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Hacker-Movie Review: Code Hunter
Code Hunter
Nick cornish, Vanessa Marcil, Bail Ling, Tone-Loc, Coolio, Adrian Paul
A giant storm controlled by satellites threatens to destroy both American coasts. The only one who can stop it is the renegade hacker known as the Jester. A virtual reality game gone haywire forces him into the deadliest, and most real game of his life.
MPAA Rating: Rated R for some language and violence
2002 100 min Color
I went to the local blockbuster to check out this "hacker" movie and see what it had to offer.
It was a mixture of "WarGames", "The Matrix", "The Hacker and the Ants", and "Nightmare on Elm Street"... with a second's worth of "Highlander".
The main character Jester is portrayed as quite and achieved and elite hacker, with plenty of rack mount systems in his studio apartment, of course his VR goggles, and his mad typing skills... there were plenty of DOS screens with garbage scrolling throughout... not html, not 1's and 0's, not BASIC... just pure non-printable characters!.. a lot of the times they would float back to a windows 95 screen with big GUI's that would say "LOGGING ON", to let the audience know they were logging on... etc. Of course Jester's domicile had everything voice activated including his bank account statements. Everything also appeared to go through some type of fast dialup system and maintain a more than real VR integrity.
Of course the movie begins with what is supposed to be a VR sequence of a game called "Shock", though the screens keep showing "AfterShock", and is supposed to be a spin-off of the game EverCrack, though I am sure to any type of legal crap they engineered anything to be somewhat the same but different enough. One of the cheesiest scenes I recall seeing were when all the "hackers" were lined up and all simultaneously opened an Energy drink to get that popeye power we all use!!... Of course Adrian Paul got about a two second shot wielding his sword, I could have sworn he was going to say "There can be only one"..
There were a few scenes put in to make a hacker look like a fool... one scene the main developer for "Thunderhead" (their version of the WOPR) says to Jester in confrontation "I used to be a hacker, until I got a life..."... and little hits like these were riddled throughout the movie... that is until towards the end where now all of a sudden everyone is bowing down the David Lightman, errr, I mean Jester (they even appear to have the same haircut)... Anyway it is worth watching if you enjoy hollywood-hacker-movies. I think I may add this to my collection of things to watch.
The movie isn't that bad if you don't think about things, but because of it being 2002, and all the other movies out there it went straight to video. Oh well.
... any other opinions?
Nick cornish, Vanessa Marcil, Bail Ling, Tone-Loc, Coolio, Adrian Paul
A giant storm controlled by satellites threatens to destroy both American coasts. The only one who can stop it is the renegade hacker known as the Jester. A virtual reality game gone haywire forces him into the deadliest, and most real game of his life.
MPAA Rating: Rated R for some language and violence
2002 100 min Color
I went to the local blockbuster to check out this "hacker" movie and see what it had to offer.
It was a mixture of "WarGames", "The Matrix", "The Hacker and the Ants", and "Nightmare on Elm Street"... with a second's worth of "Highlander".
The main character Jester is portrayed as quite and achieved and elite hacker, with plenty of rack mount systems in his studio apartment, of course his VR goggles, and his mad typing skills... there were plenty of DOS screens with garbage scrolling throughout... not html, not 1's and 0's, not BASIC... just pure non-printable characters!.. a lot of the times they would float back to a windows 95 screen with big GUI's that would say "LOGGING ON", to let the audience know they were logging on... etc. Of course Jester's domicile had everything voice activated including his bank account statements. Everything also appeared to go through some type of fast dialup system and maintain a more than real VR integrity.
Of course the movie begins with what is supposed to be a VR sequence of a game called "Shock", though the screens keep showing "AfterShock", and is supposed to be a spin-off of the game EverCrack, though I am sure to any type of legal crap they engineered anything to be somewhat the same but different enough. One of the cheesiest scenes I recall seeing were when all the "hackers" were lined up and all simultaneously opened an Energy drink to get that popeye power we all use!!... Of course Adrian Paul got about a two second shot wielding his sword, I could have sworn he was going to say "There can be only one"..
There were a few scenes put in to make a hacker look like a fool... one scene the main developer for "Thunderhead" (their version of the WOPR) says to Jester in confrontation "I used to be a hacker, until I got a life..."... and little hits like these were riddled throughout the movie... that is until towards the end where now all of a sudden everyone is bowing down the David Lightman, errr, I mean Jester (they even appear to have the same haircut)... Anyway it is worth watching if you enjoy hollywood-hacker-movies. I think I may add this to my collection of things to watch.
The movie isn't that bad if you don't think about things, but because of it being 2002, and all the other movies out there it went straight to video. Oh well.
... any other opinions?
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