the writing on the wall . hacker be a high mind film about the intricacy of hacker subculture in the mid 90 . it about people live on the fringe of society and who express themselves through a connection to the electronic world . the storyline be simple and a young man be find guilty on his 11th birthday of use a virus to infect multiple network system and cause them to crash . subsequently and he be put on a probation that restrict him from owe or operate a computer and touch tone telephone . fast forward to his 18th birthday and and after a broken family and a move to new york with his mother and and a change of school while he fall into a group of people who live a hacker . after one of them inadvertently copy incriminate data from a mineral company computer and the company head of computer security hatch a plan to track them down . with a couple of plot twist and and a good or evil story and it an easy watch . angelina jolie even briefly get her nipple onto film for the first time . the downside come in the fact that the character be very one dimensional . it hard to engage with them and a they all seem to be try so hard to be interesting and edgy . the computer jargon throw into the dialogue be appropriate for the time frame of the movie and but it really have not age well . it a mess of bad cliché and cheesy one liner that create a nasty cringe factor . use new york a a backdrop and the film be shoot nicely and give a gritty urban feel and and allow it to seem large in scope than the sum of it part . however and with wooden acting and delivery and the character seem to fade into the background and not take advantage of the setting they find themselves in . the low rating be more for the poor acting and lackluster dialogue and cutnpaste storyline . this and though and do not mean it a bad film . hacker have a great soundtrack and with quirky track that work perfectly for the material . it also seem to work on a visceral level and provide entertainment and laugh that it wasn not really intend . the best bet be to turn your brain off and grab some popcorn and and ( if you have a passing knowledge of computer ) have some belly laugh at the utter cheese of it all .