The Net: Critic Reviews

As an actress, Bullock has it all -- heart and soul, and mind, too.

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.

Reminiscent of a slew of films, including The Pelican Brief and The Fugitive, The Net -- ploddingly directed by Irwin Winkler -- is frustratingly average in almost every other respect.

Unfortunately, in movie theaters, as of now, there are no DELETE buttons.

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.

This stuff is so concocted I had no business caring about it. But I did, because of Bullock.

A thriller without thrills.

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.

Borrowing heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and John Grisham, director Irwin Winkler reduces a potentially-fascinating premise to the spearhead of a routine thriller.

Technophiles will find certain aspects of the plot less than plausible but a big budget, Bullock and a tense finale ensure Winkler dials up a daft but enjoyable diversion.

Director Irwin Winkler is as graceless as ever, although the gritty look and refreshingly low-tech action sequences are welcome.

Someday the next generation of film buffs will rent some of today's mega-buck blockbuster summer movies and watch them as B-movie camp.

...The Net has aged just as poorly as one might've expected...

Pretty soon she's fleeing from her gun-wielding seducer, trying to recover an identity that's being systematically erased through alteration of her personal computer records, and dodging bullets on spinning carousels.

Silly techno-espionage chase-thriller copycat. Bullock's miscast, but does what she can.

One of Bullock's best - has as much byte as it does bang

Fun popcorn entertainment, thanks in no small part to the always-likable Bullock.