Antitrust
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Actor: Claire Forlani, Ryan PhillippeBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Antitrust
Movie Review: Murders In Geekdom
Summary: 5 Stars
Anti Trust is a highly enjoyable above average thriller that offers a lot and keeps its pace till the very end, unlike many thrillers these days that start with a lot of promise, only to lose it half way through.The story of a computer genuis geek Ryan Phillipe, joining a powerful and 'hip' computer firm ,founded by the equally geek, genuis but greedy Tim Robbins to develop a new state of the art, money making software. Greed and stiff competition lead to murder, and it is up to our young hero to unravel the mystery and expose the criminals. This is all filmed with a unrelenting pace that is guaranteed to keep you at the edge of your seat.
Ryan Phillipe is a good actor, a talent that should be invested more in by directors and producers, while Tim Robbins, is of course one of the best actors around, and he plays the computer boss to perfection.The angelic beauty Brit Claire Forlani, provides the female lead, and is quite good, as the deceptive love interest. Rachel Leigh Cook,although billed as a second female lead, has a supporting minor role that is very much underdeveloped in my opinion.
Director Peter Howitt is the Ron Howard of British cinema. A TV star in late 80s early 90s with mega hit Liverpudian sitcom Bread, he moved successfully to directing few years back to do the very well made romantic 'What If' fantasy Sliding Doors, up to his latest release, the Rowan Atkinson tailor made feature Johnny English.
He has a cameo as a homeless man in the film. Although this I find unnecessary pretentiousness from directors nowadays to appear in cameos, it does not take away anything from the film. When Hitchock appeared in his films, he did it in a very original way, as if each time taunting the viewer to 'spot him', while Scorsese regularily appears in his films in a tongue in cheek manner (from playing the psychotic murderer in Taxi Driver to appearing for few seconds as a family man dressed for dinner in Gangs of New York).Yet this practice has become a staple of many directors, other that Howitt, I recall Todd Phillips who also likes to make appearances in his films, as the toe sucking weirdo in Road Trip in a surreal and funny scene,and most recently in Old School.
Having said all that, Peter Howitt's cameo notwithstanding, he is a very talented director that I hope would make many good films in the future.
So back to Anti Trust, whether you write software between commercials or you still associate the word 'mouse' with cute little rodents, you will still enjoy this film immensely, a well made underrated thriller that is worth your dollars.
Summary of Antitrust
In a world where unseen enemies can watch your every move, who can you trust? Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That), Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black) and OscarÂ(r) winner* Tim Robbins star in this fast-paced, sizzling thriller that crackles with "genuine intrigue (Entertainment Today), "considerable suspense" and an "ingenious, stunningly cinematic payoff" (Los Angeles Times) you have to see to believe! Young, brilliant computer whiz Milo Hoffman (Phillippe) lands an exciting and lucrative job at the world's largest computer company, NURV. Handpicked by powerful C.E.O. Gary Winston (Robbins) to work on a project that will change the way the world communicates, Milo thinks he's found his dream job. But whenhis best friend, Teddy, is brutally murdered and clues lead to NURV's involvement, Milo becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth. With his cunning and beautiful girlfriend (Forlani) and a sexy programmer (Cook) to help him, Milo races to beat Teddy's murderers at their own cyber game. But as theyclose in on him, he realizes he may be too late to learn the most important code of all: Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer. And know which are which before you're killed. *2003: Supporting Actor, Mystic RiverThe term suspension of disbelief was invented for the idea that Ryan Phillippe could be a computer genius. As Milo, a slacker brainiac recruited by smilingly ominous software giant Gary Winston (Tim Robbins) to help build a global communications system, Phillippe still looks like a million bucks. He is also still doing the clenched, pouty grown-up voice that he always uses to show that he means business in this acting stuff (he's nothing if not earnest), and a pair of designer glasses completes the transformation. He's well matched in Antitrust by Claire Forlani, who, in turn, spends time pursing her lips and squinting her dewy eyes as Milo's troubled girlfriend, an artist who proves to be a liability when Milo discovers that Winston is killing off clever competitors like a dot-com führer. Robbins, looking like David Letterman, seems willing to either take his role dead seriously or goof around a bit, but director Peter Howitt doesn't know how to play any of it (the actor was better used as a grinning madman in another flawed paranoid thriller, the underseen Arlington Road). Without any underlying menace or enough satirical bite to keep it interesting, the whole thing slips by passively in a mindless matinee kind of way until the over-the-top finale. Production designer Catherine Hardwicke has had some big, glossy fun creating Winston's campus and ornate private kingdom, and there's the cheapest of kicks in seeing Robbins's Bill Gates taken down publicly, but the film is definitely junior league. --Steve Wiecking
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