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 The Net (DVD)
 The Net (DVD) ... Jeremy Northam ... / DVD released 01 August, 2005 at Uca Catalogue / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / The Net, the first of Hollywood's big cyber-thrillers of the mid-1990s, was also the most successful, thanks in large part to the natural appeal of star Sandra Bullock. Still riding high from Speed and While You Were Sleeping, Bullock plays a computer expert victimised by sinister cyber-forces who steal her identity for reasons unknown. It's a clever combination of high-tech paranoia and Hitchcockian references (including Jeremy Northam as a romantic stranger named Devlin, after Cary Grant in Notorious). Film historians may look back someday on films like this--Roger Ebert calls them "hacksploitation"--to see what they reveal about our society's reaction to the increasing role of technology in our lives, just as we now study the fears of Communism and the atom bomb reflected in films of the 1950s. Dennis Miller and Diane Baker co-star. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.comNewest Review: ... traits (on the beach… with her laptop…)are spotted by Jack Devlin (Jeremy Northam [Emma, Enigma, Gosford Park]). After ... more ... various events which I won’t elaborate on here, she finds that her real identity had been stolen and that she herself is now wanted by police in several states. What’s more, she realises that far more is at stake than she could possibly have imagined… and somehow, she’s caught up right in the middle of it.
The cinematography is effective throughout the film, and Bullock puts in one of her better serious performances here (though I still think quirky comedy is still more her style). Her character is given a decent wor...more |
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The Net (DVD): Come into my web, said the spider to the fly... (688 words)
by - written on 21/04/05 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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*** This review was originally published by myself at http://www.epinions.com/content_172583915140 *** The Net is a technological thriller starring Sandra Bullock, who plays Angela Bennett, a systems trouble-shooter with a particular interest in viruses. She is a typical nerd, sleeping little, living on take away food, having no boyfriend and practically no social life in the real world, preferring instead to spend all her time on the computer, logged into chat rooms, and the like. She receives a message from a friend / colleague (friendly colleague?) about something big that’s about to happen, but no details – he wants to meet her in person. Reluctantly she ... Read the complete review
"I'm Just Not Buying The Whole Package Here!" (1887 words)
by - written on 24/04/02 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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The Net is generic Hollywood movie-making, not at its most boring, but certainly at its most obvious and poorly researched. It has all the feeling of a dumb, glossy made for TV movie but with a big name star sitting in the lead role. Without a certain Miss Bullock riding on the crest of a highly successful movie called Speed which shot her into the limelight a little earlier I can in no way have imagined that this movie would have acheived anything other than to a straight to video release. It delves into the hi-tech world of hackers and the internet with all the expertise of your grandpa and his "where's middle C?" attitude when presented with a keyboard. ... Read the complete review
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