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AntiTrust
MGM
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some violence and brief language
Starring
Ryan Phillippe,
Tim Robbins,
Rachael Leigh Cook,
and
Claire Forlani
A relentless suspense thriller that enters the hidden world where the rich and the brilliant collide, where a handful of bright, driven young men and women have the means to make or break the technology that will dominate the global economy. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Howard Franklin
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Howitt
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 15, 2001
Video: May 15, 2001
Theatrical: January 12, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
119 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Becomes a very conventional suspense film, replete with virtually every cliche of the genre, some used more than once.

63
USA Today
Andy Seiler
Robbins' performance as Winston is the best thing in the movie.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It is ultimately more routine than provocative, despite the timeliness and seriousness of the issues it raises.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
I do wish Mr. Robbins's one-note co-stars had been worthy of his performance, and that some of the melodramatics hadn't been quite so slapdash.
60
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
It's a kick to see the Tim Robbins version of the man recently described by the Microsoft trial judge as "Napoleonic" installed in a disgustingly opulent Bond-villain HQ/pad, and the overwrought Boiler Room-meets-The Game scenario is not without its own schlocky pleasures.

58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's hooey, but it's hooey that picks up in the second half, not exactly redeeming itself but fitfully engaging.
50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The plot of Antitrust is intricate and uneven, overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Ironically, the filmmakers seem to think the audience for this movie about super-smart people is super-dumb.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
While Robbins has a good time playing the boyish devil, the rest of the principals transmit on an awfully low baud rate.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
An example of a film that begins with a provocative idea and then runs itself into the ground with clumsy structuring.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
They might have been able to make a nice little thriller out of Antitrust if they'd kept one eye on the Goofy Meter.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Taps into a fear hitherto unexplored by cinema: fear of Bill Gates.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Silly but fairly harmless.

50
Variety
Joe Leydon
Robbins is such a live wire that he's able to jumpstart his co-stars whenever they're interfacing onscreen.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
An inferior factory product, cranked out with little care and less imagination, that seems all the dumber because it's pretending to be smart and topical.
38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
An unintentional high-tech hoot.
38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Better than you might expect, if you didn't expect it to be any good.

30
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Poops out before it ever really gets going.

30
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
This compression of logic--coupled with two hours of ham-fisted delivery--guarantees that Antitrust won't jangle your nerves but will intermittently split your sides with laughter.

30
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
As a film, it essentially bites.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's phony and forced, but mostly it's just silly. If there was once a satirical edge to this thriller, it's been programmed right out.

25
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A big techno-dud.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A storyline that makes less sense than the current state of tech stocks on the Nasdaq.

20
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
A crap film that's steeped in liberal paranoia, but it's also so ludicrous that it falls under the guilty-pleasure category.

20
Slate
David Edelstein
Libel on one of the true visionaries of American business in the 20th century, a man unfairly demonized for doing what others strove to do but doing it faster and better.

10
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's too bad we don't have red, glowing DELETE buttons next to those soda cup holders. I could have done the world a favor.

10
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Antitrust is anti-fun, anti-wakefulness, and anti-interesting.
10
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.

0
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Monumentally silly thriller.

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