Cyberjack (1995) on Netflix
In the near future, terrorist Nassim storms the Quantum computer company to seize a virus that could give him control of the world's networks. Janitor and ex-cop Nick James is inside.
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Plot summary
Nick James once worked as a policeman until anarchist terrorist Nassim killed his partner. Haunted by that memory and in debt, he now works as a janitor at Quantum, a computer science firm whose research team, Phillip Royce and his daughter Alex, is close to a breakthrough: a computer virus given organic components so it can act as an intelligent anti-hacking vaccine protecting the world's networks. Alex calls the program unstable and not ready for commercial release. The program escapes the company mainframe and invades the city's transport system, sending a SkyBus shuttle into a skyscraper. Nassim and an armed unit then take over Quantum's headquarters and demand that the virus be injected into him, so that he can control the world's computer infrastructures, and Nick, who escapes the assault, is Alex's only hope inside.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cyberjack (1995)
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- Star Michael Dudikoff received an injury during the shoot of Cyberjack when a stuntperson accidentally struck him in the eye.
- The visual effects were rendered on an Amiga 4000/040 with 146 megabytes of RAM; after a friend at Team 17 suggested connecting it to a Raptor Plus rendering engine, frame times fell from one hour to about four minutes.
- According to director Robert Lee, the trailer for Cyberjack so impressed Tom Berenger that the star booked him to direct Berenger's medieval fantasy Pendragon, a project that never materialized.
- The film's SkyBus shuttle was built from 15,000 polygons and 46 light sources, and integrating it into the miniature streets for the remote hijack scene took a month of processing.
- After finishing Cyberjack, the film's visual effects team continued to use the Amiga for its next project, the James Bond film GoldenEye.
