Antitrust
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Movie Reviews of Antitrust
Movie Review: The Charactor of the Content...
Summary: 4 Stars
The most important thing to remember is why this screenplay was brought to fruition in the movie theatre. The relevancy should be apparent. Often we have life imitating art. In this case the art is definitely imitating life in many ways.Careful observation of the phenomenon known as Open Source (http://www.opensource.org) will reveal the real life David vs. Goliath conflict which Hollywood so dearly loves. It's not difficult to figure out which former technology CEO that Tim Robbins is parodying. Investigation into current press releases reveals that this type of anti-competitive behavior still exists in our current day market place.
You'll enjoy the movie if you like technology-oriented story lines or are a Linux geek. While there are story-line fractures overall it is a fun watch. Keep in mind the overall theme is a paranoia that the media, the government and everything else can be bought off or controlled by certain Mega Companies.
We all know this couldn't happen in "real-life" ... could it?
Movie Review: A Thriller For A New Generation
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is a perfect thriller for our times. The plot is about a computer company, NURV, run by a Bill Gates-like CEO, Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), who is perfect for the part. He hires a young programmer named Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillipe) who is deemed a genius. Winston wants him to develop a program called Synapse, which reminds me of AT&T's MLife. But this dream job becomes a nightmare after Hoffman's best friend is killed, and the clues point to NURV. Now he plans to finish the program for the sole purpose of exposing Gary Winston. Along the way, he is aided by a sexy coworker, Lisa (Rachel Leigh Cook), and learns the truth about his girlfriend. This is a great movie that will keep you guessing. It shows that in the world of business, especially software, you must know who to trust, and know how to deal with your enemies. I give it four stars because it has a great story, and the actors are wonderful, however, some things are a little goofy, and I don't like one of the final twists.Movie Review: High-tech thriller you don't have to be a geek to enjoy
Summary: 4 Stars
Creative and interesting plot with many twists and surprises in terms of just who is good and who is part of the criminal conspiracy to steal programmer's code and to then kill any programmer who is ahead of the company N.U.R.V. in developing a system to link the world's communication devices through a series of linked satellites. Suspend disbelief in how sophisticated the survelliance of programmers at work and marvel at the plausible explanations to deny accountability and justify whatever "creative" means are required to be first with the technology. The home of the C.E.O. is set and has features actually in the home of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. A touch of humor is in citing Bill Gates technology and saying that his is "primitive". Fast-moving as you and the young and brilliant protagonist, Milo, find who can be trusted and who cannot be. It also presents the argument for open-source code and keeping information free for all to use. I thoroughly enjoyed it!Movie Review: Are We Really Being Watched All The Time?
Summary: 4 Stars
"Antitrust was a pretty good movie but I do wish it would have had more character depth. I believe that this movie could have been better if we could have gotten to know the characters better. First of, Ryan Phillippe: He has tried to steer clear of teen movies(which gave him his first big break " I Know What You Did Last Summer") with films like "54" and "Cruel Intentions". "Antitrust" shows a new possibility for Phillippe's acting abilities: thriller. For some reason this movie didn't come out in theaters so I was anxious to see it when it came out on video and I'm happy to say that I wasn't disappointed and while I will that it was nothing like I excpected it to be, but I mean that in a good way. You can look forward to mysterious performances from Claire Filoni(Meet Joe Black, Boys and Girls) and Rachael Leigh Cook(She's All That, Josie and the Pussycats).Movie Review: One of my favorites
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is on this list as one of my favorite "geek" movies. What I mean by that is, that it's about computers, coding and generally geeky stuff. However, this movie is likable by even non-geeks. My girlfriend watches this movie whenever I decide to pop it in and watch in. She likes it too... A good movie all around. Great acting, good geeky story plot and great actors/actresses.
I remember that I lost this DVD a couple of years ago and ended up buying a completely new copy because I still watch it even today.
Other movies like this or similar by nature (that provide elements of geekiness in them) that I like are:
Pirates of Silicon Valley (start of the computer geek)
Matrix (hey, hackers, computers and sci-fi!)
Revolution OS (Documentary)
Grandma's Boy (game geeks)
Hackers (come on, it's lame but still fun to watch)