cliché be the key word here . the computer that have no basis in reality and except for a few screen shot from macintosh while the kooky hacker type who wear battlestar galactica inspire jacket and new wavey clothes while the evil villain and his secret service style minion while the edgy attraction ( be they gon na get together by the end . ) between the two main character and etc . stylistically and it doesn not even seem relevant to mid 90 hacker culture at all . one wonder if there be any research involve in the script . the computer operate system be more like tron then what they really should be and which be a bunch of window or unix machine with boring information display in a pedestrian and boring manner on regular crt . the plot be very predictable and lack any suspense . you know how it go to turn out . this would have make an ok make for television flick .