WarGames: The Dead Code
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Movie Reviews of WarGames: The Dead Code
Movie Review: I'm suprised...
Summary: 4 Stars
This was actually a pretty good movie. Not sure why it didn't get advertised more. If you loved the original, then you'll like this one as well.Movie Review: I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it would help this movie!!
Summary: 3 Stars
WAR GAMES: THE DEAD CODE (2008) appeared on the 25th anniversary of the original WAR GAMES (1983). I do not know why this is touted as a "sequel", because it is clearly a remake. A not very good remake, but at least it introduces the modern youth to a taste of what the original film meant to those of us old enough to know better in 1983.
The message is plain: if we leave all responsibility in the hands of technology, we will have no world left to us. Then again, there should have been more of an anti-warmongering message here. The original film presented the message loud and clear.
Incidentally, that 1983 film was panned by the critics. It has a blurry, sloppy history I will not explain here...but I can tell you it was simultaneously fun, humorous, and disappointing in its day.
Same with this film, exactly the same. The steaming hunk known as Matt Lanter (yet another victim of hapless guesses as to whether or not he's gay) plays Will Farmer, 2008's version of Broderick's David character. He is annoying, intelligent, bored and his beauty is godlike. Naturally, this means he will automatically head into trouble on the internet.
There he finds RIPLEY (yes, a sort of tribute to Sigourney Weaver and ALIEN), a supercomputer program run by the DHS to find terrorists on the internet, and tempt them into a game which will ultimately get them caught. It works brilliantly until the annoying Will begins playing. Later, the government will be shocked to know he got his PC prowess from his late father, and his planetary knowledge of warfare from video games.
Big shock. The government designs video games to teach warfare, and have been doing it since video games first appeared. But then, this is a Canadian production, and that is perhaps its only saving grace. Canadians do what they do very well, and this film wasn't all bad. The acting is particularly good, though it felt wooden at certain moments. Its weakest point, in fact, was in trying to be too 'American'.
A swaggering stud like Will, who goes on the lam, tries to defeat RIPLEY, grabs himself a girlfriend on the way (Amanda Walsh), meets Prof. Stephen Falken (an impressive Gary Reineke) and gets the old W.O.P.R. (a/k/a "Joshua") in with the bargain...well, how can you beat a straight white boy like that??
The rather predictable and at times confusing film goes in for the American-style music video genre, which annoys me to no end no matter what the film is about...and the sagging scenes are precisely due to that nasty habit of doing a music video instead of good cinema. Directors, be warned. If you cannot learn from this galactically stupid impasse, and keep repeating it, you'll find the box office take will surpass the dismal economy.
All in all, I'd say this was an interesting one-time watch, for 'old time's sake' I guess, and it isn't a bad update. Cheap and sloppy, yes, too geared toward teens, yes, missing the big picture, also a big yes. But it is fun enough, it can be followed by those in the know, and it is fun anyway even if you didn't see the original.
It made me want to see the original again--it's a favorite in our family.
Movie Review: Well it was fun
Summary: 3 Stars
I wasn't sure what to expect whern the DVD arrived but I was pleasantly surprised. The movie was quite good fun and wasn't boring. It was good. I did notice by the end of the movie that it share a little similarity with the movie Eagle Eye I did not let that get in the way of my enjoyment of the film. I think this film help up well on its own merits.
For one I wasn't bored. I was kept interested throughout the whole movie watching what Ripley would do next. The opening scene for instance with the terrorists was quite good. That scene alone got my attention. The rest of the movie then followed.
it was nice to see things from the original Wargames in this like the WOPR computer and Dr. Falken so that kept my interest too.
Overall 3/5 and a definite repeat viewing or two later on.
Movie Review: Pretty good...
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a pretty solid movie both well written and entertaining.
In other words i did not fall asleep watching it and pressed paused while
i made a snack.....pressed paused cause i did'nt want to miss anything
important to the story line...in which case points to a good movie.
There was only one scene which did'nt impress me much...kinda looked
fake....its the running away scene by foot.....They ran and ran and never
ran out of breath...and the cars following them looked too slow or something....
I do recommend this movie...and probably worth keeping for future views.
Movie Review: Go ahead, watch it one time.
Summary: 3 Stars
It's better than watching a re-run or a made-for-TV movie, especially if you like the science-techno-computer-hacker-surveillance type of action movie.
Just keep in mind that there's a reason it went straight to DVD.