The Net (1995)

Average rating

(61%)

Starring:	Sandra Bullock \| Jeremy Northam \| Dennis Miller
Director:	Irwin Winkler
Studio:	COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Run time:	110 mins
Genres:	Thriller
Languages:	English
Dubbed:	French, German
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released:	September 09, 2002
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Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a beautiful but reclusive computer systems analyst who enjoys her lonely nights surfing the net and entering chat lines. When a friend sends her a disk with a "curious" bug, she is caught up in an Internet nightmare when she tries out the new program. When the "beta" program gains her access to some of the world's most sensitive databases, real danger is soon headed her way. Directed Irwin Winkler produced such film classics as ROCKY and GOODFELLAS.

Rating of 2 stars out of 5

Sandra Bullock's star charisma raises this mediocre computer-age paranoia fantasy to the level of watchable entertainment. The Speed heroine plays a lonely hacker who uncovers a criminal conspiracy, but how she copes with the threat of cyberspace annihilation from an unknown assassin turns an already slow-moving thriller into a predictable game of hide-and-seek that relies on major lapses in logic and coincidence for a happy ending. The neat electronic visuals can't hide the contrived and confusing direction by Irwin Winkler.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4 stars
Diverting Thriller

A Customer from London, 15th March, 2004

This is an early lead role for Sandra Bullock who made this straight after Speed. The film came out during the early days of the internet when people were worried about the hold computers can have over people's lives. Sandra plays an agrophobic computer programmer who accidentally stumbles on a huge scandal and in the process has her life erased (computer-wise that is) by sexy Jeremy Northam. I liked this movie, it did not tax my brain at all but was involving enough to keep me hooked until the end.

There are some good DVD extras including two commentaries and a 'making of...' featurette. I liked the directors/producers commentary the most, it provided some interesting insight into the film.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5 stars
Sandra Bullocks best films

MidnightCaller from Lancashire, 9th June, 2005

The Net This is one of Sandra Bullock's best films, she plays Angela Bennetts a software engineer who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. This film has a touch of a Hitchcockian thriller to it. The night before she goes on holiday, a colleague mails her a mystery virus that provides access to reams of top-secret classified information; however, neither his plane crashing, nor a total computer meltdown at LA airport alerts Angela to danger… I don’t want to say more and spoil the plot… enjoy!

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