AntiTrust

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.

USA Today Andy Seiler

Robbins' performance as Winston is the best thing in the movie.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

It is ultimately more routine than provocative, despite the timeliness and seriousness of the issues it raises.

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.

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.

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.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

The plot of Antitrust is intricate and uneven, overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Ironically, the filmmakers seem to think the audience for this movie about super-smart people is super-dumb.

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.

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.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Taps into a fear hitherto unexplored by cinema: fear of Bill Gates.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Silly but fairly harmless.

Variety Joe Leydon

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

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

An unintentional high-tech hoot.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Better than you might expect, if you didn't expect it to be any good.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Poops out before it ever really gets going.

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.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

As a film, it essentially bites.

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.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

A big techno-dud.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

A storyline that makes less sense than the current state of tech stocks on the Nasdaq.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Antitrust is anti-fun, anti-wakefulness, and anti-interesting.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Monumentally silly thriller.