peacecop kalmer: i found the movie listed in https://github.com/k4m4/movies-for-hackers? utm_source=digitalocean_newsletter and watched it after Wargames. i had no idea what the film was about. The beginning was promising and after watching the first 15 minutes, i went on later and didn't stop before the end.i like the pace of this movie. It is constantly exciting. Sometimes, if a new plan appears and it seems to be something like "blah-blah" then still something exciting happens.Characters are played smoothly.The movie has a big message: Knowledge belongs to everybody. There are also smaller messages. One guy protects his system behind a firewall and thinks to have it secured well but as every lock is breakable and every human hackable he doesn't pay attention of being traced physically. The big story is that people who are hunting access to resources and want billions of a currency to achieve it, are ready to do whatever it takes. The one who has resources has the power. It is exactly the politics around us. And once a guy doesn't work for commerce and adores open source, he will be provided with financial support for working on his open source project. As he has a tunnel vision being concentrated on the principle of open source, he makes another mistake and can't see that his investor works for the same commerce the guy refused to work for. In America, there are Democrats and Liberals. Democrats say that Liberals are bad and Liberals say that Democrats are bad, although the boss of both branches is the same.The movie keeps being exciting to the end and the end is not too long. Watching this movie we get surprised and never know who is on who's side. There is somebody who switches two times the side. And overall it is a tactical game - who wins, the good or the bad?If somebody wants to learn some coding or hacking from this movie then also this is possible. The movie doesn't teach how to hack machines but it does a more efficient approach - how to hack humans. We can learn some black magic that everyone can perform.But unfortunately, overriding all the channels and networks with a piece of software is quite unrealistic so i would have made this thing differently. And as i don't like violence, for violence scenes, i cut off one more star. This is why i don't give 10 but it gets earned 8 points for messages, story and implementation.

LeonLouisRicci A Movie made by Hacks and it Shows. Pretty-Boy Ryan Phillippe is Miscast as a Geek Computer Genius and is Blown Off the Screen anytime He Shares a Scene with Tim Robbins, a Grotesquely Exaggerated "Bill Gates" Type.Forced Melodramatics and a TV Tone, this Film Flopped, not because it didn't Ask some Timely Questions, but because it is just a Bad Movie. Not an Awful Movie but in Total, Pretty Bad.Nothing seems Believable, everything is Overdone, the Acting is Atrocious (except Robbins), the Writing is Bland and Boring, and most of the Action and Suspense takes place on a Computer Screen or a Keyboard, and a Half-Second after the Movie was Released it was Technologically Dated.Glaring Corporated Product Placement is Hypocritical Hubris and works Against the Anti-Corporate Message, and On and On. Bordering on Silly, Nothing much Resonates in the Heavy Scenario and the Ending is Predictable Fluff. Not as Bad as "The Net" (1995) as these things go. But Barely Achieves Average or Worth a Watch Status. Recommended but only as a Snapshot for what passed for Hollywood's Lack of Insight on the Subject and some "Real Life" Headline Grabbing from the Early 2000's.

betatest-internet-inbox I saw "AntiTrust" (or "Conspiracy.com" for those of us here who are Europeans) on an International flight back to the US when it first came out. I had no idea what it was about, hadn't even heard about it, but the flight was a red eye and I had drank too much coffee. :^) I work in the Industry, so movies like "Hackers" (salami techniques are so "Superman 3/Office Space") and "The Net" (Sandra Bullock just reminds me of a cheaper, less talented hack version of Julia Roberts) never impressed me much in the way that "War Games" had when I was young.Anyhow - I was pleasantly surprised that the writers actually did some research on the subject, the code shown was real, it didn't splash a lot of goofy futuristic computer screens into my face, and NURV reminded me of a smaller dot com I had worked for in Seattle (that has since gone belly up when the dot com bubble burst). I also worked at Microsoft around the time AntiTrust came out, so NURV's campus environment wasn't too far off for 2001.Yeah - it had a lot of Microsoft/Gates bashing in it. Gary Winston was a Bill Gates clone. But overall, I found the acting to be fine (not weak like some have stated). Don Davis did a heck of a job on the soundtrack (I listen to the audio CD when I code every once in awhile now). Most of it I could believe (as far as a movie goes) - the industrial espionage, the monopoly, the do anything to achieve your goals up to and including murder.If I had one bone to pick about the movie, it would be all the unbelievable "fiber optic, fish-eye cameras" that NURV used to spy on non-NURV coders. Of course, in 2001, "spyware" wasn't as much of an issue (wasn't even a household term) as it is today. If AntiTrust was released today - spyware and OS vulnerabilities would have been NURV's back door to those programmers' systems.Too many people look at movies like AntiTrust and pick apart them apart because of they don't portray the Industry realistically. Okay, but let's face it, the IT Industry 99% of the time is boring 8 to 5 drudge work. No more exciting that watching paint dry or ice cubes melt. And no one will go see a movie like that. I liked this movie for its entertainment value, if I wanted a movie that accurately portrays the IT Industry ... I'll just go to work in real life.

johnslegers 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.