I realize that for someone in my line of work, not having seen Sneakers until tonight is probably a gross violation of my geek creds. Or something. But, since my wife ditched me at the last minute tonight to go see Springsteen tonight, I decided to grab it and give it a watch. Not bad. I don’t have much to add, aside from that. I expected a better technology angle, but this is more about the ethics of hacking vs. the actual practice of it. It’s not Hackers or The Net. It doesn’t try to create “action” or “drama” out of the act of hacking into a computer itself, which makes it different.

I still think WarGames is the clear winner of the genre, but Sneakers has a good story with some of my favorite actors. Actually, the cast is unbelievable. River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Timothy Busfield, Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell are all very good in this movie… as they are in just about every movie they’re in.

And, I have to admit that they ended with the RNC bankrupt and Greenpeace, Amnesty, and the some other charities with all of their money got a snicker out of me. Even though I self-identified as a Republican back then, too.