating testers hired by NSA to recover a Russian-founder black box codename "Setec Astronomy".
-Things get complicated and (as it was in the 90s) full of conspiracies.
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-I watched this film _only_ because it is about hackers.
-And let me tell you, I did not leave disappointed.
-We sure got some red team hacking.
-Computers get hacked, doors get unlocked, cameras get taped.
-If this is all you want - sure, _Sneakers_ is great.
-All of those actions are believable, hackers are not the scum of the earth (as they tend to be in later movies) and it's just plain cool.
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-What I was not expecting was a great plot!
-It's clear that the task is not what it seems.
-It's not X-Files level of conspiracy within conspiracy[^fn:1], but we've sure got some rollercoaster of those.
-It <span class="underline">is</span> the 90s, so government are evil and private business is good, but even being raised on those ideas, I had a blast.
-Even after the _evil mastermind_ laves the shadow, it doesn't break anything.
-It may be a bit too-obvious, but what the hell. 80% of the story is great.
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-And the movie is simply beautiful.
-It has _that_ 90s look, which can not be reproduced with modern digital effects.
-But the camera work is stop-on.
-When I pressed "play" on this hacker movie, I was not expecting such A-game.
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-But as the movie started to show its cast, it was obvious - this was to be a blockbuster.
-An _Ocean's 11_ for the cyberage.
-Just look at the poster - Robert Redford is here!
-But, for me, Dan Aykroyd and David Strathairn stole each scene they were in.
-Aykroyd played Mother, a young hacker and conspiracy theorist ("the moon landing was fake" kind of, not "Melissa Lavigne"), and Strathairn played Whistler, a deaf phreaker[^fn:2].
-Both played just the perfect amount of over-the-top characters - anything more, and they would be annoying.
-Everyone knew when to stop.
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-All in all: great cast, beautiful cinematography and interesting story.
-And the hacking isn't brain rotting!
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-Monitors reflected on glasses can not be not cool
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-[^fn:1]: But nothing is
-[^fn:2]: This movie is so old, that viewer is expected to know what a phreaker is!