Matthew Broderick,
Dabney Coleman,
John Wood,
Ally Sheedy,
Barry Corbin
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Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps i... read more
Directed by: John Badham
Release Date: June 3, 1983
Keywords:
teen,
80's,
cold war,
matthew broderick,
ally sheedy,
nuclear war,
World War ,
Matthew Broderick ,
Ally Sheedy ,
Global Thermonuclear War
DVD Release Date: April 28, 1998
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Flixster Reviews (2,153)
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October 16, 2011Overrated teen sci-fi flick starring Matthew Broderick is good, but not enough. It is like watching Ferris Bueller play tech-y rather than hooky, and it tries to add some humor, but it usually fails.
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April 12, 2011A really exciting and funny movie. Was it trying to be to be funny, who knows, but it was. The pure stupidity of these characters was funny to me. The plot was actually good, and really interesting. I think a lot of people check it out.
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January 14, 2011Another great technology gone awry themed film. This stars a young Broderick, and he's really cute. This is a great movie, I love it.
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December 11, 2009This Movie reminded me of Brain Storm so I quit watching after about 20 minutes.
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November 25, 2009Computer whizzkid Matthew Broderick hacks into a computer and starts playing a game called Thermonuclear War, only to discover that the game's for real. An invigoratingly entertaining and nail-biting thriller, with plenty of laughs, a little romance and just the teeniest bit of p... read more
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November 5, 2009fb619846742An obviously dated, yet still very cliched and forgettable tech thriller with a "bleh" performance from the usually solid Matthew Broderick. The dialogue doesn't help, but neither does the "all too typical" set-up, and the ending is some kind of terrible. Although I will admit th... read more
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September 30, 2009It?s ok, I didn't see it when I was a kid so I hold no nostalgic feelings for it. Must have been one of the first films about hacking though so points for originality awarded. Watched it mainly because the film game on pub quiz machines always asks a question about it!
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September 6, 2008A pretty good 80's action film as a kid hacks into the military defense computer and almost starts a war.
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August 29, 2008Wargames is one of my favorite movies out of the 80's I know that Joshua (the computer) is outdated by today's standards and David (Matthew Brodrick) never would have broken into NORAD but it's still one of the best hacker movies ever made and a great cold war thriller. Now I wa... read more
Critic Reviews
March 14, 2008
Michael Booth, Denver Post
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
As a premise for a thriller, this is a masterstroke. Full Review
August 30, 2004
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Like a video game once played, tends to disappear from one's memory bank as soon as it's finished. Full Review
August 8, 2011
Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
As a Cold War message movie and cinematic descendent of Fail-Safe, WarGames examines the inherent danger in favoring technology's cool logic and situational calculations. Full Review
May 11, 2011
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
In many ways, John Badham's intriguing tale was prophetic. Full Review
June 3, 2010
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
In this sage satire, warfare is boiled down to the inanities of tic-tac-toe Full Review
November 9, 2008
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
What works best about it works still: it's a paranoid film with an ambiguous ending. Full Review
February 10, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
One of the early films to warn about the dangers of hackers and the possibilities of computers controlling our lives. Full Review
July 19, 2007
Rob Humanick, Projection Booth
The film hasn't nearly the despair of Dr. Strangelove, but it retains the same underlining moral questions in its portrayal of these unimaginable dilemmas. Full Review
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