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As for RIPLEY activating his mobile phone? I think not, it wasn't connected to the pc and the message wouldn't play unless he actually answered the phone so there's more bad "hacking" science there too. Why a counter terrorism agency would see this as a viable target is extremely questionable. Exactly why RIPLEY shut Will's machine down isn't explained (he's only playing an online game?) & also why it felt the need to have to shut down all the electricity in the entire block he lived in as well. The trace the RIPLEY office are running is NOT on Will but on Massude's pc so all the evidence they were gathering was useless against Will.
#Two hour wargames win or go home review movie#
Wills taking money from his neighbours bank account (Mr Massude) isn't a hack (he helped him set up the account), we then get a nod back to the original movie where they decide against playing Global Thermonuclear War & they play The Dead Code. We also meet Wills mom who works for a chemical company. We are introduced to "hacker" Will Farmer (he's good at chemistry & electronics which doesn't make him a computer hacker) & his love interest, Annie) & Will's 1st attempt at hacking is not only a complete failure his IP address is also logged and Annie guessed who it was.
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We get to see the computer that has masterminded this operation, called R.I.P.L.E.Y. They could be but I don't think it's ever been tried for real. And that's exactly where the movie jumps the shark.
It's set in the modern day as we see a base in Afghanistan get destroyed by a UAV right at the start. This is loosely based on the ideas of the original 80's hit. But, we really have to ask ourselves: are we making computers too intelligent where one day, in time, they will rule us? Hmmm. Go back to the 1980s and watch the original War Games movie. In other words we are now experiencing a made-for-TV type movie, and it's Oh Hum Time. So the movie dazzles us with fantastic CGI on computer screens, and once Joshua, the forerunner to Ripley, is found operational, we are left with watching computer against computer and the humans are cringing, hoping, praying .sort of, oh-oh-ing, OMG-ing, and more cringing hoping things will go their way. Well, the electronic industry has so much more to work with these days. Oh, oh! This version of War Games has a much faster pace and more aggressiveness than the War Games movie in the early 1980s. Ripley has the power to call up missile strikes. The next door neighbor whose computer Will was fixing, has relatives in the mid-east who thru their bank send money to the neighbor's bank, and Ripley sees a terrorist connection. Will Farmer (Lanter) plays a computer game that simulates a terrorist attack, and Ripley, the super government computer, designed to profile potential terrorists, tracks him because Will borrowed (by hacking) some money from his next door neighbor's bank account to pay for a class trip to play chess in Philadelphia.
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Brand synergy you say? Back in 2008, this was announced as just one in a series of direct-to-DVD sequels, which also included two new Stargate films, a remake of Audrey Rose, Cutting Edge 3 (also directed by Gillard), a sequel to the 2002 movie Dark Blue, a spin-off called Legally Blondes and Species: The Awakening.
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It also has some brand synergy, as the main character is playing Stargate Worlds, a game that would never be released. Where we only had nukes back in 1983, this time there are drones and the fully connected World Wide Web. This film has RIPLEY instead of WOPR, but that old computer also shows up. The more cynical of us would say, "That was just to keep the copyright." I don't know who else has been trying to make WarGames that it would need a copyright. For some reason, MGM wanted a sequel to WarGames a quarter of a century later and he was the man to make it. Stuart Gillard directed the third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, the remake of The Initiation of Sarah and episodes of the classic and reboot of Charmed.