The five best hacker films ever
Many think of a hacker as a lonely nerd. Hollywood, on the other hand, has long discovered the genre. We present you the five best hacker films.
The classic: "WarGames"
The WarGames film dates back to 1982, but the plot is still very topical. A gamer wants to hack into a game manufacturer to be able to play the latest games. Instead of the game manufacturer, the young man ends up in a system that houses a simulation called "Worldwide Thermonuclear War" in addition to chess and poker. What the hacker thinks is a game turns out to be a program that can be learned and that brings the world to the brink of nuclear war.
- The film highlights the dangers of hacking. It shows: It doesn't always have to be angry to do great damage.
- Also worth seeing after more than 30 years. The sequel WarGames 2 could not build on the success of the first part.
- Part 1 gets 7.1 out of 10 stars from IMDB, a large internet database for films and series.
"Sneakers - The Silent"
A hacker on the good side catches up with his past, which is not perfect. A group of IT experts lives by examining security systems in banks for gaps. The leader of the force is pressured by the NSA to take a delicate job.
- A film worth seeing, not least because of the good actors (eg Robert Redford). The plot remains exciting until the end, because nothing is as it seems.
- The IMDB users rate the film with a total of 7.1 out of 10 stars.
Really happened: "23 - Nothing is as it seems"
In 1998 the German director Hans-Christian Schmid filmed in 23 - Nothing is as it seems the so-called "KGB hack", a true occurrence. A group of hackers led by Karl Koch cracked a number of western computer systems between 1985 and 1989 on behalf of the KGB.
- Main actor Karl Koch gets lost in his search for meaning in drugs and conspiracy theories based on signs and numbers. His espionage work for the KGB is not based on greed, but on his belief in justice.
- The German thriller achieved 7.3 stars from over 5000 user ratings on IMDB.
Cult: "Hackers - On the FBI network"
Hackers is certainly one of the cult films about hacking - on the FBI network. After seven years of a compulsory break in terms of PC and hacking, the main character returns to the Internet on her 18th birthday. It is about worms and viruses - and in the finale about the union of all "good" hackers in the fight against the bad.
- The young Angelina Jolie also appears in the 1995 film.
- The plot is exciting, the soundtrack is appropriate - hacker fans will get their money's worth here.
- At IMDB, the drama doesn't get away as well as the competition; the film was only able to collect 6.2 stars from a remarkable 51, 000 ratings.
The mother of the hacker films: The Matrix trilogy
The hacker Neo who saves the world from the matrix. In a nutshell, the theme of the Matrix trilogy "Matrix", Matrix Reloaded "and" Matrix Revolution "Neo is contacted by a secret organization that tells him that the reality as he knows it does not exist. The Matrix only fakes this reality to people in order to keep it compliant.
$config[ads_text5] not found- An interesting, almost philosophical idea was implemented in an exciting way in the trilogy.
- Fascinating tricks and a very good cast not only made the films successful, they also achieved cult status.
- Many Matrix fans claim that the first part is the best film and successor is far less exciting. This is also confirmed by IMDB: While the original "Matrix" gets record-breaking 8.7 stars from over a million reviews and catapults itself into the top 20 of the best films, "Matrix Reloaded" (7.2 stars) and "Matrix Revolution (6.7 stars) only survive in the shadow of the first part.
We cannot answer whether we live in a matrix or our reality is the way it is. However, we can explain how you can identify (perhaps within a matrix) hacker attacks like fake iCloud mail.