Prime Video highlights a huge science fiction classic. An Oscar-nominated film of formidable effectiveness, even today.
The best soups are made in old pots. The adage has never been more true for Prime Video this month, which welcomes a ton of legendary classics like The Ride of the Seven Mercenaries or even the incredible The good, the bad and the ugly by Sergio Leone. The platform is full and today releases another great classic, this time science fiction.
A great classic that you absolutely must see on Prime Video
Video games are becoming more and more realistic, but none of them will have as dramatic an impact as in Wargaming. In this science fiction film starring Matthew Broderick (Godzilla, Inspector Gadget) then as a teenager, we follow the story of a young hacker who, after inadvertently infiltrating a military super computer, finds himself in control of a deadly game, war, the real one… The result is a race crazy to prevent the nuclear apocalypse.
A film which, at its time, echoed on many geopolitical levels, the Cold War, the Berlin Wall in particular, but the feature film also raised the question of the dangerousness of AI, in the same way as a certain Terminator Besides. Wargames is one of the most popular and memorable films about it. It addresses the potentially unstoppable threat posed by artificial intelligence capable of thinking faster than humans, taking into account nothing but simple data.
When anticipation becomes reality
This fear is not new and serves as the subject of a very large number of creations, the last Impossible mission for example or the game Ghostrunner 2 recently. And today, AI is taking an increasingly important place in our daily lives. A few years ago, we had fun giving funny orders to Alexa or Siri, but now AI is replacing humans on many tasks and is starting to be scary. Well, we’re still quite far from facing killer robots or crazy super computers, but even today, films like Wargames make you think and are more relevant than ever.