4/5 Track Down
  by C. A. Luster (Burke, VA USA)
I give this one three and half stars. This story is based on true incidents which adds to the movie realism. We are drawn into the movie and wonder how much of this played out in real life. Skeet Ulrich plays the hacker, Kevin Mitnick, that feels hacking is an innocent way to expose the governments shortcomings. The problem is he has downloaded government files and proprietary documents, therefore stolen, files from the top security analyst and others. Now of course these files expose that the analyst wasn't so innocent either, but that hardly justifies what Mitnick does. The hypocrisy with most of this is hackers would be hell bent for justice, revenge, or payback if someone stole their software. Overall good story, acting, camera work, and directing. Check out as rental, but you may want to add to your collection if you enjoy the hacker movies. Good quality DVD with decent replayability. If you enjoyed this catch "Hackers" and "Chill Factor".

CA Luster

4/5 Entertaining but not accurate.
  by Benjamin J. Denney
Its a very entertaining movie but the character and the facts and events were not what happened in reality. Look it up on wikipedia if your interrested in the truth, or watch "Freedom Downtime" from the "2600" group.

To the person below who said "Movies are never accurate dont expect it out of this one...." Ok lets make a movie about Osama flying some planes into a building, but before he hits them he lands and hands out ice-cream... because thats what really happened isnt it? or was it? If your going to tell a story tell it right in my opinion, why do you think Students are taught HISTORY in school and not issued TABLOIDS!

4/5 surprised me.
  by L. Santos (Los Angeles, CA)
this movie surprised me, i enjoyed it a lot more than i thought, and was actually on the edge of my seat. especially cause it's based on a true story and is quite accurate.

i watched it again a couple of weeks later and still enjoyed it and then i read "the fugitive game" (available at Amazon.com!!!) i got that book instead of the one the movie was based on, because of the comments of users and it was written by a third party so i felt it would be less biased.

ANYWAY, if you have any interest in computers and find "the art" of hacking to be interesting......check it out!
ah... the movie that is, not the "art of hacking", just something to live vicariously thru the movies!

4/5 A nice movie
  by Juan Quine Paz (Perú)
If you like, this "histories" about hacking, here you got some of what MAYBE happen with the capture of kevin mitnick...

I recomend it for perople who really like the type... go for it...

5/5 Great Suspense Thriller!
  by Walt Dittrich Jr. (Las Vegas, NV)
A really great hacker film that becomes a cat-and-mouse edge-of-your-seat thriller. In the spirit of War Games and Sneakers, this film is exciting, thrilling, and fast-paced.
I don't care how accurate it is, THIS is a great movie!

8-17-06.
Walt D in LV