SNEAKERS
A film review by Roger Snappy Rubio
Copyright 1992 Roger Snappy Rubio
Starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, and David Strathairn Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
This movie was a pure treat. It reminded me a lot of WARGAMES with Matthew Broderick. It's got a lot of humor and a lot of government bashing. Everything a movie-goer could want. And its also got a lot of gadgets.
SNEAKERS is the story of two computer hackers who in the late 60's set out to take on the world from behind their CRT's. The only problem is that one of them gets arrested, and through a stroke of luck, the other gets away. This other, played by Robert Redford, later gets involved with a group of very talented people, all from different vocations and all possessing some sort of secret. Their job is to break into people's places so that the people who had their place broken into know how to prevent others from breaking in. They are "hired" by the National Security Agency to obtain an ultimate code-breaker, only to find that the people that hired them are not from the NSA, and the rest is secret.
This movie is a very good execution of the now popular "ensemble movie." All the actors are believable in their roles, and there is plenty of humor going around. There is also plenty of talent (as far as the characters are concerned), which is always a big draw at the box office. You can have humor, but you must also have professionalism and realism. The American audience demands it, and SNEAKERS delivers. I thought it was a wonderful movie because I love gadgets, especially ones that can tell your stress level or ones that can decode any encryption. But never fear to the average movie-goer; this movie is *not* loaded down with a lot of techno-mumbo-jumbo. It's basically a high-stakes romp, and it is a good crowd pleaser. After all, it scored very high in test screenings!
So if gadgetry, conspiracy, and humor are your game, check out SNEAKERS. If you don't, you may never know what the government is up to....
THE SNAPMAN
rsnappy@hydra.unm.edu
(Roger Rubio)
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