Anti-Trust review
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10th November 2004
A nice idea in spirit, geek takes on the closed-source Microsoft Clone company. The parallels to Microsoft are a little to ham-fisted for my liking - even the CEO's name has the same initials albeit reversed. The film fails for two reasons. Firstly its target audience - geeks. It lines them up with a great tale of open versus closed source operating systems, ethically awful business practices and a thick helping of references to Microsoft. It then screws the geeks by having such implausible technical sequences. Everyone else who may have not cared about the technically impossible stories, don't give a monkeys about the theme of the film. Secondly, the characters (not inlcuding Robbins who, bless him, was very camp) were rubish, unlikeable and poorly developed. 1 of 5
