The Net 1995

Caryn James, New York Times: 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. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A thriller without thrills. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As an actress, Bullock has it all -- heart and soul, and mind, too. Read more

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

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This stuff is so concocted I had no business caring about it. But I did, because of Bullock. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more

Time Out: 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. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: 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. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Unfortunately, in movie theaters, as of now, there are no DELETE buttons. Read more