Hacker (2016)

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Callan McAuliffe

Alex

Lorraine Nicholson

Kira

Daniel Eric Gold

Sye

Clifton Collins Jr.

Zed

Zachary Bennett

Curtis

Vlada Verevko

Alex's Mother

Genadijs Dolganovs

Alex's Father

Aidan Besu

6-year-old Alex

Rian Michelsen

13-year-old Alex

Kristian Truelsen

Federal Reserve Chairman

Greg Hovanessian

Randy Bickle

Allyson Pratt

Robin

James Cade

Chris

Darryl Flatman

Tommy

Randy Thomas

Randy The Car Dealer

Birgitte Solem

Cute 'Banker Woman'

Simon Northwood

Mob Buyer

Dinmukhamed Rakysh

Hong Kong ATM Finder

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Trivia
The director and producer first spoke about the story in June 2013. By August the film was fully financed, and a year later, the film was fully completed. It shot in Toronto, New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kazakhstan, edited in Los Angeles, and finished in Toronto.

Goofs
The Australian actor playing Alex refers to himself early in the movie as an "adult" with an accent on the second syllable, while every Canadian--including Ukrainian and Russian immigrants--would place the accent on the first syllable. In other words, he was using an American accent after having supposedly grown up in Canada according to the plot.

Quotes
Stock Exchange Research: You know, ever since the banks started to suffer these cyber-attacks, the market has been shaky. Fortunately, the federal reserve chairman started to pull more money into the economy and things started to stabilize, better housing, less taxes, more money for you, more money for me, more money for all of us.

Connections
References Darkwing Duck (1991)

Soundtracks
24 Ghosts III
Performed by Nine Inch Nails
Written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Published by FORM AND TEXTURE, INC
UNIVERSAL MUSIC PLUBLISHING CANADA on behalf of SONGS OF UNIVERSAL INC
Administered by KOBALT MUSIC PUBLISHING AMERICA INC
Courtesy of THE NULL CORPORATION

Doesn't really reflect a hacker mastermind.

The movie tried to portray how a life of a typical hacker would be with the usual suspects: a migrant who is rationally sleeping till a turning point in his family's life pops us which is generally related to finance. The usual suspects suddenly decides to awaken his sleeping cyborg and decides to be utilitarian just to end up in an existential circle. Also, it doesn't really reflect the mind of a hacker but rather a mind of someone who wants to get rich and regret later. Most of the hackers fight for a cause and they wouldn't back up. There are scenes in the movie that depict a hacker as being someone who rushes in his decisions and is not proactive about what would happen and does not assess the current situation on the spot in which the movie failed to give a close-to-reality snap on how a hacker react and assess a risk.