Review – Wargames 2: The Dead Code

I’m actually a little surprised it took this long to come up with a sequel to the late-Cold-War classic. Back in the Reagan 80s, it seemed perfectly plausible that a computer problem could spark a nuclear war. And of course now we’ve given up so much of our lives to electronic control and monitoring that being nuked would in some ways be a birthday present compared to more modern alternatives. This environment of push-button warfare and the surveillance state is exploited to good use by this picture. Of course once again teenagers save the planet, which has the same Galactic-Empire-defeated-by-Ewoks quality that it did the first time around. And if you haven’t seen the original, you’re likely to miss some of the plot points in the sequel. Otherwise it’s an entertaining little techno-thriller. Mildly amusing