
Angela Bennett is a computer expert. This young and beautiful analyst is never far from a computer and modem. The only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, whom she's only spoken to over the net and phone, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug. That night, he left to meet her and was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk she has received only hours before she leaves for vaca... (Full plot summary below)
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Angela Bennett is a computer expert. This young and beautiful analyst is never far from a computer and modem. The only activity she has outside of computers is visiting her mother. A friend, whom she's only spoken to over the net and phone, Dale Hessman, sent her a program with a weird glitch for her to de-bug. That night, he left to meet her and was killed in a plane crash. Angela discovers secret information on the disk she has received only hours before she leaves for vacation. Her life then turns into a nightmare, her records are erased from existence and she is given a new identity, one with a police record. She struggles to find out why this has happened and who has it in for her.
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| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergSilly techno-espionage chase-thriller copycat. Bullock's miscast, but does what she can. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksA tense and highly entertaining suspense-thriller. |
| Baltimore SunStephen HunterIt's exciting and satisfying, even if the chief villain isn't terribly original and the chase scenes are overlong. Bullock is plucky and believable as an average person who must marshal her strength and smarts to get her life back. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderIf you forget the fact that computer-literacy is a prerequisite, The Net is at its heart a traditional suspense thriller. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe Net is a scary film that could have been terrifying but for something slightly earnest and plodding in director Irwin Winkler's attack. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Net is an efficient, workmanlike thriller that, at its best, does a canny job of exploiting the more fanciful edges of computer-age dread. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis stuff is so concocted I had no business caring about it. But I did, because of Bullock. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallThis stuff is so concocted I had no business caring about it. But I did, because of Bullock. |
| The New York TimesCaryn JamesThis paranoid fantasy is so resonant that it makes The Net an enjoyably creepy thriller, even though Irwin Winkler belongs to the nothing-is-too-obvious school of directing. |
| Empire MagazineIan NathanArch contrivance is the lifeblood of the Hollywood potboiler and this is competent, eminently watchable stuff with some sneaky takes on computer paranoia. |