Featured Audience Ratings

• Dan S

  
  A thriller that starts out fun and likable but ultimately ends on a remarkably absurd note. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed parts of it and I've definitely seen worse, but the end of this kept the stupid coming, and coming, and coming. The bright spots? Ryan Phillippe is… More
  A thriller that starts out fun and likable but ultimately ends on a remarkably absurd note. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed parts of it and I've definitely seen worse, but the end of this kept the stupid coming, and coming, and coming. The bright spots? Ryan Phillippe is routinely excellent (he has the ultimate "BS face", also seen in "Breach") and the film doesn't get too pretentious because it's evident it's just a fun little movie. Too bad they overdo the fun and crank up the cheesiness to an unbearable degree at it's conclusion.

• Dean M

  
  This tale of a software writer who discovers the success of his Bill Gates-like boss and menor may be based more on treachery than talent, is unfortunately degenerates from topical drama to ludicrous thriller.

• Ginny  

  
  One of those movies I liked when I was still in college.

• Stuart B

  
  Ok-ish thriller which takes a not too subtle swipe at microsoft and bill gates

• danny d

  
  terrible movie

• Steven V

  
  <i>"This isn't a game! In the real world, when you kill people they die - for real! And in the real world you're fucked!"</i> - <i>Milo Hoffman</i><br> <br> This movie was made to convey a message. If criticised in terms of, say,… More
  <i>"This isn't a game! In the real world, when you kill people they die - for real! And in the real world you're fucked!"</i> - <i>Milo Hoffman</i><br> <br> This movie was made to convey a message. If criticised in terms of, say, similarity to "the Firm", or "yet another cyber thriller", then you really missed the point. The message is pretty blunt, and guaranteed to anger a certain large corporation. This corporation has been known to spend extraordinary resources on PR, so almost certainly some of the comments on this message board will be produced by that corporation and should be read in that light. While murder is a bit over the top, pretty well all the other crimes committed by the large corporation in this movie are things of which the real corporation has been seriously accused, been found to be planning, or in some cases, convicted; yet in every case managing to escape with fines or compensation payments much smaller than the profits they made from the crime. It's also obvious why the motif of murder was added: some of the technical details of why their actions are pure evil are difficult for a non-techie to understand, so to make the movie accessible to a wider audience, they added a more blatant crime. <b>Antitrust</b> is not a futuristic movie, it is present day; nothing in this movie is more than about 1 or 2 years in the future, at most, and most of it is happening now or happened several years ago. Technical realism: while some of the technology stuff is rubbish, the effort put into realism is dramatically good compared to information technology in any other movie I have ever seen. The algorithms they discuss improving are even algorithms the product would really require. Not only that, the product is frighteningly similar to the large corporation's actual current development path. This movie was about as unrealistic and irrelevant as <b>All the President's Men</b>.

• Deb S

  
  Milo: This isn't a game! In the real world, when you kill people they die - for real! And in the real world you're fucked! Gary Winston: It's just a matter of time before someone borrows your technology, improves it and makes a billion dollars on it. Ryan Phillipe… More
  Milo: This isn't a game! In the real world, when you kill people they die - for real! And in the real world you're fucked! Gary Winston: It's just a matter of time before someone borrows your technology, improves it and makes a billion dollars on it. Ryan Phillipe (Cruel Intentions) stars as a computer wizard Milo who catches the eye of Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), a kind of seedier version of Bill Gates, whose company is on the verge of achieving a quantum leap forward in the realm of global communications. Their `Synapse' satellite system, once operational, will make global communications through any medium a reality and Milo just so happens to be one of maybe twenty programmers in the world who can accomplish the task before the targeted date set by Winston to launch Synapse. But Milo is not so much of a nerd that he would fail to notice his new boss is even resorting to murder in order to keep his project up and running. Director Peter Howitt manages to create quite a bit of tension as Milo slowly realises that no-one can be trusted, and everything ties up nicely in a well paced and exciting ending. <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=2e1viq0" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/2e1viq0.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=idslf7" target="_blank"><img src="http://i55.tinypic.com/idslf7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=30w7ach" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/30w7ach.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=eiw12o" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.tinypic.com/eiw12o.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>

• Andrew F

  
  It was suprisingly good. It had me on the edge of my seat. It was pretty clever and is definatley underrated, but it felt really weird.

• Jason R

  
  Kind of an underrated film! I watched this in theaters when it first came out and just recently saw it again on cable and it is still really good.

• Leo L

  
  Interesting movie. Good story plot.

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