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Critics Consensus: There isn't much to Sneakers plot and that's more than made up for with the film's breezy panache and hi-tech lingo.
Critic Consensus: There isn't much to Sneakers plot and that's more than made up for with the film's breezy panache and hi-tech lingo.
All Critics (51) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (11) | DVD (5)
Makes up for its gaps in logic with its breezy tone and its technological razzledazzle.
Right up to an ending designed to crack the sternest critical poker face, this is gourmet popcorn of the highest order.
The performances are generally quite bad.
Discounting his god-awful American accent, Kingsley is in fine venomous form.
It's a sometimes entertaining movie, but thin.
It's a Twinkie for techies, an enormously entertaining time-waster.
This is basically dumb fun with a veneer of smart fun... Fast-paced, utterly enjoyable.
The movie would probably swing along fine as an out-and-out spoof or a serious thriller, but instead it lacks force in either direction.
Despite its dream-team cast, the loosely laced "Sneakers" stumbles badly as both a comedy and as thriller.
It's a surprise to discover a cerebral, 25-year-old film following the blueprint for today's endless glut of superhero movies.
A smart, smooth technological thriller.
Geriatric hi-tech action-packed spoof caper film that starts out semi-believable and ends on an unbelievable low point.
It is extraordinarily corny, and the screenwriting is quite mediocre, yet the film does engage with an interesting, complex plot and thrilling sequences.
Super Reviewer
Behind the unlikely story of the possibilities of a codebreaking device that works sorta like a universal remote is simply a charisma piece that exists so we can pal around with the stars for a moment. A nice evening with friends.
A team of hackers must steal a mysterious black box. At the time, before the Internet became as ubiquitous as it is, this must have seemed cutting edge and revolutionary. Today, it doesn't play as well and must rely on the strength of its cast, which, on first glance, promises to be quite good. But midway through the film, I got the feeling that these were just actors having fun being actors. What results is a fairly basic thriller/comedy, and while it's entertaining, in the words of one critic, "There's precious little that will stay with you." Overall, Sneakers is a decent way to waste two hours, but don't go looking for anything more than light-hearted entertainment.
A great cast, but not a good enough story to back it up. It's not exactly a comedy or a drama, but something stuck between. However, the biggest problem lies in the poor execution of the plot and highly unimaginative film making. It's extremely mediocre.
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