I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

i found the movie listed in https://github.com/k4m4/movies-for-hackers? utm_source=digitalocean_newsletter and watched it after Wargames. i had no idea what the film was about. The beginning was promising and after watching the first 15 minutes, i went on later and didn't stop before the end.i like the pace of this movie. It is constantly exciting. Sometimes, if a new plan appears and it seems to be something like "blah-blah" then still something exciting happens.Characters are played smoothly.The movie has a big message: Knowledge belongs to everybody. There are also smaller messages. One guy protects his system behind a firewall and thinks to have it secured well but as every lock is breakable and every human hackable he doesn't pay attention of being traced physically. The big story is that people who are hunting access to resources and want billions of a currency to achieve it, are ready to do whatever it takes. The one who has resources has the power. It is exactly the politics around us. And once a guy doesn't work for commerce and adores open source, he will be provided with financial support for working on his open source project. As he has a tunnel vision being concentrated on the principle of open source, he makes another mistake and can't see that his investor works for the same commerce the guy refused to work for. In America, there are Democrats and Liberals. Democrats say that Liberals are bad and Liberals say that Democrats are bad, although the boss of both branches is the same.The movie keeps being exciting to the end and the end is not too long. Watching this movie we get surprised and never know who is on who's side. There is somebody who switches two times the side. And overall it is a tactical game - who wins, the good or the bad?If somebody wants to learn some coding or hacking from this movie then also this is possible. The movie doesn't teach how to hack machines but it does a more efficient approach - how to hack humans. We can learn some black magic that everyone can perform.But unfortunately, overriding all the channels and networks with a piece of software is quite unrealistic so i would have made this thing differently. And as i don't like violence, for violence scenes, i cut off one more star. This is why i don't give 10 but it gets earned 8 points for messages, story and implementation.

A Movie made by Hacks and it Shows. Pretty-Boy Ryan Phillippe is Miscast as a Geek Computer Genius and is Blown Off the Screen anytime He Shares a Scene with Tim Robbins, a Grotesquely Exaggerated "Bill Gates" Type.Forced Melodramatics and a TV Tone, this Film Flopped, not because it didn't Ask some Timely Questions, but because it is just a Bad Movie. Not an Awful Movie but in Total, Pretty Bad.Nothing seems Believable, everything is Overdone, the Acting is Atrocious (except Robbins), the Writing is Bland and Boring, and most of the Action and Suspense takes place on a Computer Screen or a Keyboard, and a Half-Second after the Movie was Released it was Technologically Dated.Glaring Corporated Product Placement is Hypocritical Hubris and works Against the Anti-Corporate Message, and On and On. Bordering on Silly, Nothing much Resonates in the Heavy Scenario and the Ending is Predictable Fluff. Not as Bad as "The Net" (1995) as these things go. But Barely Achieves Average or Worth a Watch Status. Recommended but only as a Snapshot for what passed for Hollywood's Lack of Insight on the Subject and some "Real Life" Headline Grabbing from the Early 2000's.

I don't like this movie because it highlights ideas that threaten to put big companies and advertisers out of business.Advertisers and companies shouldn't be held to the same ethical standards as everyone else. We make more money than average citizens and should have a measure of immunity from being accused of stuff like this. Like Google's CEO alluded to, people should get over the fact that they're being exploited. We make too much money to simply throw in the towel now. Corporations and their henchmen have to make money somehow, even if it means crossing some boundary lines. The common people should accept their chains of bondage and stop expecting so much all the time.

Ryan Phillipe and Claire Forlani walk away with this geeky thriller, which has quite a bit to say about computer moguls and the information technology industry.Most of the promotion for this film was based around our antagonist Tim Robbins, and the resemblance of his character, Gary Winston, including look and mannerisms, to Micro Soft founder Bill Gates. But this is not really the crux of the film.Far more interesting, apart from leaps to the absurd made for plot purposes, is the film's depiction of the information industry, the attempt to monopolize the sector, and captures some of the particularly heinous accusations against both Microsoft and Apple. It even foreshadows Steve Jobs Apple domination being based around uniform compatibility of hardware and software.The film tells the story of computer nerd Milo, who works out of his garage with some geeky friends before doing the unthinkable, selling his soul to Winston to work at his high tech computer lab. Milo has a hot girlfriend, Alice (Forlani), and has "She's All That"'s Rachel Leigh Cook eyeing him off at work. But Winston seems to be constantly handing Milo pre written codes. Where are these coming from? Why does Winston need him if he's working this stuff out at home? Then one day Winston hands Milo a code he recognizes as belonging to his friend, who was murdered earlier in the week, and Milo realizes he is in a life or death struggle with a very dangerous man. A cat and mouse game ensues, with an immensely satisfying conclusion.The cast are all excellent, with Cook the closest to a weak link ( why do people think that when Cook wears glasses she looks nerdy?). Phillipe and Robbins are both excellent, and their scenes together are well worth the price of viewing. The dialogue at times dissolves into technobabble, but it usually (with two notable exceptions) manages to be plausible technobabble.AntiTrust- a satisfying geeky thriller with good performances and a tight enough script to keep you invested. Also, if you see the deleted scenes, you'll realize just how much better this film is due to smart production decisions.