"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe that it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."
Iain Softley

Producer filmography

1. BackBeat
2.The Wings of a Dove

The director of Hackers, Iain Softly, is better known for his other movies, BackBeat and The Wings of a Dove.
These are both complicated and wonderful romances set against fascinating circumstances. When the average movie-goer sees
Hackers, however, he or she don't see a romance,he or she sees a youth-oriented computer-adventure movie. What this person misses,
however, is that the evil plot set in motion by The Plague, portrayed by Fisher Stevens, and the ha c king sub-culture of
urban New York are not the main focus, but merely a setting for the romance between Dade Murphy (Johnny Lee Miller), and Kate
Libby (Angelina Jolie). This is a shame, because not only is this a wonderful movie when viewed in that light , it is one of the
most compelling love stories ever documented on film. Titanic looks like Resevoir Dogs in comparison. Though some of the
dialogue is downhoofd corny, and the villains are notably one-dimensional, Hackers deserved better than it got. Plus , the
soundtrack rocks, so there's that too.