Amazon.com video review:
Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew
Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's
defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in
the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the
international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet
Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen:
government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of
machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing
lights, etc. John Badham
(Saturday Night
Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Kids still like this
movie, though. The DVD
release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical trailer, Dolby
sound, director commentary, optional English, French and Spanish
subtitles. --Tom Keogh
