WarGames: The Dead Code
Release Date: 17th December 2008 -
Australia (Direct to Video)
Production Companies
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre: Thriller
Rating: M
Runtime: 96 minutes
Plot Summary
When Will Farmer hacks
into a restricted network
of online gaming known
only as R.I.P.L.E.Y. (Ripley),
he stumbles onto a national
defense system designed
to ferret out fledging
terrorist cells...and becomes
Ripley's next target! His
identity compromised,
his family and friends
jeopardised and his
hometown in the crosshairs
of an automated military
response, Will's only hope
to clear his name lies in
beating Ripley at her own
game. But when the game
escalates to the next level,
it becomes a race against
time to stop Ripley from
unleashing Armageddon!
Cast
Matt Lanter - Will Farmer
Amanda Walsh - Annie D'Mateo
Colm Feore - T. Kenneth Hassert/
Joshua (Voice)
Chuck Shamata - Bill Carter
Maxim Roy - Tina Rashie
Nicolas Wright - Dennis Nichols
Gary Reineke - Stephen Falken
Susan Glover - Gail Farmer
Trevor Hayes - Agent Aaron Scott
Vlasta Vrana - Ivan Prokosh
Ricky Mabe - Newman (DNI Tech)
Claudio Black - R.I.P.L.E.Y. (Voice)Crew
Director - Stuart Gillard
Based on Characters - Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
Story - Rob Kerchner
Story/Screenplay - Randall Badat
Executive Producers - Hudson Hickman and Sara Berrisford
Producer - Irene Litinsky
Production Designe - Guy Lalande
Director of Photography - Bruce Chun
Editor - Robin Russell
Music - John Van Tongeren
Review
I've always hated the idea that most classic movies like 'WarGames' have horrendous sequels that were lower-budgeted and released straight to DVD. 'THE DEAD CODE' was produced twenty-five years after the original movie but none of the actors want to return in this atrociously bad instalment. Neither Matthew Broderick nor Ally Sheedy will be making their cameo appearances in this unneeded cash-grab. It was a huge attempt into turning 'WarGames' into a continuing series with each movie being more thrilling and more complex to the classic original. The storyline was a perfect retread to the original 'WarGames', but would have had a spot of redemption if the sequel was nonexistent and had been used in the future remake.
Matt Lanter and Amanda Walsh are the main actors of the redundant sequel and neither of them showed any good acting skill and the mundane, second-rate direction could not save the film. Their two performances weren't exactly the best and more likely to come out as the worst in history.
'THE DEAD CODE' is best referred as a sequel that nobody wants to see and has to be booted out of the franchise completely. None of you cinema-goers will ever want to watch this one as 'THE DEAD CODE' is enough to drop your IQ points by thirty. So stay tuned for the next review, folks!
Star rating: (3/10) Disappointing
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