The Net 2.0 (2006)

Thanks for the memories!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I assume that most of the music is Turkish. The Turkish music is nice but there is too much of it; very much too much. There is other audio added to the chase and fight scenes and such and it was all too distracting for me.Technically it is impossible. There is so much wrong with this technically. For one thing, hacking a password is not as easy as they described in this movie. Impersonating someone for a big bank would not be easy since if it were many people would be doing it.I am so disappointed that Keegan Tracy (formerly Keegan Connor Tracy) was in a movie as disappointing as this. I do not understand that.

Had I not been sick and bored with everything else on my cable TV, I wouldn't have bothered watching The Net 2.0 .This is the only movie I've ever seen that has inspired me to see what other people on the net thought about how incredibly terrible it really was. I even registered at IMDb just for the purpose of expressing my disgust at this film. Although I do have to say I'm particularly amused at the comments above praising the film. It's almost like the director and/or the actors have logged in to talk up this piece of tripe.Intro : My name is Hope. I'm an orphan. I like telling jokes about my name and its literal meaning. Did I mention my name is Hope? It is. Hope. I hope you know that my name is Hope.Cut to the first of many ridiculous takes on computer security as we see Hope and her douche boyfriend having an argument after she rids his MS laptop of a virus by typing random messages overheard in a bar near a programming office into a GUI while the virus gives her a countdown of how long it will take before his laptop is infected (or blows up, I couldn't tell).The break down of this is that she's going to Turkey to work as a computer security expert for some people she's never heard of. After losing all of her money on her flight to Turkey via her tablet pc that conveniently counted down her funds before stripping her bare, she arrives with the wrong type of visa, then gets paranoid at the drop of a hat and proceeds to tell her story to the first American woman she sees, a woman who consequently steals her identity using Hope's aforementioned story.Cue her going to a job with a "Super-computer" that is completely graphically driven and shows every transaction happening at a major bank in real-time as pop-ups, complete with location and amount. I won't even touch on the laser "security grid".Then watch as she gets in a car chase, which she concludes by dropping an LPG tank that was rattling around in the back of her stolen truck in front a Mercedes that promptly blows up on impact with said tank. The writing for this scene goes like this : "I hope this works". Pulls lever in cab. Tank drops in front of Merc. Tank blows up. Hope pumps her fist and says "Yes!" Weak.In the end, it was all a con job by the Russian Mafia and her douche boyfriend to get her to steal money for them which she ends up with at the end after faking her own death in an anti-climactic scene involving the douche and his co-conspirator, the psychologist.So basically, if it wasn't for the acting, the direction, the script and the production values, this might have made a good ad for MSoft products and Istanbul.Give it a miss, or have a laugh at this tragic, train-wreck of a movie.One star, but only because I can't rate it any lower.

This film was just plain awful, if you want to waste your time watching it, please wait until it airs on public TV and don't waste you money on a rental. While I cannot very well discredit a movie and rate it so low without an explanation, lets sum it up per the following:1. C-grade acting. Yes people, this is actually below a B-grade film in my book. 2. Terrible script/premise. Watch it and you will see, almost everything that happens is beyond stupid and highly improbable.I think the script is was really killed it for me, but you'll have to judge for yourself as I don't want to include any spoilers (you can glean them yourself from other users' comments. Good luck if you see this one, but save your money! You've been warned.

After watching this, Sony pictures should look itself in the mirror, and ask themselves if any sensible person would check his personal savings from a business class seat in a airplane, and then toss the tablet screen away, with no password security active, just because a stewardess wants to make a chit chat? This movie not only stinks in its story line, any sensible diet coke drinking U.S. patriot knows that these kind of actions are asking for trouble. Why don't they make The Net 3-1/2, add Linux and MacOS into the game, and create some good laughs? Come on! After how they guillotined any credits of whats left of this genre, why don't create some parody. I give The Net 2.0 4 out of 10, because the actors did a good job, and made the movie endurable.