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Antitrust

2001, Movie, PG-13, 119 mins

Antitrust: Review

ANTITRUST
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If the pitch for this paranoid thriller wasn't THE CONVERSATION meets HACKERS, it should have been. Hotshot programmer Milo (Ryan Philippe) plans to launch a start-up with his college pals, until he gets an offer from software corporation NURV, owned by über-geek Gary Winston (Tim Robbins). NURV is developing a digital convergence program, Synapse, that will wire the world together; seduced by Winston's personal attention, Milo signs up. This alienates Milo's best friend, Teddy (Yee Jee Tso), who truly believes that information wants to be free and robber barons like Winston are hijacking the Internet. Milo and girlfriend Alice (Claire Forlani) nevertheless settle comfortably into their new life of pricey perks, until Milo begins to suspect there's something sinister afoot at NURV. Winston keeps handing him pieces of brilliant code, but won't reveal the programmer's name. Then Teddy is murdered, ostensibly by racist skinheads, so Milo starts poking around and, with a few well-placed keystrokes, uncovers a conspiracy. Ironically, the filmmakers seem to think the audience for this movie about super-smart people is super-dumb. How else to explain flashbacks to things that just happened, except that they think viewers won't remember the sinister implications without prompting? And it's unfortunate that when our heroes decide to expose NURV's secrets, they package the information like political art by Barbara Kruger, which would probably lead the average image-saturated consumer to dismiss it as flashy cyber-pranking. Frankly, the unusually elaborate disclaimer buried in the credits is more interesting than most of the film. It reads in part, "there are a number of... entities and persons with names which may be the same as or similar to those used in this motion picture. However, this motion picture is entirely fictional and (except for minor incidental resemblances) is not intended to depict or refer to any other existing entities or persons and any such references are purely incidental." Who's afraid of big, bad Bill Gates? leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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