Rotten
A thriller without thrills.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Net
Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED.
1995 · 1h 54m · PG-13
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Irwin Winkler
Overview
Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project.
Director and cast
- Irwin Winkler Director
- Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett/Ruth Marx
- Jeremy Northam as Jack Devlin
- Dennis Miller as Dr. Alan Champion
- Wendy Gazelle as Ruth Marx
- Diane Baker as Mrs. Bennett
- Ken Howard as Michael Bergstrom
- Ray McKinnon as Dale Hessman
- Daniel Schorr Cast
- L. Scott Caldwell Cast
- Robert Gossett Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
44%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
The Net is never quite as sleek and chilling as it might have been, but it gives the old story of a wrongly accused innocent a nerve-wracking 90's twist.
Caryn James, New York Times
Fresh
A strong enough suspense thriller, a high-tech version of one of those spiraling nightmares in which an innocent person is chased by assassins and wanted by the police.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
The story is standard issue pepped up with a sampling of smart computer talk to give the impression the characters know what they're talking about.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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