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by Brian McKay

"yet another Sandra Bullock vehicle that's as slow as 28k modem"

In the tradition of your crappy generic hollywood "intrigue" films comes "The Net".

The net is the internet of course. Sandra Bullock is the star. She's supposed to be some hot-shit computer consultant. What do we see her doing at the beginning of the film? Beta-testing "Wolfenstein 3d". Oh yeah, real high tech, honey. This film was made around the time of Quake 1, so you'd think they could have at least showed her playing "Doom".

That's the problem with this movie. Not only is it woefully ignorant of technology, but it fails to cover up that ignorance with a shred of interesting plot. Sandra goes on vacation, gets seduced by some guy with a brit accent, and finds herself pulled into the intrigue of "The Net". The gist is that there is some hacker program out there that makes breaking into the CIA's mainframe look about as easy as finding lesbian porn on yahoo. Speaking of which, that would be a much better use of your time than this movie.

If you want a Bullock action movie that didn't completely suck, rent "Speed". Stay away from this - unless of course you're an AOL user with a 28k modem and a Pentium 90mhz, in which case you'll be right up to speed with this film.

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12/24/09 Jeff Wilder Bullock's good and it does have some decent suspense. Runs out of steam towards the end. 3 stars

10/08/09 Kay D. One of Sandra Bullock's best performances. I really like this one. 5 stars

1/17/09 Shaun Wallner Very Boring! 1 stars

1/26/08 Pamela White Great plot and can truly happen , identity theft 5 stars

6/01/07 Charles Tatum Stupid coincidences eventually sink it 3 stars

1/18/07 David Pollastrini saw it but have no memory so it must have sucked 3 stars

11/05/06 Scum Slayer Great movie. Im a technogenious and the computer stuff was great 5 stars

8/12/06 Sepi53 Sandra is always GREAT 5 stars

7/22/04 Nobody I feel like I've seen this all before 3 stars

3/30/04 elise it's super 5 stars

12/29/03 Carlos Sandra has sucked my dick twice 3 stars

12/16/03 R.W. Welch Perils-of-Pauline type cyber thriller. None too convincing but moves pretty well. 3 stars

9/26/03 Alan Only the most ignorant could fall for this tripe. Bearable if watched for laughs. 2 stars

7/09/03 natasha_theobald a pretty good idea bogged down in the execution 2 stars

5/21/03 Alex Its cool.Sandra is agreat actress. 4 stars

3/25/03 Jack Sommersby Lackluster thriller. Improperly paced and lamely plotted. Miller is only standout. 2 stars

8/19/02 reggie wagstaff sandra bullock can blow me twice 1 stars

8/14/02 Michael Carruthers Not too bad, quite entertaining, but nothing outstanding. 3 stars

3/01/02 Butterbean Not a bad movie, it's just the run-of-the-mill thriller. 3 stars

10/23/01 Andrew Carden Great Premise and Plot, Horrible Acting, Script, and Visuals. 2 stars

8/10/01 Mr. Hat Sandra Bullock is pretty sexy. 4 stars

6/23/01 Justin Cheung Very enjoyable, I liked it a lot 5 stars

5/03/00 cort major Typical hollywood fluff-total waste of time. 2 stars

11/04/99 Mickey "Father Death" MacJohnstmyster Would have been better if it involved a bomb in her modem , if it's exceeded 50kbps BOOM . 1 stars

10/14/99 Lame-Oh This movie is seriously screwed. If you want to see a good cyber-punk movie, see The Matrix 2 stars

5/02/99 Willow Possibly the worst final death scene I've had the misfortune to witness 1 stars

3/10/99 Ah Dooey At least TekWar was better. 2 stars

3/10/99 Oggy Warning: Incoming game! Get ready to Reboot! 2 stars

1/26/99 {{{OZ}}} Sandra Bullock is a computer genius. Yeah right. I believe that... not. 2 stars

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USA 28-Jul-1995 (PG-13) UK N/A Australia 14-Sep-1995 (M)

Directed by Irwin Winkler Written by John D. Brancato Michael Ferris Cast Sandra Bullock Jeremy Northam Dennis Miller Diane Baker Wendy Gazelle Ken Howard

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