The story centers around Seattle high school student David Lightman, who is not doing particularly well in school. There may be some flaws in the movie's logic now and again, not everything we see seems entirely plausible. While certain aspects of the story may seem less relevant today there is no denying that WarGames is an effective, entertaining thriller. Who, in 1983, even knew there was such a thing as a computer hacker? Ahead of its time this movie is. But then again this movie, made in 1983, is at its heart really about a computer hacker. Nowadays the threat comes not from one communist superpower but from.well, pretty much anywhere it seems. It's a 1980s storyline which doesn't play as well all these years later with the Soviet Union long having been consigned to the dustbin of history. There's the Cold War angle, the United States and the Soviet Union gearing up for the seemingly inevitable World War III and the nuclear holocaust that would go along with it. WarGames is a film which in some ways seems hopelessly dated and in other ways seems to have been way ahead of its time.
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