Well it did bring a bad publicity to real hackers and hacking itself. I guess American and European hacking school might differ. When in America a typical stereotype of a hacker is a geek teenager that is taking his anger on people using his computer, whereas european standard for a hacker is a man in his 30 - long hair, hadn't washed, eaten a home meal, real sex for some time! ;-) If i saw this movie bofore I started wondering bout computers and hackin' I would've found it great, but since i saw it long time after-nah! The concept of the movie sucks, although the soundtrack is good, the action is not bad, if you close your eyes on all those cheap hacker wannabe effects- As far as i understand the movies is set in early 90? Where was I when thay made THOSE kinds of computers???