WarGames (1983)

Release date: 1983-06-03
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: John Badham
Production Co: United Artists, Sherwood Productions
Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction
Rating: 7.1/10
Length: 1h 54min

Storyline

A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?

Plot Keywords

hacker, cold war, artificial intelligence, video arcade, teenager, computer, game, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fictional war, intelligence, computer hacker, nuclear threat, seattle washington, telephone number, computer cracker, nuclear weapons, pretty girl, nuclear war, biology, paranoia

Short Review

Like a man drawn to the edge of a cliff by the lure of the abyss below, we're secretly obsessed by the apocalypse. Moralists may claim that WarGames is more exploitation than warning, but it's still an exciting, giddily entertaining movie.