Antitrust 2001

Critics score:
24 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: As sly as it is knowing, and played with wit to match its conviction. Read more

Rick Holter, Dallas Morning News: Anyone who pays $8 for this turkey will be broiling. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Reasonably smart and moderately entertaining. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A movie which is too stone-dumb serious to realize that it would have played much better as a satire of digital-era corporate paranoia. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Let's just say that this may be the stupidest movie ever made about smart people. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A not-bad, highly topical diversion. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Does a passable job of delivering paranoia and lightweight suspense in a fast-paced, glitzy package. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: Begins with an engaging setup but gradually lapses into a messy web of cloak-and-dagger contrivance, implausible action, silly plot twists and dumb dialogue. Read more

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

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: My, my, such a high-tech setting -- too bad it's marred by such a low-tech plot. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Filled with young hotties and a long streak of silliness, but is as genuinely suspenseful as any thriller since Napster crossed the Rubicon. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film's heavy-handed and wrongheaded depiction of geek culture makes me almost ashamed to count myself as a card-carrying member. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: They might have been able to make a nice little thriller out of Antitrust if they'd kept one eye on the Goofy Meter. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Howitt ... doesn't take firm enough control over Howard Franklin's screenplay, and allows the story to career wildly into the territory of absurdity. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A thriller is in trouble when the audience doesn't care about the hero and actively likes the bad guy. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Got a by-the-numbers plot? A premise that's intriguing but also has holes in it? Dialogue that needs punching up? Hire Tim Robbins. He can save just about anything. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Robbins offers a delightfully spot-on Gates caricature. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: The flashy topicality amounts to little, and Peter Howitt's slavishly generic direction doesn't help. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A thriller even trilobites encased in rock would find predictable. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A cliche-riddled, techno-babbly psycho-thriller. Read more