| Antitrust | | Cast : | Ryan Phillippe, Tim Robbins | | Director : | Peter Howitt (II) | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 12, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | November 02, 2004 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 25, 2005 | | Summary | THE CONQUERING NERD | Content
 | Even though I'm not a fan of Ryan Phillipe's (a vastly overrated actor), it's not his fault that the movie doesn't soar to great heights. ANTITRUST is competently made and it held my interest throughout. There are so many false pretenses and twisty moments, though, that it tends to deflate the movie's underlying plot. Tim Robbins seems to be having a wonderful time in his Bill Gates-like portrayal, it's hard to tell if he's taking his role dead serious, or if he just wants to make the most of the script's mechanisms. Phillipe does okay in his role, but he lacks the maturity of someone like Matt Damon or Matt Davis to be effective in his role. Claire Forlani and Racheal Leigh Cook are basically wasted. ANTITRUST isn't an awful movie by any means; it's handsomely done and holds your interest; could have been better with a stronger, more convincing male lead, though. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 15, 2005 | | Summary | Rent the real-deal instead | Content
| The only reason to watch this film is to see Tim Robbins as a dead-ringer for Bill Gates. It sure as heck isn't to see Ryan Philippe. I watched one of the featurettes and laughed because of how proud the filmmakers were that they bothered to use real code in the split-second scenes where you see the screen as the characters type furiously. Who cares?
If you want to see what the war to find the next great techno-innovation was really like, watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley. This docu-drama concerns the very real industrial espionage on all sides that went into creating the first PCs. Bill Gates does the most and of course comes out on top. It's everything "Anti-trust" wishes to be, and without the preposterous murders.
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| Rating | | | Date | November 29, 2004 | | Summary | I like it! | Content
| Okay it's not Oscar material but it's a nice thriller to watch on a Saturday afternoon. Computer freaks and even non freaks will like it. It's not over your head material and the basic story is greed. In this case someone is killing people to get to the top of the heap. Of course if the killer can get you to work for him then you have a chance of staying alive. Gary Winston (Tim Robbins) is trying to build a global network but his genius comes at a high price.
Like I said, it's not Oscar material. This film may take itself too seriously at times but it's okay. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2004 | | Summary | Good hacking scenes, everything else bad | Content
| The one good thing about this movie is that this is the first movie I've ever seen that uses _real_ computer commands for hacking. If you watch the commands that the hero uses to hack into the computer, you will find that they are, in fact, real commands that work the way shown.
Other than that, the movie was pretty lame. It could have been a good movie, but it was just a bit unbelieveable and not well thought through. The open-source/closed-source differentiation was bad. As an open-source/free software advocate, I thought that the portrayal of the reasons for open-source and the philosophy were very poorly portrayed.
I enjoyed seeing it for the hacking scenes, and to get to see a few of my favorite programmers on film in cameo shots. It's also somewhat historic, as being the first mainstream film about monopoly power and open-source, even though it treated both subjects poorly (a real movie about the problems of monopolies would be great, but this wasn't it). So, watch it for those reasons, because there isn't much else there. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2004 | | Summary | Made me think... | Content
| I've watched movies like Hackers(dont bother), Takedown(decent), Swordfish(omg no), but this one is my favorite. Its about a corporation that has a global monopoly (much like microsoft). They observe programmers that have potential and kill them if needbe. Well, one of the newly hired programmers finds this out. A very good movie, I recommend you watch it. |
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