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

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

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

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

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

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2004

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Arch contrivance is the lifeblood of the Hollywood potboiler and this is competent, eminently watchable stuff with some sneaky takes on computer paranoia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2001

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

In terms of suspense, this Net is full of holes.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: B | Jul 28, 1995