


This is an entertaining film of the 80s it was way ahead of its time and it stills grips the spectator. At the end, a message : The only winning move is not to play. The system is called the War Operation Plan Response, or WOPR for short, developed by brilliant but now deceased scientist Stephen Falken (John Wood), who programmed the system to learn continually through game simulations. As the United State's Department of Homeland Security is led to believe an American teen hacker playing a terrorist-attack simulator game online is a real terrorist out to destroy the U.S. A rogue young man named David (Matthew Broderick) along with his best friend Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) hack into their high school's computer to change his grade and later on, find a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
