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List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 12 January, 2001 DVD Release : 15 May, 2001 |
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Antitrust description The 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | High-tech thriller you don't have to be a geek to enjoy |
| 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! | |
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