God, this movie is bad. And it's so much fun I can hardly stand it. Reasons why you should watch Hackers, in no particular order: 
<ul>
<li>A steaming 20-something Angelina Jolie, </li>
<li>A bleach-blonde Jonny Lee Miller (hubba hubba),</li>
<li>An ever awesome Matthew Lillard, who cranked his Lillardness up to 11,</li>
<li>A duo of DJ/hackers named Razor and Blade (feel free to cry),</li>
<li>An awesome and totally cliché GenX soundtrack, </li>
<li>"It's 1995 so we have to make an Eddie Vedder reference" (and it's totally awesome),</li>
<li>Fisher Stevens who acts out his entire part as if he's on steroids, </li>
<li>Did I mention Angelina Jolie? </li>
</ul>
Does this movie have any basis in any realm of conceivable realism? Nope. Is this even what actual hacking looks like? Oh puh-lease! Is it everything you could wish for in an hour and a half of pleasurable suspension of disbelief? Absolutely. 
Hackers is sexy and silly and every good kind of bad.
I gave you my recommendation. If you don't like this movie then there's nothing I can do about it.
(February 2017)