Directed by Stuart Gillard
Staring Matt Lanter, Amanda Walsh & Nicholas Wright
Rating PG
Score 5/6

Hacker Will Farmer engages a government supper-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. However, Will fails to realise that Ripley was created to appeal to potential terrorists.

When watching this flick all of you would be right in assuming that this is a carbon copy of the 1983 film War Games starring Matthew Broderick.
In most regards this would be considered one of the most heinous acts of film crime that could ever be committed by anybody. However, this act of transgression can be forgiven as Director Stuart Gillard has taken this storyline and dragged it from the reds under the bed cold war era into the era of fear and paranoia that seems to grip the naughties and the war on terrorism.
When comparing both of these movies it’s interesting to think how the perceived images of a hacker or a computer nerd have changed over twenty five years from the pasty faced teen into almost anything from that very same pasty faced teen in need of sunlight to the boy playing sport in the park with his friends, considering that computing has become a skill that is necessary for everyday life.