Startup.com Review
Despite the initial hesitation of resigning to its dubiously emotional subjects, Startup.com is a surprisingly sobering look at the harsh reality of the cutthroat business world online. Highlighting the trials and tribulations of a burgeoning dot-com enterprise could have made for self-important, tedious viewing, but the filmmakers find a deeper, more resonant story dealing with a crumbling friendship and the importance of priorities, even in the midst of big business. The leading men come off as abrasive and phony a good deal of the time, but it is these qualities that truly relay the sometimes callous nature of the industry. Startup wisely never makes them martyrs or saints and resists sentimentality in telling its engrossing story. The film is slightly overlong, but always engaging, and sheds much-needed light on the high-powered Internet boom's rise and fall. The film premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, where it was shown in digital format, as opposed to the film transfer used in its theatrical release. Jason Clark, Rovi
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