Nadine Salakov
Antitrust is one of those movies that slipped through the cracks, most people have probably never even heard of this film. If you like hi-tech thrillers check this movie out, it's worth it!The performances are convincing, Director Peter Howitt did a great job, the film has okay scenery and the plot is interesting.There is one brutal scene which is difficult to watch (the scene where one of the computer nerds gets beaten to death).The film overall is watchable and forces you to keep watching if you want to know what is going on, Antitrust isn't one of those movies where you can leave the room for 15 minutes, return and still follow it.A must-watch.
douche-55941
I don't like this movie because it highlights ideas that threaten to put big companies and advertisers out of business.Advertisers and companies shouldn't be held to the same ethical standards as everyone else. We make more money than average citizens and should have a measure of immunity from being accused of stuff like this. Like Google's CEO alluded to, people should get over the fact that they're being exploited. We make too much money to simply throw in the towel now. Corporations and their henchmen have to make money somehow, even if it means crossing some boundary lines. The common people should accept their chains of bondage and stop expecting so much all the time.
dmusucksdonkey
To be honest when I stuck this on one evening, it was to just put something on in the background. I actually found myself keeping track of what was going on, but not through paying much attention to the storyline. It was by guessing what was happening as it tends to follow pretty much the same storyline as The Firm (The John Grisham one, not the cockney git one). Basically, computer dude gets his dream job and is getting along great guns with Bill Gates until he finds out he's evil so he goes about trying to expose his crimes and bring him down.It's horribly predictable all throughout. I was cooking during the first twenty minutes, but my mate had been watching it from the start. I did not miss out on anything in the storyline. I kind of assumed who everyone was and what had already happened. Very obvious that Ryan Phillipe's mate is going to get killed when he tells him it's good to hear from him again, even though he is working for their enemy.The best part of the film was noticing that the three main henchmen who carry out the murders and stuff on behalf of the Bill Gates type character (Tim Robbins) are called Schmeichel, Sheringham and Solskjaer. Seriously, that was the most entertaining part.I would say, as usual, that watch it with a pinch of salt and a few beers and it'll be a good laugh, but it's not. This is a film trying to be good and for that reason I did not enjoy it. If it at least starting taking the mick out of itself, I would've had a good laugh.The two birds are pretty hot, but I cant help but feel disappointed that he doesn't get off with either of them. The quality of this film could have been vastly improved if there were some breasts on display. A major disappointment.I was astonished to see that the average rating for this piece of work was 6/10. I am currently in the middle of watching the Tourist whilst watching this and it only got 5.9/10, and it has Timothy Dalton in it! (Something that immediately warrants a 10/10 rating in my book - he certainly is tenacious)
johnslegers
I think the target audience for this film is too small. Hardcore programmers will dislike this film because the code they used was pretty much bullc*** code and because the way this company doesn't really resemble the atmosphere in a real IT company (I know from experience). Also, the entire plot was way too far-fetched to really come off as realistic at any time.People not into IT are not likely to enjoy this film either, since there's too much techno-babble for anyone not familiar with IT to get some insight in what's going on half of the time. When they speak of an IP address, an interface, an OS or decompressing the audience is expected to understand all of these terms to have an idea of what's happening.So what's left as a possible target audience is a group of geeky kids and teenagers who're into computers enough to understand all the techno-babble but who are too naive and inexperienced to have any idea what working in an IT company feels like.... Not a good move, I'd say.Overall the movie does make a decent effort to keep some tension alive, but the far-fetched plot, the silly situation, the more than average amount of techno-babble and the bullc*** code seriously limit the possible target audience for this film.
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