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Highly Overrated But Still Good

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This movie is hilarious. It reminds me a classic Simpsons episode (when The Simpsons were good). In the ninth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season (Homer: Bad Man), Homer has a misunderstanding with the babysitter and the media portray him as a sexual offender who crushes cats with his car and tries to abuse a school girl, showing no respect for any law or moral at all. If you know Homer then you should've laughed your face off with this episode like I did (and I still do).That's exactly what we have here. In one hand, Tsutomu Shimomura (Russell Wong): a young and handsome hacker who works as a security expert in a very important software company, rich, successful and married with a gorgeous blonde. In the other hand, Kevin Mitnick (Skeet Ulrich): a sneaky black-hat hacker with no home, no money, no ethics, no wife, no social life and not even a nickel to make a phone call. Eventually, Mitnick meets Shimomura and feels jealous of his perfect life, unleashing a personal vendetta against him and stealing personal data which, in the wrong hands, could compromise the world's systems security. Then begins a cat-and-mouse game where the righteous Shimomura has to stop the evil Mitnick from starting a kind of digital Armageddon.And that's why this movie is so funny! It's loosely based in the books "Take-Down" by Tsutomu Shimomura and "Cyberpunk" by John Markoff, both of them no more than the authors' point of view for the chase and capture of Kevin Mitnick by the FBI at the end of the 90's. Personally I've followed the Mitnick case with certain interest and read both books as well as Mitnick's "Ghost In The Wires", and I can say that this movie is so far from reality that ends up being comical.This is not a bad movie, but that's all. It's a fictional history where a god guy tries to catch a bad guy, and if you are familiar with the Kevin Mitnick case and/or the "FREE KEVIN" movement, you're going to have a bigger picture and even enjoy the movie much more.

Without going deep into the the story I can say that if you want to know about the real world under your computer and the privacy that never been out there you're In the right place. The movie Takedown will show you a small piece of hacking in the past and maybe the name "history of hacking" can be correct too.you can find some of the items from the movie in the spy-shops around so in my opinion just for the knowledge the movie must be seen. In the movie there are some point who are too stuck ,and some time there is no point for long focus in one position. I can see by the movie the vision of the creator ,and he did understand the story and the "How" not like many times in movies without any contact to the reality ,however he failed in focusing too much on the technology and mess the option to show how really hacker feel against and from the authorities.Enjoy

The movie is fine, but what makes me flush it down the drain is that the people creating it portray it as a true story, when it is in fact BS! Kevin Mitnick never caused money loss or economical losses for the companies claimed. He sat locked down without contact to the world. 3 years without trial, probation or bail. FREE KEVIN. He did hack into companies to get code for the reason of doing it. This is a crime usually punished with a fine or a month in jail. Kevin sat inside until 2000, and got to use the internet not until 2003. This man is a hacker yes, not a cracker. The justice system is about who wins a case, the federal government or you. John Markoff at the NY Times made Kevin so famous with his ignorant articles that the government couldn't afford to loose this one. Kevin is a true product of the American ways, stupid morons that have no idea how to use a computer sit and try to educate the people who do, hackers, by using there money, influence and power to shut them down. Imagine the argument the government gave for Kevin being in solitary today, "if he so much as has access to a payphone, he can call a certain number and whistle a certain frequency to create a nuclear war". This is one of the reasons Kevin sat in jail for! What bullshit, big brother sees you and then some more. Free Kevin Mitnick.www.2600.comFREE KEVINWatch Freedom Downtime instead.

Although when i first watched the film i liked it. although i then found out the truth about the Kevin Mitchnick story. And this film is bull Pooh and doesn't portray the truth. if your interested watch freedom downtime i have seen it and they interview Kevin in it to get the truth don't go by the plot of this film. Also if anyone has any more information about Kevin and general stuff along these lines you can send to me greatly appreciated i thought id clear the rumour about it being a follow up of hacker its not can people please not make that assumption its not its an independent filmthanks Yoda_the_jedi Northamptonshire u.k