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Antitrust (2001)

January. 12,2001
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6.1
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PG-13
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A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

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Artivels
2001/01/12

Undescribable Perfection

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Contentar
2001/01/13

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Tayloriona
2001/01/14

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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Guillelmina
2001/01/15

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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LeonLouisRicci
2001/01/16

A Movie made by Hacks and it Shows. Pretty-Boy Ryan Phillippe is Miscast as a Geek Computer Genius and is Blown Off the Screen anytime He Shares a Scene with Tim Robbins, a Grotesquely Exaggerated "Bill Gates" Type.Forced Melodramatics and a TV Tone, this Film Flopped, not because it didn't Ask some Timely Questions, but because it is just a Bad Movie. Not an Awful Movie but in Total, Pretty Bad.Nothing seems Believable, everything is Overdone, the Acting is Atrocious (except Robbins), the Writing is Bland and Boring, and most of the Action and Suspense takes place on a Computer Screen or a Keyboard, and a Half-Second after the Movie was Released it was Technologically Dated.Glaring Corporated Product Placement is Hypocritical Hubris and works Against the Anti-Corporate Message, and On and On. Bordering on Silly, Nothing much Resonates in the Heavy Scenario and the Ending is Predictable Fluff. Not as Bad as "The Net" (1995) as these things go. But Barely Achieves Average or Worth a Watch Status. Recommended but only as a Snapshot for what passed for Hollywood's Lack of Insight on the Subject and some "Real Life" Headline Grabbing from the Early 2000's.

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Python Hyena
2001/01/17

Antitrust (2001): Dir: Peter Howitt / Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Tim Robbins, Claire Forlani, Rachael Leigh Cook, Yee Jee Tso: Phony contraption where Ryan Plillippe and a friend receive opportunity to work at a high profile firm. The head of the firm is a Bill Gates type who delivers long speeches about future and technology. Phillippe investigates when his friend back home is beaten to death. He notices aggressive behaviour from his boss, and he suspects that his girlfriend may not be who she claimed to be. Only the woman at the firm he seems able to trust. While Phillippe solves the plot with wit and brains, it doesn't take away from the fact that he makes too many narrow escapes. Robbins is embarrassing as the villain who seems to be constantly sneaking up on Phillippe. Claire Forlani and Rachael Leigh Cook play two women who are more mysterious than interesting. Forlani is his suspicious girlfriend, and Cook is his suspicious co-worker. Either way neither one is suspicious regarding how pathetic this film is. Yee Jee Tso plays the murdered friend although that could have been his way out of the film. Directed by Peter Howitt who previously made Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow in duo roles. The production is okay with a highlighted Lego sequence. One could say that this film is about people in high places but the delivery and suspense is so juvenile that it fails to be nothing more than something out of the recycle bin. Score: 3 / 10

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bryanlockwood
2001/01/18

A lot of people are bagging on the movie as having been technically inaccurate in some way. Truth is, they got more things right than they got wrong.It's not a bad movie, really. It's also not really a blockbuster - not enough special effects, and the drama aspects ... well, they don't really *pop*. Still, it's a solid middle-of-the-pack effort.Yes there are good looking geeks, and yes there are geeks with hot girlfriends (and sometimes, the geek *is* the hot girlfriend!). Enough with the stereotypes already, guys. The plot holes are really the girlfriend's sudden change of heart, and the other girl's equally sudden role reversal. Also, the Tim Robbins 'surprise me' approach wouldn't work too well in real life; his goons would get caught too often. But here's the big spoiler: the idea that a couple of guys in a back room, peering over the shoulders of garage hackers everywhere, would be able to differentiate brilliant source code from typical spaghetti code is ... well, it's the biggest error in the movie, and after reading five pages of comments I am surprised no one else spotted this. Source code is mind-numbingly dull to read, even when the reader is another coder. The primary way to tell what works is to compile and run it, and without an army of code-savvy typists reading inputting that code as they read it from video feeds, there just wouldn't be any way to tell the good stuff from the bad.Secondly, and I just realized this one, fiber-optic video feeds from every hacker garage on the planet would require a pretty large team of operatives to set up and maintain. So their payroll alone generates a paper trail a mile wide; not to mention the trail generated by all the broadband subscriptions that would be required.Still, if you are willing to suspend disbelief for an hour and a half, this isn't a bad movie. The Microsoft hatred is slathered on a bit thick, but that's true in most geek hangouts already, so there's nothing new there. The girls are hot, the dialog isn't bad, the general plot is alright. Milo's trick at the end is a good one. The geekery isn't overwhelming to a non-geek, and isn't wrong enough to set off (many) alarm bells for real geeks.I'd watch it again.

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wwoodyard
2001/01/19

What a shame. What starts out as an exciting, suspenseful nerd-fest with basic but clever twists and turns at every opportunity crashes and burns in the last fifteen minutes.The acting is consummate, the direction relatively masterful, the script competent even though the dialogue is not always top notch. So what happened.It was almost like everyone originally involved in the making of this film suddenly up and left and an incompetent propaganda oriented crew took over in order to MAKE THEIR MESSAGE MORE CLEAR.What a shame to see so much good work go down the toilet so quickly. But it's still worth watching for the bulk of the film and then I suggest you just have a laugh at the stupid stupid ending. Thus the five stars out of ten.I know, maybe they thought the film's main shoot was over, the wrap party was already in full swing, someone had brought a bong and everyone was high as a kite when suddenly someone remembered *Oh my God! We've still got the ending to shoot!*And there we have it... This movie!

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