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| Ethan Embry | ... |
Kyle Baxter
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| Cassidy Rae | ... |
Jamie Saunders
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Nassira Nicola | ... |
Ali Baxter
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Chance Quinn | ... |
Zach Renzetti
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| Cindy Pickett | ... |
Melanie Baxter
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| John de Lancie | ... |
Russell Bennett
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| Paul Dooley | ... |
Jerry Briggs
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| Tim Griffin | ... |
Dwight
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Eugene Williams | ... |
Tiny
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| Jamie Marsh | ... |
Ace
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Eric Fleeks | ... |
Cop at Zach's
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| Ian Gregory | ... |
Cop on TV
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Mary Gordon Murray | ... |
Mrs. Renzetti
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Lisa Passero | ... |
Secretary
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| Jack Kenny | ... |
Technician
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A popular virtual-reality video game gets ported to real life, and Kyle, one of the best Evolver players in the US, gets the opportunity to try playing against a little robot version of the arcade game. However, Evolver is programmed to win at all costs, and the match between Kyle and Evolver gradually becomes a frantic struggle for survival. Written by Dave Smith <dave@stat.colostate.edu>
First I'd like to point that I don't consider this a sci-fi movie and therefore I won't judge it like sci-fi. This is more like a teen movie with a slight cyber twist. A distant reminder or titles like "War Games" (more sci-fi) and "Hackers" (more teen and harder to swallow for me as a IT professional). The plot is based on an idea similar to "War Games" - a machine that eventually turns bad, due to inappropriate/biased programming, but here we have also some teen movie elements like boys/girls locker room, teen relationships, etc. I want to point out the good cast of the movie. Cassidy Rae as Jamie Saunders was perfect. Also excellent and very convincing performance from the others. All in all a good and professionally made movie very entertaining and highly recommended if you like this kind of "cyber-teen" movies. I give it 10 out of 10.