While Antitrust is definitely dated, I was surprised with how authentic the computer stuff was. They weren't using laughably fake graphics and animations on the monitors (*cough*The Net*cough*), they were actually showing regular, old, boring code on the screen. The story isn't great - it's a lesser version of The Firm - but this is a fun little thriller I enjoyed watching.

This movie is best hackers movie. If you liked Hackers 1 and Hackers 2 movies you'll love this one. Exceptional. Characters acts very very well.I'm disappointed because of the votes. This movie must be at least 7.0 :((((((. I love this film and it has a lot of fans. We want a sequel or prequel. Is good than Social Network. I didn't like it. Antitrust also is directed very well is not a B movie. Ryan Fellipe acts very well. Tim Robbins performance is awesome. He looks like Bill Gates also his house. The garage reminds me Steve Jobs and Wozniak's garage. In movie Gary Winston says "Bill Gates is primitive ".I hope that will be another one. 10/10

I saw "AntiTrust" (or "Conspiracy.com" for those of us here who are Europeans) on an International flight back to the US when it first came out. I had no idea what it was about, hadn't even heard about it, but the flight was a red eye and I had drank too much coffee. :^) I work in the Industry, so movies like "Hackers" (salami techniques are so "Superman 3/Office Space") and "The Net" (Sandra Bullock just reminds me of a cheaper, less talented hack version of Julia Roberts) never impressed me much in the way that "War Games" had when I was young.Anyhow - I was pleasantly surprised that the writers actually did some research on the subject, the code shown was real, it didn't splash a lot of goofy futuristic computer screens into my face, and NURV reminded me of a smaller dot com I had worked for in Seattle (that has since gone belly up when the dot com bubble burst). I also worked at Microsoft around the time AntiTrust came out, so NURV's campus environment wasn't too far off for 2001.Yeah - it had a lot of Microsoft/Gates bashing in it. Gary Winston was a Bill Gates clone. But overall, I found the acting to be fine (not weak like some have stated). Don Davis did a heck of a job on the soundtrack (I listen to the audio CD when I code every once in awhile now). Most of it I could believe (as far as a movie goes) - the industrial espionage, the monopoly, the do anything to achieve your goals up to and including murder.If I had one bone to pick about the movie, it would be all the unbelievable "fiber optic, fish-eye cameras" that NURV used to spy on non-NURV coders. Of course, in 2001, "spyware" wasn't as much of an issue (wasn't even a household term) as it is today. If AntiTrust was released today - spyware and OS vulnerabilities would have been NURV's back door to those programmers' systems.Too many people look at movies like AntiTrust and pick apart them apart because of they don't portray the Industry realistically. Okay, but let's face it, the IT Industry 99% of the time is boring 8 to 5 drudge work. No more exciting that watching paint dry or ice cubes melt. And no one will go see a movie like that. I liked this movie for its entertainment value, if I wanted a movie that accurately portrays the IT Industry ... I'll just go to work in real life.

The ending of this movie almost made me laugh out loud. It is by far about the most unrealistic ending I have ever seen in a movie. In the real world, it wouldn't be the character of Tim Robbins who got arrested, but the character portrayed by Ryan Phillippe.The illegal broadcast, combined with the illegal distributing of the software that made that broadcast possible, would ensure a lifetime in a jail cell for Milo and his friends, instead of being treated like heroes as happens in this movie Basically, If you hate companies that make money, and wish to make heroes out of people who can't abide by the law, then this movie is something for you.However, if you actually have a working brain in your head, you won't need to bother with this film, which in the end is nothing more then a very unrealistic propaganda film for open source software