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The Net Details

1995 Certificate 12
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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 .. Read more

Starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller
Director Irwin Winkler
Genres Thriller

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The Net

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.

Starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller
Director Irwin Winkler
Studio COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 50 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Thriller
Language DVD: English
Dubbed French, German
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 09 Sep 2002
Production year: 1995
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of The Net

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  • 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.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • A dully paranoid thriller that is a bad imitation of Hitchcock. Its plot is full of implausibilities and it is also computer illiterate, which doesn't help, though Sandra Bullock's performance does, even if it is not enough to save the film.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Diverting Thriller

    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.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 15 Mar 2004 15:59

  • Most recent members' review of The Net

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Diverting Thriller

    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.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 15 Mar 2004 15:59

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    • 22 Feb 2008

    If the World Wide Web were an actor it would be declared box office poison. Over the years several films have attempted to position themselves as topical and on the pulse by tackling cyber crimes (I'm thinking of The Net, Firewall and Perfect Stranger, for starters), but invariably they're stuck with the visual tedium of a someone sitting at a computer, and long, bewildering technical explanations to explain how it is that the bad guy is avoiding identification. Untraceable suffers from the... Read more

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