Okay, was anyone else out there bored enough to go spend $7.50 to see `Antitrust'? I wouldn't be surprised if you don't want to admit it ;-) The reason I'm posting, in case you all didn't know, is because there may be a few of you who would watch the movie because of the two words `open source.' Now, you may be thinking, ``Open Source? You can't say that in a movie! It's too cheesy!'' You would be right, but they did it anyway. More of you might see the movie because of Tim Robbins or Rachel Leigh Cook (originally from Minneapolis, IIRC) -- those are probably much better reasons ;-) Anyway, my opinion is that the movie played like version 0.10 of Gnome. It looked kind of cool, but things just didn't work quite right and it crashed a lot. Fortunately, it looks like the f/x people actually listened to John Hall, rather than inventing absolutely impossible scenarios. In most movies and TV shows, any scenes involving technology make me groan, while the rest is usually okay. This movie seemed to be the other way around. Sure, they did dumb stuff (Fool! rsh is insecure!), but there was much less reaching beyond the realm of possibility than what I might have expected (no looking around corners in 2d images or hacking traffic lights in this movie). The train wrecks in Antitrust are in the parts that are really supposed to make it a thriller. Tim Robbins did a good job (duh), but the others just didn't stand up. IMHO, it seemed more like a problem of bad directing than bad acting. I guess the writer and director are probably much more suited to comedies (what they've mostly done before, according to IMDB) than thrillers.. If you have a desire to see this movie, I'd probably suggest waiting for it to come out on video, and then borrowing it from someone else who rented it ;-) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ It is bad luck to be / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ superstitious. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]