War Games 2: The Dead Code
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| German title | War Games 2: The Dead Code |
| Original title | Wargames: The Dead Code |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Stuart Gillard |
| script | Rob Kerchner |
| production | Irene Litinsky , Mike Elliott |
| music | John Van Tongeren |
| camera | Bruce Chun |
| cut | Robin Russell |
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War Games 2: The Dead Code is an American film directed by Stuart Gillard in 2008. The main roles were played by Matt Lanter and Amanda Walsh . With new characters, he is based on the story of the 1983 film WarGames - war games . The film was released in Germany on January 23, 2009.
action
To counter the growing threat of terrorism , a computer system called RIPLEY was introduced to track down potential candidates and destroy them. To this end, a number of computer games have been created with the lure that you would win money if you beat the computer. If someone advances into the higher levels, they seem to have a strong knowledge of biological and chemical weapons . Will's friend Dennis discovers this website and asks Will to play the game. Will plays against this computer and is classified as dangerous by RIPLEY.
Since RIPLEY is designed as a self-learning system, it can start tracking Will independently. As was already the case with WOPR (War Operation Plan Response System) in Part 1, incorrect assumptions are repeatedly made by the computer, which rates the level of danger for the student Will increasingly higher. Some officials on the government agency's decision-making staff have increasing doubts about the decisions made by the mainframe, but the system's artificial intelligence has enabled it to bypass authorization blocks that allow human decision-makers to approve.
Chased by CIA employees, Will and his girlfriend are tracked down by someone “ who nearly started World War III ” and finally driven into his car in front of the officers. Initially without a clear idea of what Professor Falken is up to, a car drive of several hours into a sparsely populated area takes place. The goal is someone who “ can still compete with RIPLEY ”. Once there, in an old hydropower plant , the bearer of hope seems at first to be a slightly drunk, Russian petty criminal - but he only accommodates the helper without knowing what kind of skills he is. It's Joshua (the secret name of the WOPR computer from Part 1). Dusty and not even able to play chess properly, the piece seems completely out of date. But Prof. Falken awakens Joshua's spirits with a floppy disk . This awakens to new, still competitive performance.
With the help of Joshua the RIPLEY system is attacked and a duel between the systems takes place. The new system seems to be clearly winning, thanks to the executive power that has now been acquired, it can even redirect an aircraft drone to a bomb attack on the waterworks. The waterworks and Joshua are destroyed, but Prof. Falken (who is already suffering from his incurable pancreatic cancer) had returned shortly before to issue another command on the keyboard for Joshua, and is obviously killed by the attack. As it turns out later, Prof. Falken was able to smuggle all of Joshua's software and consciousness into RIPLEY as a kind of virus . The new system recognizes this later, a tough duel begins between the routines of Joshua and RIPLEY
Will and his girlfriend have now been found by the officials and taken to the headquarters of the government organization. There it is becoming increasingly clear, however, that the overpowering system for fighting crime is more and more beyond human influence. The climax is when the system announces the decontamination of the city of Philadelphia ; the death of over 50% of the population is considered acceptable by the system.
When Joshua seems to gain the upper hand within modern hardware , also made possible with the help of an external DoS attack on the system by friends of Will, RIPLEY takes care of Joshua's routines within their system; As she wants to fight the virus, she redirects a Predator drone equipped with a nuclear warhead , with the target of attack herself. She makes this decision, although a mortality rate of almost 100% of the population in the city is to be assumed.
In order to adequately bring Joshua back into play, Will's friend suggests teaching Joshua the basic principles of robber chess and using this tactic against the computer giant.
In this showdown, RIPLEY versus Joshua, the latter can obviously seize control over the attack weapons, since winning according to the rules of robbers chess means losing the game round. With the last weapon, however, Joshua initially seems to make a different decision and keep it aimed at RIPLEY and himself. Joshua asks RIPLEY: “ Are we still playing? “(Original:“ Are we still playing? ”) And he answers like Joshua in the first part“ A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. “(Original:“ A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. ”) Thereupon Joshua breaks off the attack.
In response to Will's later question, “ Would you have fired the missile if Ripley hadn't stopped you? "Replies Joshua" Yes, humanity has played out ... That was a joke. "
Reviews
"A relatively lame version of the known story and lacks any surprise effect."
"The story is predictable."
Individual evidence
- ↑ outnow.ch
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Web links
- War Games 2: The Dead Code in the Internet Movie Database (English)