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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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.

Gary Winston (Tim Robbins) is the mercurial CEO of tech giant NURV. He is introducing new program called Synapse promising to revolutionize the communication world. Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) is working on his own program with friend Teddy Chin. Winston invites them to see him. Teddy refuses to go and argues for open source against Winston. Lyle Barton (Richard Roundtree) from Department of Justice tries to hire Milo and asks him to keep a lookout at NURV. Winston hires Milo to fix a big problem with the pending launch. Milo brings his girlfriend Alice Poulson (Claire Forlani) along to Portland. Redmond Schmeichel (Tyler Labine) and Lisa Calighan (Rachael Leigh Cook) are some of his new fellow programmers. New advancements magically appear from Winston without explanations. Somebody kills Teddy Chin and trashes his work.The obvious comparison to Winston is Bill Gates. It's hitting so close that it's rather distracting. Ryan Phillippe is a weak lead actor. The plot lacks believability. The movie lacks tension. I would put that down to director Peter Howitt. I can't really pinpoint the exact problem or maybe problems. There are a few too many twists and turns. The turn on Alice is wrong but what's worst is that the twists keep coming. It's always more difficult to be cinematic with computer programming and this doesn't succeed. There are a few little problems that add up to a not-so-stellar thriller.

I saw this movie because it featured in some most-watchable movies list, and having seen it, I don't trust the list so much. It is one of your run-of-the-mill thriller belonging to the days when computer geeks were still a revered, and rare, species. Ryan Phillippe plays Milo Hoffman, a stereotypical computer geek, who originally wants to make a software, open-source and all, with his best buddy Teddy Chin (Yee Jee Tso), both of them being among "the top 20 programmers in the world" (how convenient!). But then comes Bill Gates' doppelganger Ryan Winston, offering them the benefits and perks of coming to work in N.U.R.V., the monopolistic giant of the computers industry (wink wink Microsoft!). Milo takes it, Teddy doesn't. Teddy dies. Between the name of the movie and the sequencing of the scenes, you can see the 'twist' coming from a mile away. But what really does this movie in is its portrayal of computer geeks, playing on every stereotype you can think of; they live and work in their garages (why they were doing it while the house was clearly theirs, beats me), they have no social life ("you have a girlfriend? Thats rare around here"), coding and generating algorithms being basically two guys prancing around the computer, hitting the keys with hand movements that would put the Jedi to shame, and yes, one of them HAS to be Asian. This apart from the obvious hate that the writers had for Microsoft; there is no way you can look at Ryan Winston and not be reminded of Bill Gates, and of course the computer that finally beats the system HAD to be a Macintosh. My advice, stay the hell away from this one and random internet lists.

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.