You won't be disappointed!

Wow! Such a good movie.

How sad is this?

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The casting is excellent and no single actor dominates the movie. It combines comedy and action to just the right degree. Will always watch if I stumble across it on tv.

Boring, "click ctrl+shift+enter to steal money from bank" movie. It's "simplified" for the general population, but if you have any idea how tech works, the script will be hard to swallow. If you work in IT field, you'll probably suffer minor nervous breakdown while watching this movie.

I thought this was a GREAT film when it released and saw it a few times - I guess I was 16 or so at the time.Seeing it again it is a by-the-numbers caper film. James Horner's music sets the mood often over-the-top intense or super light "boy's adventure"... There is a lot of 'humor' which is very light and usually very dry. I think this film, despite it's being a tricksy one is best for oldies who can keep up.The story is a simple double caper setup - steal the goods and then steal them again except harder. But anyone watching will notice that for a bunch of crack security experts the characters behave a little stupidly...Plot holes, occasional sub-par dialogue, out-of-place music and characters that are a bit dull this remains a solid, undemanding thriller.

If you don't like the human aspects of the movie which is about people who break into systems, move on. I picked this film up on VCR tape with no idea what it was about from a good-will store for $0.75. I consider the price the rental fee and normally take most of the films back so they can resell them and make more money. I kept this one for a few more viewings since it caught the ambivalent spirit of that post cold-war era and have watched it several times. Whistler is patterned after a blind guy that was in on the phone phreaking phenomenon in the 1970s. His real name was Josef Carl Engressia Jr. He was known as Joybubbles. Rather than using the whistle in the Captain Crunch cereals (started by John Draper, alias Captain Crunch) or like some later people who used the blue box he was able to do it all with his own whistling and had perfect pitch. The end of the 60s is really stretching when the kind of breaking in they were doing would have put Cosmo in prison. It really didn't start until the late 70s and early 80s in a significant way. But the DES encryption which would be about the best they had in 1992 was getting long in tooth. DES was created in the 70s with everything finalized around 1977. 3DES and Blowfish encryption algorithms didn't occur until the end of the 90s. So dedicated hardware to break DES was in the realm of possibility. I have news for you people. The breaking of this encryption is not going to be done by Windows machines. It would have to be done with specialized hardware and may not be in the realm of possibility now or then. But your chances for breaking DES in 1995-97 with dedicated hardware would be excellent. But that just shows that there is a lot of bragging among these crackers to con you into believing they are a lot smarter and more able than they really are. Most of the rest of the technical stuff was also stretching it quite a bit. But it was humorous to see these "brilliant" people not knowing what was happening for a good portion of the movie. They bring it to a humorous close at the end. Is Tahiti in Europe? All I want is a phone number. The movie is worth watching a few times. But for somebody who knows that the recent crack (which does not mean broken) of AES-256 has actually made it and AES-192 symmetric encryption more vulnerable than AES-128 I have to tell you to take all of the technical aspects with a grain of salt. How is it possible that a smaller block size equates to more security? They are stretching it to what they claim they can do, not to what they are really able to do. But aren't most movies a lot of make believe?