2008 · sci-fi · drama · thriller
WarGames: The Dead Code
Directed by Stuart Gillard1h 36m2008
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
Our read: WarGames: The Dead Code (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded sci-fi · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
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- cold
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