Antitrust

Antitrust (2001)

  • 24% of critics liked it
    (106 reviews)

  • 48% of users liked it
    (45,100 ratings)

Just how far should one man go to stay ahead of his competition? Milo Hoffmann (Ryan Phillippe) is a young and gifted computer software designer who with his close friend Teddy is about to launch a high-tech start-up firm based on Milo's inventive ideas in convergence, in which he's helping to… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By
Peter Howitt
Written By
Howard Franklin
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 12, 2001 Wide
On DVD
Dec 26, 2001
MGM/UA

Critic Reviews

  • Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Got a by-the-numbers plot? A premise that's intriguing but also has holes in it? Dialogue that needs punching up? Hire Tim Robbins. He can save just about anything.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    My, my, such a high-tech setting -- too bad it's marred by such a low-tech plot.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    There's not an original note in Howard Franklin's screenplay or Peter Howitt's direction.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    A witty but repetitious and predictable paranoid thriller.

  • Dennis Lim, Village Voice

    The flashy topicality amounts to little, and Peter Howitt's slavishly generic direction doesn't help.

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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

  • 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

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