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Sneakers: still a great light-hearted technology caper movie

The light-hearted technology caper movie Sneakers came with an all-start cast including Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley and many more.

Sneakers DVD coverBut most importantly this 1992 movie came with a great script that relies on smarts and wit rather than over-dramatic action.

Although technology has moved on, its core ideas (especially the question of quite what the NSA is getting up to with its snooping) are still very relevant. As one of the computer hackers says:

It’s not about who has the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear. How we work. What we think. It’s all about the information.

Yet for all the occasional seriousness, this is really one to watch for fun, right from the anagrams in the opening titles and especially for the famous scene where the route that kidnappers took with Robert Redford in the trunk of their car is recreated by dissecting the sounds he heard along the way.

Great fun.

If you like this, you might also be interested in Three Days of the Condor.

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