Random Most Ridiculous Movie Hacking Scenes (14 items)

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  (#4) Superman III

  • Richard Pryor, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Annette O'Toole, Robert Vaughn, Pamela Stephenson, Jackie Cooper, Annie Ross, David Winning, Marc McClure, Gavin O'Herlihy

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Programmer Gus, played by comedy legend Richard Pryor, hacks his company's financial system in order to siphon off unaccounted for half-cents from paychecks.

  How Long Does It Take? 34 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? Gus infiltrates the system with ease by using the command "OVERRIDE ALL SECURITY." Considering he works for a multinational corporation named Webscoe, this seems a little unrealistic. It only takes a few keystrokes for him to amass the extra funds. He then employs a bulky stylus with a long, curled cord to work some touchscreen wizardry.
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  (#5) Weird Science

  • Robert Downey Jr., Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Anthony Michael Hall, Kym Malin, Michael Berryman, John Kapelos, Wallace Langham, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Vernon Wells, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Robert Minkoff, Robert Rusler, Ivor Barry, Chino 'Fats' Williams, Phillip Borsos, Renee Props, Pamela Gordon, Suzanne Snyder, Rick Le Fevour, Britt Leach, Kevin Thompson, Joe Gieb, Prince Hughes, Jennifer Balgobin, Rock A. Walker, Fred D. Scott, Johnny Timko, Jill Whitlow, Mary Steelsmith, Darren Harris, Anne Bernadette Coyle, Mikul Robins, Todd Hoffman, D'Mitch Davis, Vince Townsend Jr., Suzy J. Kellems, Barbara Lang, John Simone, Theodocia Goodrich, Jeff Jensen, Alison Carole Lowe, Robin Frohman, Doug MacHugh, Michael Cramer

  What's Gettin' Hacked? High school nerds Gary and Wyatt siphon power from a large government computer system in order to give Wyatt's wimpy PC a boost.

  How Long Does It Take? 41 seconds.

  What's Their Hacking Style? These characters in a John Hughes rom-com have hatched a plan to design and bring to life their own dream woman. By connecting a doll to electrodes and creating a power surge, their woman, Lisa, is born. First, they contend with the administrator of the local government computer system after inserting an unmarked '80s floppy disk into Wyatt's computer and dialing into the system. Navigating an absurd series of colorful 3D portals, Wyatt gains access to the system, funneling its power into his weird science project.

  It's true that hacking into bigger computer systems to exploit their strengths is common practice, but the visual elements depicted here are unreal and silly. On top of the somewhat questionable physics of creating a live human-looking woman out of a toy doll through "computerousness."
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  (#7) Transformers

  • Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Odette Annable, Hugo Weaving, Jon Voight, Josh Duhamel, Rachael Taylor, Bernie Mac, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Colton Haynes, Mike Fisher, Anthony Anderson, Tom Lenk, Zack Ward, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Kevin Dunn, Charlie Adler, Amaury Nolasco, Travis Van Winkle, Darius McCrary, Robert Foxworth, Chris Ellis, Julie White, Bob Stephenson, Glenn Morshower, J. P. Manoux, William Morgan Sheppard, Peter Jacobson, Rizwan Manji, Reno Wilson, Omar Benson Miller, Nicole Randall Johnson, Madison Mason, Rick Gomez, Tom Everett, Mark Ryan, Josh Feinman, Colin Fickes, Andy Milder, Aaron Michael Lacey, Michael O'Neill, Arne Starr, Steven Ford, Andrew Caldwell, Brian Stepanek, Esther Scott, John Robinson, James C. Burns, Michael Shamus Wiles, Wiley M. Pickett, Sean Smith, C. J. Thomason, Michael J. Fisher, Johnny Sanchez, Ravi Patel, Cade Courtley, James D. Weston II, Colleen Porch, Craig Barnett, James Blackburn, Carlos Moreno Jr., Michelle Pierce, Jamison Yang, Jason White, Paul Michael Bloodgood, Samantha Smith, Pete Gardner, Jamie McBride, Scott Peat, Chip Hormess, Luis Echagarruga, Matt Cannon, Sean Hampton, Tavia Schwartz, Mark Bedell, Geoffrey M. Reeves, Seth Miller, Kevin Carvell, Shawn Lecrone, Brian Prescott, Ronnie Sperling, Kyle Saylors, Mike Allen, Michael Trisler, Joel Lambert, Patrick Mulderrig, Brian Reece, Laurel Garner, Frederic Doss, Jimmie Wood, Jeremy Jojola, Matt Noble, Brian Shehan, Stuart G Murphy, Andy Domingues, Michael Adams, Mary Decaro, Jessica Kartalija, Ron Henry, Charlie Bodin, James R. Petix, Ashkan Kashanchi, Maja Kljun, Sophie Bobal, Ray Toth, Michael McNabb, Ron Mitchell, Andrew Altonji, Mason Rock Bay, Adam Ratajczak

  What's Gettin' Hacked? Frenzy the Decepticon boards Air Force One and uses its robotic transformation powers to hack into the military's encrypted, top-secret database system.

  How Long Does It Take? 1 minute, 28 seconds before the military terminates the alien's connection, but it's able to download quite a few files after it breaks in.

  What's Its Hacking Style? There's nothing realistic about tracking "hacking sounds," which a sound specialist at the Pentagon does when Frenzy gains entry. The visual display on the computer screen Frenzy is using, questionably located in the storage room of the president's personal airplane, is flashy and image-based rather than a long string of code. The red progress bar, denoting a race against the clock, adds drama to this big-budget action flick.
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  (#14) WarGames

  • Matthew Broderick, William H. Macy, Ally Sheedy, Michael Madsen, Dabney Coleman, Maury Chaykin, John Spencer, Barry Corbin, John Wood, James Tolkan, Art LaFleur, Jason Bernard, Michael Ensign, Eddie Deezen, Alan Blumenfeld, Dennis Lipscomb, Drew Snyder, Kent Williams, Stephen Lee, Frances E. Nealy, Michael Adams, Tom Lawrence, Stack Pierce, William Bogert, Billy Ray Sharkey, Juanin Clay, Joe Dorsey, Jesse D. Goins, Irving Metzman, John Garber, Lucinda Crosby, Charles Akins, David Clover, Paul V. Picerni Jr., Brad David, Erik Stern, James Ackerman, Frankie Hill, Gary Bisig, Edward Jahnke, Susan Davis, Glenn Standifer, Duncan Wilmore, Howie Allen, Martha Shaw, Gary Sexton, Jim Harriott

  What's Gettin' Hacked? The grading records at David Lightman's Seattle high school.

  How Long Does It Take? 53 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? This young hacker, played by a charming Matthew Broderick, tries to impress his crush by dialing into the school's computer system in order to alter their grades. While the scene is filled with '80s phone and computer sounds, it isn't over the top or unrealistic in its portrayal of a teenaged home hacker using his personal rig to mess around with vulnerable operating systems and databases.

  WarGames is hailed as one of the few films to get hacking in its early days right, and its release in 1983 caused the US government to assess its own technological weaknesses.
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  (#3) The Core

  • Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Aaron Eckhart, Alfre Woodard, Richard Jenkins, Shawn Green, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, nm0702809, Tchéky Karyo, Rekha Sharma, Glenn Morshower, Matt Winston, Jeffrey Gold, Hrothgar Mathews, Vanna Bonta, Fred Ewanuick, Christopher Shyer, Rick Kain, Anthony Harrison, Alec Medlock, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Alonso Oyarzun, Pamela Martin, Fred Keating, John Shaw, Ray Galletti, Chris Humphreys, Claire Riley, Alejandro Abellan, Robert Manitopyes, Laurie Murdoch, Eileen Pedde, Dion Johnstone, Michael St. John Smith, Tom Scholte, Priscilla Poland, Nicole Leroux, Bart Anderson, Jennifer Spence, Marke Driesschen, Lenie Scoffié, Justin Callan, Angelica Hayden, Robert Paul Lewis, Greg Bennett, Nickolas Baric, Ming-Tzong Hong, Ermanno De Biagi, Monique Martel, Marcello Laurentis, Roberto Roberto, Costa Spanos, Rosa Di Brigida

  What's Gettin' Hacked? The cell phone belonging to geophysicist and protagonist Josh Keyes.

  How Long Does It Take? 39 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? This is the ultimate Hollywood hardware hack. Anti-authority hackster Rat, played by DJ Qualls, impresses his captors by using a gum wrapper as a conduit to blow into Keyes's phone, somehow granting it "free long distance for life." The trick succeeds, and Rat gets to work on saving the planet, one mouse click at a time. What else would you expect from a movie about scientists who travel to the inner core of the planet to figure out why it's no longer rotating?
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  (#1) Swordfish

  • Halle Berry, John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones, Sam Shepard, Drea de Matteo, Tim DeKay, Tate Donovan, Natalia Sokolova, William Mapother, Zach Grenier, Camryn Grimes, Timothy Omundson, Rudolf Martin, Carmen Argenziano, Angelo Pagan, Gary Rodriguez, Ilia Volok, Margaret Travolta, Nick Loren, Kirk B. R. Woller, Scott Burkholder, Jonathan Fraser, George Marshall Ruge, Jeff Ramsey, Marina Black, Anika Poitier, Leo Lee, Denney Pierce, Dean Duval, Tait Ruppert, Dana Hee, Joey Box, Craig Braun, Kevin F. Sherry, Alex Morissen, Russ Cootey, Chic Daniel, Cory Parella, Mark Riccardi, Shawn Woods, Mark Soper, Laura Lane, Andrew Lakey, Astrid Veillon, Sam Travolta, Tim Storms, Ryan Wulff, Craig Lally, Corinne Chooey, Kerry Kletter, Mark Donnell, Debbie Evans, Sierra Farber, Travis Rosario, Ann Travolta, Jonathan Pessin, Mimi Fletcher, Debbie Entin, Rusty McClennon, Brenda Eimers, Tom Morris, George A. Chase, Jason Christopher, Richard Householder, Michael Arias

  What's Gettin' Hacked? The world's best hacker, Stanley Jobson, has one minute to infiltrate the Department of Defense's secure server while being... distracted.

  How Long Does It Take? 1 minute, 7 seconds.

  What's His Hacking Style? Stanley is forced to hack into the Department of Defense's server with a trigger to his head and a woman unzipping his pants in a slightly nonconsensual manner. While bad guy Gabriel, played by John Travolta with blond highlights and a soul patch, and his cronies watch, Stanley sloppily and nonsensically smashes his fingers against the keyboard of the strangely shaped laptop he's been given while strings of numbers and letters scroll across the screen.

  While the data sequence may look technical, professional hackers who've analyzed the scene say it's a massive mess.

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