This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency. Robert Redford plays the group's guru, an ageing techno-anarchist who has been hiding from the feds since the early 1970s; his companionable gang of freaks includes Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, the late River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, as a veteran CIA operative turned... "sneaker." The technological black box that everybody is after, an array of computer chips that can decode any encrypted message, isn't a very plausible invention, but it's a serviceable McGuffin, and the megalomania of the master plotter played by Ben Kingsley has more resonance than most. Modest inferences can be drawn about the very latest high-tech threats to civil liberties. --David Chute, Amazon.com [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. 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 into 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 into his exhilarating high-tech caper from Phil Alden Robinson. Actors Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Mary McDonnell, David Strathairn, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Stephen Tobolowsky, Donal Logue & George Hearn Director Phil Alden Robinson Certificate 15 years and over Year 1992 Screen Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic Languages English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish - Dolby Digital Surround Subtitles English ; French ; Portuguese ; Danish ; Finnish ; Swedish ; Norwegian ; Dutch ; German ; Polish ; Czech Duration 2 hours (approx)
Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) is the head of 'Sneakers', a computer group who test security systems. However, his political activist past catches up with him when the government use it as a lever to force him into doing some of their hi-tech dirty work. Bishop and his team reluctantly comply, only to discover that the missing black box they have been hired to retrieve can break into any computer system in the world!
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