I think Sneakers is STILL the most accurate movie about hacking/corporate espionage ever made. Not exactly "realistic" but you can tell they had very good technical advisors and the basic tradecraft is still pretty similar.
I'd love to say a Sneakers 2 made with similar attention to detail but set in 201X with Stingray boxes and cellphone hacking would be good, but I'm sure now hollywood would make the main character a loud fat black woman and all the "hacking" would just be CGI sparkles and nonsense technobabble.
I think Sneakers is STILL the most accurate movie about hacking/corporate espionage ever made. Not exactly "realistic" but you can tell they had very good technical advisors and the basic tradecraft is still pretty similar.
I'd love to say a Sneakers 2 made with similar attention to detail but set in 201X with Stingray boxes and cellphone hacking would be good, but I'm sure now hollywood would make the main character a loud fat black woman and all the "hacking" would just be CGI sparkles and nonsense technobabble.
Nah, a hackjob like that? They'll have two fat black women typing furiously on the same keyboard.
And then they scissor.
Basically imagine another remake of a Dan Akroyd classic: Ghostbusters 2016.