WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)

Director
Stuart Gillard

Main cast
Matt Lanter; Amanda Walsh; Gary Reineke; Colm Feore; Chuck Shamata

Genres
Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

Description
Computer hacker Will Farmer (Lanter) engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.


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