n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

There was a time, believe it or not, when I thought that the basic premise of WARGAMES was too far beyond the pale: no way, thought I, would the corporate government of THIS company (the "united" $tate$ of ameriKa) allow itself to be made so Vulnerable that a KID could tap into its innermost Darkest Secrets. Well, in DJ Trump's ameriKa, it's not only POSSIBLE, but it may very well have already HAPPENED. The Divider-In-Chief (DIC, for short) has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to announce that his alleged ties to Russian cronies was just not so, that his hands were clean; that he hadn't engaged in treasonous activities prior to the recent so-called election; that he isn't (as Bill Maher put it) "Agent Orange" and Putin isn't the REAL president. (ONE thing's for certain: the Electoral College, which, we're told, was meant to PREVENT a Madman from becoming president, instead undermined the will of The People and gave us ol' DJ... whose Madness is open to debate. And, lest we Forget: the democraps HELPED put him in orifice. We've already had a ban on Muslims entering this company, mass deportations of wanna-be immigrants, a $75M aircraft lost in a military mission, and the murder of a dozen or so children in DJ's first authorized drone strike. There's Blood on a LOT of hands these days... The recent disruptions at republican Town Hall Meetings are clear signs of Things To Come. They can PROFITize all they want, it's well past Time for a Reality Check. Check out Keith Olbermann's THE RESISTANCE or Amy Goodman's DEMOCRACY NOW! for the latest Real World news.)

A Computer or Technology Centered Film is Inherently going to be Dated. There is No Stopping the Exponential Advancement and this Film has that Albatross Hanging and Holding one's Attention in almost every Frame.Ironically, Personal Computers have become Not Only an Inseparable Part of Everyday Life, but Considered Our "Personal" Friends and We Display much Affection and Attention to our Artificial, Inanimate Companions, and it is that Overwhelming Inclusion where this Movie Finds many Curious Admirers.After All, it's like Looking at Infants. so Young, so Cute, so Nostalgic. Add to that, the Global Thermonuclear "Wargames" Scenario and the 1980's Fresh Take on Intelligent Machines Humming Along and Without much Effort, making their way into the Everyday of Human Existence, You have a Movie with an Enormous Appeal.Nostalgia is a Powerful Thing. Computers are Powerful Things. the Computers in This Film are Dinosaurs, Today We Seem Like Smart Rodents Looking Out and Hiding in the Crevices by Comparison. This is a Much Remembered and Loved Movie. It Hit All the Right Keystrokes as it Became One of the Biggest Hits of the Era and Folks Today, Looking Back, Seem to Love it Even More. It Can Also be a Time Travel of Technology and Political Mindset.So Even Those That Were Not Alive or Consciously Aware of the Way Things Were in 1983 Find the Film Fascinating on Many Levels. It Transcends its Place in Time and Has Become a Minor Classic Dealing With Hackers, Computers, and Cold War Paranoia. The Two Lead Teens Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy are Superb and Lead the Viewer Through This Troubling Scenario and Charm just Enough to Take the Edge Off the World On the "Eve of Destruction" Story and Make it Entertaining Enough, and the Film Becomes Fantasy. A Fairy Tale of Sorts, but Like Most Fairy Tales, Scary Enough to be Cautionary.

Great Cold War drama.A high school kid, David (played by Matthew Broderick), accidentally hacks the powerful computer that runs global thermonuclear war simulations for the US military, and which controls the US's nuclear weapons arsenal. It starts as a game but ends up deadly serious...Intriguing, exciting movie with a few funny moments along the way. Though not anywhere near as biting as Dr Strangelove in its demonstration of how Cold War paranoia and the nuclear arms race can go awry, it is a fairly chilling indicator of what could happen.Solid work from Matthew Broderick in the lead role, in only his second movie. Ally Sheedy is wonderful as Jennifer. Supporting cast are fine too.

My wife and I are having a "we can't believe we never saw that movie" marathon. We're focusing mostly on fantasy/sci-fi movies from the 1980s (though "The Blues Brothers" is on the list, my own most egregious omission; "The Karate Kid" was my wife's), and "WarGames" was part of that project. I expected to have fun making fun of most of the movies on the list ("Krull" anyone?) but was surprised to find that "WarGames" is a damn fine movie. Well scripted, well directed, expertly shot by six- time Academy Award nominee William A. Fraker, and well acted by a young Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy, it's a film that came out at a time when America (and by extension Hollywood) was obsessed with the idea of nuclear carnage, and while some movies used that premise for devastating emotional drama -- "The Day After," "Testament," to a certain extent "Silkwood" -- "WarGames" uses it to build an exciting, crafty adventure/suspense film, more Steven Spielberg than docu-drama. Less responsible, perhaps, but a hell of a lot more fun.And could any 80s actor do smarmy corporate villain better than Dabney Coleman?Fraker was nominated for his cinematography, and the film scored two other Oscar noms, one for its original screenplay (written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes) and the other for its sound.Grade: A