Sneakers
Phil Alden Robinson
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Plot Summary
Robert Redford leads an all-star cast in one of the most satisfying suspense films! Computer expert Martin Bishop (Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers - including a former CIA employee (Sidney Poitier), a gadgets wizard (Dan Aykroyd), a young genius (River Phoenix) and a blind soundman (David Strathairn) - who are routinely hired to test security systems. But Bishop's past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: tracking down an elusive black box. Along with his former girlfriend (Mary McDonnell), Bishop's team retrieves the box and makes a stunning discovery - the device can break into any computer system in the world. With factions from all sides willing to kill for the powerful box, Bishop and his team embark on their most dangerous assignment ever in this exhilarating high-tech caper from Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams).
Credits
Director
Screenwriters
- Phil Alden Robinson
- Walter F. Parkes
- Lawrence Lasker
Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
81%- Reviews Counted: 47
- Fresh: 38
- Rotten: 9
- Average Rating: 6.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The performances are generally quite bad.
Fresh: Discounting his god-awful American accent, Kingsley is in fine venomous form.
Fresh: Makes up for its gaps in logic with its breezy tone and its technological razzledazzle.
Fresh: If you think of Sneakers as a slick, updated Mission: Impossible, it's a lot of fun.
Customer Reviews
Entertaining
This isn't a complicated movie to understand. It is pleasant, entertaining and full of recognisable & good actors in a movie based on the concept (or fear of) global computerisation.
10/10 movie, 8.5/10 video quality
I love this movie but the video quality looks like someone hooked up a VCR to a computer and transfered it.. :(
What a great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a great caper film with an incredible cast!! i mean it, a great date movie or night in with a pint of ice cream kind of flick. Not only does it boast a cast of over 5 Oscar winners and nominees, it is one of the last films that River Pheonix was in. it is a great story about all the misdirection and clever thinking in the spyworld, without being a guys only movie. This film shows that a wonderful script and inventive storyline can stand on it's own and through the test of time. seriously rent or buy it, you won't be disappointed!
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- $9.99
- Genre: Action & Adventure
- Released: 1998
- © 2008 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
