An often powerful powerful techno-thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2024

The storyline is so convoluted that even the likable Bullock wears out her welcome at the keyboard.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2024

Despite a vigorous performance from the likeable Bullock, you'll feel like hitting the escape button on The Net in a big hurry.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 29, 2024

A romp through mid-90s computer paranoia and identity theft seen through the eyes of the overblown Hollywood thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2024

Both prescient and utterly ridiculous, this technothriller is a perfect vehicle for Bullock. Bonus points for fitting in both a water AND a carnival set piece, thereby cementing its status as an iconic 90s title

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2023

More than a trendy cyberthriller.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2022

The Internet, the global concatenation of computer systems, should make a fertile premise for a good, scary, paranoid fantasy. Sad to say, The Net ain't it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2021

While there's suspense aplenty as she pits her computer skills and some old-fashioned ingenuity against the villains, Irwin Winkler's thriller is at best perfunctory in its treatment of character.

| Original Score: 1/3 | Mar 17, 2021

The acting was terrible, but for 115 minutes I was entertained.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2020

Sandra Bullock is lucky to have a career after this...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2020

Bullock makes for a sympathetic, spunky protagonist, who is fun to watch even if the plot takes a turn toward the realm of overly predictable thrillers.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 16, 2020

'90s mystery-thriller is still relevant; violence, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2019

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2011

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.

| Jan 14, 2011

A thriller without thrills.

| Jan 14, 2011

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.

| Mar 26, 2009

The Net does build up to a decently tense climax, but its moral -- live your life off-line -- feels heavy-handed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2006

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.

| Jan 26, 2006