Antitrust

Antitrust is an entertaining but not particularly coherent thriller about Milo Hoffman, a young computer genius who is hired by Bill Gates clone Gary Winston to help complete a groundbreaking communications system.

Winston of course turns out to be a power-crazed psychopath (otherwise he would hardly be a Gates clone, would he?), who will do anything to be number one, even if it means killing his competitors and stealing their software. When that fate befalls Milo's good friend, and Milo gets wind of the connection, his world collapses; his mentor is a cold-blooded criminal. Milo naturally wants to expose Winston and his methods, but that is easier said than done in a world that Winston monitors and has total control over. Even Milo's own girlfriend Alice is in Winston's pay, but what about the girl nerd Lisa? Surely there must be one person he can trust.

The Americans are good at making films, so good that they can make you buy an unreasonable plot, at least while you are watching the film. Antitrust is actually quite exciting, but the story is frankly a bit far-fetched, and there are several loose ends.