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+title = "Sneakers (1992)"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-07-29T21:12:00+02:00
+categories = ["reviews"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2011
+reviewSection = ["Movies"]
+image_dir = "reviews/screenshots"
+image_max_width = 765
+abstract = "My review"
+image = "reviews/covers/sneakers.jpg"
+rating = 4
+aliases = ["/brain-rot/hackers/sneakers-1992/"]
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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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+All in all: great cast, beautiful cinematography and interesting story.
+And the hacking isn't brain rotting!
+
+{{< image class="centered" alt="Blue computer screen reflecting in black glasses" file="sneakers-1.png" >}}
+Monitors reflected on glasses can not be not cool
+{{< /image >}}
+
+[^fn:1]: But nothing is
+[^fn:2]: This movie is so old, that viewer is expected to know what a phreaker is!