AntiTrust (2001)

The 'Net in the Northwest
"Antitrust" is a fun little B movie mainly set in beautiful Portland,Oregon. Ryan Philippe stars as geeky boy genius,Milo, from Stanford. He gets an offer he can't refuse from techno mogul,Gary Winston (Tim Robbins) Claire Forlani stars as his concerned,and slightly creepy girlfriend Alison.

When Milo goes to Portland,he meets the equally geeky Lisa (Rachael Leigh Cook),who seems to take more than a casual interest in him because he's now Gary's protege. Gary, in the meantime,is crafting Synapse,his Uber-Worldwide Web. He's the evil genius as a compulsive potato chip eater. Robbins is having a rolicking time as the villain. When Milo's friends are mysteriously killed,he endangers himself to find out the truth. And sesame seeds are involved. Milo bravely hacks into the system,facing dangerous security guards along with a love scene and sweet-and-sour sauce. Bring your chopsticks!

"Antitrust" ends preachy and heavy-handedly,but it's a gloriously wild ride. Who can Milo trust? Is it Alison or Lisa? Where he can go? The worldwide web turns out to be a complex web. Philippe is a convincingly cute hacker,who opens the movie triumphantly shouting,"We're geeks!" So,give a shout-out to geeks and enjoy this movie!

Nice little enjoyable film
AntiTrust is a film that all cyber geeks can relate to. The film stared a then up and coming Ryan Phillpee as Milo a computer hacker who goes to work for a company that isn't what it seems. The film is fast paced and one of my favorite actors Tim Robbins makes a great villian.

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!