Entering a highly secured computer at a mineral corporation, a newbie hacker uncovers an embezzling plot that could destroy the world’s ecosystem. When the hacker and his pals are targeted for the crime, they must launch a cyber-attack that will clear their names and prevent an ecological disaster.

The Nintendo generation gets anarchic in this outrageously enjoyable cult throwback, which pits Angelina Jolie’s laptop-wielding, pixie-cutted hacktivist against digital corporate chicanery. Hackers immortalises the tech-utopianism of the early internet era with punky subcultural style.