Review of WarGames (1983) by Noel Murray for The A.V. Club — 22 May 2008
Badham and company elide a lot of technical details of hacking, but the basics of the nascent computer culture still feel spot-on, right down to the body type and personalities of Eddie Deezen and Maury Chaykin, who play two of Broderick's techno-literate confederates (and work in Seattle, no less).
More important is how WarGames plays up the contrast between teenagers—rebellious on the surface but conformist by nature—with a cynical adult world that has become convinced that nuclear annihilation might not be so bad.
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This review of WarGames (1983) was written by Noel Murray and published by The A.V. Club on 22 May 2008.
WarGames has generally received very positive reviews.
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