Synopsis
Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down and make her the target of an assassination.
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Cast
- Sandra BullockAngela Bennett / Ruth Marx
- Jeremy NorthamJack Devlin
- Dennis MillerDr. Alan Champion
- Wendy GazelleRuth Marx
- Ken HowardMichael Bergstrom
- Diane BakerMrs. Bennett
- Ray McKinnonDale Hessman
- Daniel SchorrWNN Anchor
- L. Scott CaldwellPublic Defender
- Robert GossettBen Phillips
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This stuff is so concocted I had no business caring about it. But I did, because of Bullock. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
The Net is an efficient, workmanlike thriller that, at its best, does a canny job of exploiting the more fanciful edges of computer-age dread. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The Net is a scary film that could have been terrifying but for something slightly earnest and plodding in director Irwin Winkler's attack. - 70
The New York Times
This 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. - 63
ReelViews
The Net starts off strong but finishes weak, and if not for the presence of actress Sandra Bullock, who graces nearly every scene, this movie might have been a snoozer. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
A thoroughly conventional exercise in pop paranoia with trendy appurtenances, The Net has little to offer outside of Bullock's moderately appealing presence. - 60
Empire
The Net entertains but is unlikely to hang around on the cerebral hard disk for too long. - 60
Variety
Riddled with more coincidences and implausibilities than Hitchcock permitted himself in his entire career, The Net still gets by as a reasonably suspenseful, very au courant thriller.
