"Antitrust" is scarily realistic.
Tim Robbins is absolutely frightening in every way as a Bill Gates twin. I went to a lecture by the John D. Rockefeller biographer and he said the only difference between JDR and Gates was that JDR had thugs working for him who beat people up and this movie just goes that extra step.
I actually have a friend of a friend who was recruited to Microsoft like the Ryan Phillippe character -- and he was a college drop-out in Israel. They absolutely troll the world looking for programming geniuses to solve problems for them so the disclaimer about Stanford University at the end wasn't necessary.
This was better than "The Net" or "Hackers" and worked both as a tekkie warning and as a thriller, with a neat femme fatale twist that yeah has been done before but I thought was done well.
(originally written 1/31/2001)
Tim Robbins is absolutely frightening in every way as a Bill Gates twin. I went to a lecture by the John D. Rockefeller biographer and he said the only difference between JDR and Gates was that JDR had thugs working for him who beat people up and this movie just goes that extra step.
I actually have a friend of a friend who was recruited to Microsoft like the Ryan Phillippe character -- and he was a college drop-out in Israel. They absolutely troll the world looking for programming geniuses to solve problems for them so the disclaimer about Stanford University at the end wasn't necessary.
This was better than "The Net" or "Hackers" and worked both as a tekkie warning and as a thriller, with a neat femme fatale twist that yeah has been done before but I thought was done well.
(originally written 1/31/2001)