The Worst Film Ever

Good concept, poorly executed.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Ryan Phillipe had his time in the sun with films like I know what you did last summer and cruel intentions. With anti-trust he delivers a solid performance of a naive up and coming computer coding genius. He is recruited by Tim Robbins who plays a Bill Gates type . Early on the viewer feels as if Tim Robbins character has alterior motives. This film is a fun watch don't take it to seriously though it is A by the numbers thriller

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.

I saw this movie because it featured in some most-watchable movies list, and having seen it, I don't trust the list so much. It is one of your run-of-the-mill thriller belonging to the days when computer geeks were still a revered, and rare, species. Ryan Phillippe plays Milo Hoffman, a stereotypical computer geek, who originally wants to make a software, open-source and all, with his best buddy Teddy Chin (Yee Jee Tso), both of them being among "the top 20 programmers in the world" (how convenient!). But then comes Bill Gates' doppelganger Ryan Winston, offering them the benefits and perks of coming to work in N.U.R.V., the monopolistic giant of the computers industry (wink wink Microsoft!). Milo takes it, Teddy doesn't. Teddy dies. Between the name of the movie and the sequencing of the scenes, you can see the 'twist' coming from a mile away. But what really does this movie in is its portrayal of computer geeks, playing on every stereotype you can think of; they live and work in their garages (why they were doing it while the house was clearly theirs, beats me), they have no social life ("you have a girlfriend? Thats rare around here"), coding and generating algorithms being basically two guys prancing around the computer, hitting the keys with hand movements that would put the Jedi to shame, and yes, one of them HAS to be Asian. This apart from the obvious hate that the writers had for Microsoft; there is no way you can look at Ryan Winston and not be reminded of Bill Gates, and of course the computer that finally beats the system HAD to be a Macintosh. My advice, stay the hell away from this one and random internet lists.

I think the target audience for this film is too small. Hardcore programmers will dislike this film because the code they used was pretty much bullc*** code and because the way this company doesn't really resemble the atmosphere in a real IT company (I know from experience). Also, the entire plot was way too far-fetched to really come off as realistic at any time.People not into IT are not likely to enjoy this film either, since there's too much techno-babble for anyone not familiar with IT to get some insight in what's going on half of the time. When they speak of an IP address, an interface, an OS or decompressing the audience is expected to understand all of these terms to have an idea of what's happening.So what's left as a possible target audience is a group of geeky kids and teenagers who're into computers enough to understand all the techno-babble but who are too naive and inexperienced to have any idea what working in an IT company feels like.... Not a good move, I'd say.Overall the movie does make a decent effort to keep some tension alive, but the far-fetched plot, the silly situation, the more than average amount of techno-babble and the bullc*** code seriously limit the possible target audience for this film.