WarGames: The Dead Code, Review

I just finished watching WarGames: The Dead Code on netflix instant (thanks xbox360!) and thought I’d share a few remarks about the moive.

So here we are, many years after the first WarGames movie and a new computer system is in place. This computer find terrorists on the internet. How does it identify someone as a potential terrorist? Because they gamble on a poorly rendered, 3d, drop poison gas on civilians, video game, and win. So this tells us two things:  First, being good a video games makes you a terrorist. Second, Terrorist are funded by playing video games on the internet (how they got internet out in the dessert I don’t know.)

So whatever, the computer thinks Will Farmer is a terrorist and has his Family, his neighbors, his friends, and the school chess club arrested while they watch how Will reacts. Surprise, he freaks the fuck out.

We need a love interest, so he stairs at this chess girls rack and she invites him to Montreal. They have the whole flight from Philadelphia to Montreal to get to know each other, which is good because as soon as they get their, the police are after him. She helps him run all over the country to avoid capture.
Hold It.
She’s running from the police in a foreign country for a boy she just met, and she doesn’t even know why? It’s hard enough to get a girl you just met to go back to your place, let alone all over Montreal running from the police and taking rides from mysterious old men.

So the guy from the first move takes the happy couple to the computer Joshia from the first movie so they can stop the new computer from nuking Philadelphia. Wait what? How did they even know what was going on in Philadelphia from the boonies in Montreal? How do you get high speed internet access in the middle of the boonies? How the hell does a chess playing computer from the 80′s know how to hack into a super computer behind government firewalls in 2008?

The movie ends with Joshia being uploaded into the new super computer and playing so many games that she can’t keep up, So she calls off the attack!

Man, I’m so busy from all these games that I’ll just go over here and direct my unmanned aircraft back to the ground, I just can’t take the pressure of pushing the Fire button.

Oh and by the way, There’s no way for any other branch of the government to do anything like Shoot down the fucking plane!

The plot had, shall we say, a few problems. But overall it wasn’t terrible to watch if you don’t have anything better to do and you can see it for free.