Dade Murphy was a bit of a trouble maker as a child, but alas, most children with exceptional intelligence often are. One day they're Mommy's little angle, the next thing you know they have created some crazy handle for themselves and hacked into some government computer system! Take for example, Dade, or should I say "Zero Cool," who at the age of eleven crashed 1507 systems, including Wall Street trading systems that caused a seven point drop in the New York stock market. Pretty smart kid, too bad he wasn't smart enough to evade capture. Our young Dade is let off relatively easy with a bunch of probationary restrictions and fines. Fucking minors . . . throw the book at 'em, I say! You think they are bad now, just wait, you'll wish you had gassed them till they died from electrocution!

Fast forward to the present day, 1995. Location; New York City. Dade and his mother have moved to the Big Apple just in time for his eighteenth birthday. Yes, now that Dade is legally an adult, he is no longer on probation and may resume those nasty habits. He wastes no time in creating a new catchy handle; "Crash Override." If you are a teenage computer super geek living in NYC in the year 1995, there're a few rules you have to abide by if you are not going to be socially persecuted. First, you're going to need a pair of roller blades. It's relatively new, hip, and the preferred mode of transportation for any respectable hacker. Second, you're going to need to find some BMX motocross equipment, shirt, pants, padding, etc. Not only will it protect you from those potentially nasty Roller Blade spills, but it's fashionable. As a computer geek, you are expected to make appearances at all raves, parties, and social happenings dressed to kill, and nothing will perfect that fierce entrance you're looking for than some motor cross gear. The third and last point; as a hacker you're going to have to have the hardware to do your sinful business. A lap-top, and not just any old lap-top, it's got to make statement! What you do is spend at least $2500.00 on a kick-ass machine and then you'll want to spray paint it in your own style. Don't forget the keyboard! Dade is now equipped with all the necessary gear to be quickly accepted as an "elite" in the local hacker community, befriending such colorful characters as the Phantom Phreak, Cereal Killer, and Lord Nikon. Everyone is friendly, and yet tension builds in a sexual and violent nature between Dade and Kate Libby, aka "Acid Burn," who is played by a young Angelina Jolie. These rapscallions are forced to put aside their differences to battle perhaps the most devastating acting tandem ever; Lorraine Bracco and Fisher Stevens are the Villains in this film, but their acting is pure evil!Not since doing Stallone week can I recall acting of this caliber. Will Dade and Kate find love or will the overwhelming terror of the performances of Bracco and Stevens tear these young hackers apart? Can a group of Goth roller-blading motor-cross cyber-geeks save the world? Do you have the guts to find out?!

Hamlin Grade 4.5

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