The Net [Blu-ray]

If you're into computers and you like a suspense movie, you'll probably love The Net. It combines the two quite well and Sandra Bullock does one of her best movies imo. In the film, she lives alone, spending most of her time fixing her company's computers on line. She seems to rarely go out or socialize except with others by computer. She even orders her food over the computer, and it's delivered. Because she keeps to herself, hardly anyone knows her personally, and her mother is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's Disease, so she doesn't remember her. Her only friend is an ex boyfriend, who happens to be a psychiatrist, and she's broken up with him. The fact that she's so incognito has a lot to do with the film. Before leaving for her first vacation in years, she get's a call from a friend in her company who is confused about a weird disk that's come into his possesion, and wants her to help him. Not willing to figure it out over the phone or on the computer, he tells her he needs to see her in person and he's flying to her home in LA. He never arrives.She takes her vacation, but while at the beach she meets a hacker. Both are lying on the beach with computers clicking away. He seems like a nice enough guy, but beware, maybe he's not. The real plot actually begins at this point. From then on it's a mystery and a chase. This hacker works for a shady crime syndicate whose trying to take over the government by hacking into their computers.She's chased all over the movie by this underground bunch, and I won't tell you the ending, but it's pretty exciting. Bullock is really good in this one.PS I save a lot of DVD's and this was one of them. Re-watched this one last night, and while I have a computer (a Mac) I couldn't understand much of what I saw on the computers in this film. First of all I rarely use discs for what I do on my computer which is for email,and to entertain myself with all the new game shows and websites you can have fun on. But my husband and I were alone last night couldn't decide what DVD to watch. Finally we decided to watch and old mystery. It's 2012 now, almost 2013 next month. So I was confused by the type of computers Bullock had. Especially all those discs. Ordering dinner and having it delivered by computer? The first time I watched it, ages ago, I really liked the film. But this time, not so much. I'm no computer geek, and don't need discs for much of anything. Already the computer tells me to upgrade, and I haven't been using this latest one very long.Anyway, though I've seen the story, it still gave me a good mystery, even though it began to get weird when in one scene after another nobody, not even the police tried to check her story, except on a computer. It would have been so easy.Angela's mother is in a home suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and doesn't know her. But the hospital staff she's in would have had to met her to admit her and give follow ups on her condition. I know this to be true, because my mother was also in a hospital for Alzheimer's Disease. The other thing is that once she realized her identity was stolen, she went about trying to help herself in the wrong way. When she first got home and her home was for sale, and her name was changed, she tried to figure things out for herself, when instead she should have gone straight to the police and told them what happened to her on her vacation. In fact, since her name was changed before she left her hotel, she could have told them that part as well. In fact, she should have gone to the police before going home! She must have suspected something going on after her experience with that stranger she met. Then while trying to escape from him by boat she was in a wreck. She apparently was rescued, and and spent time in the hospital for several days. So, that story could have been checked by telephone. Why not call police from the hospital and tell them what happened to her? I think she would have had a much easier time of it had she gone to some of these places for help. Computers were not the only thing cops used back then. How about a telephone call and a visit to the hospital her mother was at? The girl was pleading for help, and I for one, think they would have tried.Anyway, as the movie went on, my husband and I, having seen the film before kept coming up with ideas where she went wrong and got herself into so much trouble. Also, how can you believe that the place where she worked by computer never saw her in the flesh, never met her? That too didn't add up. I know people who can work at home on computers, but they have to come to work sometimes. Apparently, this firm never saw her once. I think if you've seen the film by DVD as I have in the past, you could come up with a lot of ideas Angela never thought of.

I loved this movie and it showed how dangerous using the internet can be, both then and now. She was scared, yet brave, and persevered. If she didn't live in the end, I would have hated it. Whoever scored the music to this movie did as good a job as the music in "Jaws." When something awful was getting ready to happen, the music gave me a knot in my gut. It was extremely pensive. The most frightening part to me was how none of us is safe from having our identity stolen and private information revealed. A few key strokes could ruin a retired senior with few ties to the outside world. She made a good target, because she lived such a solitary life, even ordering her food online. How many of us can relate? I definitely recommend it.

I gotta give this movie Five Stars. I'm the 949th person to review it and I'll go into details in the next paragraph.I first saw this movie on videotape at my girlfriend's house in 1998. I missed it in theaters but in the 22 years since I last saw the film I realize I'd forgotten most of the film! Yah, it's true. While I remembered the basic gist of the film the specific nuances of the plot had eluded me. This made watching it on DVD all the more special. I like how this role was made for a woman. Sandra Bullock is the girl next door and comes across as smart, savvy, tenacious and intelligent. All of these are things that suit her well and kept her character alive throughout an ordeal that would have destroyed most people in life. This film reminds me of an old "Airwolf" episode titled: "The Girl Who Fell from The Sky." That episode dealt with a woman's memory being taken from her with the use of drugs because she witnessed a corrupt Senator involved in illegal arms deals with "terrorist killers." Her background was substituted with that of a prostitute and drug addict. In this case, Bullock's character comes into custody of a disc that allows one to access thru a backdoor into sensitive systems in the Gregg Microsystems database called Gatekeeper (Similar Company Name To The Now Defunct Sun Microsystems).On vacation in Mexico, Angela Bennett meets and falls in love with a handsome and dashing man but all is not as it seems as the man, Jack Devlin, is a hit man intent on retrieving the disc she has in her possession as well as taking her life. Devlin underestimates Bullock. Had he simply slain her on the boat instead of having sex with her, Gregg Microsystems, his employer, might well have succeed in their nefarious plans, but instead Angela Bennett (Nee Ruth Marx) was set on the world. Nothing could stop her in the end. The following paragraph is a paraphrase from Leonard Maltin's Review.Bullock plays a mousy, vulnerable computer whiz. When bad guys need a disc she possesses, they stop at nothing--including deleting, then manipulating her identity on official computer records. Anyone who's ever seen a real thriller will be ahead of this story at every turn. Maltin gives the film a Two and a Half Star rating out of Four Stars. That translates to Three Stars out of Five. I give it Four and a Half Stars out of Five. I liked Bullock's plucky character and wish she'd done a sequel to this film As a result, I'm going to have to buy the sequel and view it for myself. Buy this movie and you won't be disappointed. Is it the best thriller of all time? No, but it is still quite an enjoyable yarn. See the spot where Bullock sleeps in her car. Located at 1200 Santa Monica Blvd. Was a real car dealership at the time and a perfect location and still exists to this day 25 years later.A. Nathaniel Wallace, Jr.

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The age of this movie as you watch brings back memories of computers from years ago. The storyline is interesting and it can be exciting. It’s mainly fun going back in time to see what is now considered archaic computer usage.

Witches, spirits and hot guys. Enough said. I love this movie. I watch it quite often.

This movie must have been released up against a Box office Hit. Excellently played out great characters. Worth the watch.

This movie is so close to reality!!!

* SynopsisA home-based (Sandra Bullock) system analyst works for Cathedral in the mid-1990s U.S.A. She's a loner and dedicated to her job. She receives a floppy with what looks like a simple programming error. The disk is a way to break any security and enter any websites. The disk is security access to anywhere. On holiday in Mexico, she arranged, she meets a dashing fellow IT worker and she is swept over by him (Jeremy Northam). It follows he's been monitoring her and knows everything she has communicated with, including family history, He gets angry and wants this floppy and is willing to kill her for it. She escapes and is in hospital for a few days. Back home her identity has been stolen. She is terrified. Her medical and criminal records, her bank, and her home have been corrupted and hijacked. She is on the run and she has very few friends. What happens next?* CommentaryThis film has some tasty Power PC Apple hardware and a great OS that looks authentic for the time. Looking back, this story explains identity theft using computing equipment. It is ahead of its time. The film flows well and I am told that the total paranoia-inducing side is impossible. and the work she does, in reality, isn't hard to do. The male lead is good support to the lead actress. The film is great fun and I have seen it many times and each time it's enjoyable. The way out of corrupting records on a mainframe would not work as they would have backup systems in place to recover these files. And finally. her mother suffering from a mentally degenerative condition is not accurate as this person would swear profusely, so this is edited out.

Voici un sujet qui a le mérite de surfer sur la vague internet, à l'époque (1995) où le réseau informatique en était encore à ses débuts auprès du grand public. On retourne avec une certaine nostalgie (mais aussi un petit amusement) vers cette période où les micro-ordinateurs étaient encore volumineux et lents, affichant des écrans souvent monochromes, même si ceux qui étaient en couleurs, bénéficiaient d'un graphisme jugé performant pour l'époque, mais loin d'être aussi percutant que maintenant, tandis que les outils de sauvegarde se limitaient alors aux disquettes, larges et souples et que la moindre impression s'effectuait sur des grosses imprimantes déroulant du papier en continu dont il fallait détacher les bordures. Que de souvenirs pour les personnes (comme moi) qui ont vécu cette progression technologique au quotidien, jusqu'à maintenant. Les autres, trop jeunes pour avoir connu cette époque, pourront visionner ce film pour découvrir un matériel d'un autre temps, qu’ils découvriront avec des yeux curieux, voire étonnés.Ma critique portera sur le Blu Ray en import Allemand. Le BR délivre un très bon rendu, au niveau de l’image, les couleurs sont chaudes et le contraste restitue impeccablement les scènes sombres qui ont lieu durant la nuit. Le traitement du son effectué ici magnifie les nombreux retournements de situation, qui sont parfaitement restituées dans toute leur ampleur, les dialogues sont eux aussi de très bonne qualité et s’entendent très clairement. Les pistes audios contiennent la Version Française, qui est plutôt bonne, mais elle reste en dessous de la Version Originale avec Sous-Titres Français, qui est à privilégier, plus précise et beaucoup plus dynamique, qui permet d’entendre les véritables voix des acteurs au niveau des dialogues, ce qui est un vrai régal pour ce genre de film. Chacun fera selon son choix.Bien que le matériel présenté dans le film ait vieilli, le propos du film reste plus que jamais d'actualité et montre que la technologie, placée entre de mauvaises mains, peut s'avérer complétement destructrice. Réalisé par Irwin WINKLER et sorti dans les salles en 1995, le film a très bien vieilli, notamment grâce à une mise en scène enlevée, menée sur un rythme rapide, avec un très bon suspense, bénéficiant de courses poursuites haletantes et de rebondissements en cascade, jusqu'à un final trépidant où tout se recoupe dans les cinq dernières minutes. "L'information c'est le pouvoir", tel pourrait être le mantra du film, tant il s'avère judicieux, encore plus 25 ans après sa production, où tout ce qui est essentiel se retrouve sur le réseau mondial d'internet, devenu indispensable à la vie de tous les jours.Spécialiste en sécurité informatique, Angela Bennett travaille à son domicile, afin d'enlever des virus sur des programmes. Elle reçoit une disquette envoyée par son ami et repère une anomalie, qui l'intrigue fortement. Alors que son ami doit venir la rejoindre, elle apprend sa mort, survenue lors du crash de son avion. Peu après, alors qu'elle est en vacances au Mexique, elle rencontre un séduisant inconnu nommé Jack Devlin. Tout bascule lorsqu'il essaye de la tuer à bord d'un bateau, elle réussit in-extrémis à s'enfuir, mais un accident survient. Se réveillant à l'hôpital, elle se rend compte que le cauchemar ne fait que commencer.En tête d'affiche, on retrouve Sandra BULLOCK, une actrice largement sous-estimée et qui reste pourtant l'une des seules à avoir su parcourir les décennies, en gardant son statut de star et l'engouement qu'elle suscite auprès du public, qui répond quasiment toujours présent. Elle prouve tout son talent, en abordant le registre du thriller, qui lui va comme un gant, qu'elle réitèrera quelques années plus tard, avec le très bon "Calculs meurtriers" en 2002, face à Ryan Gosling, au début de sa carrière. Très crédible, elle réussit à s'imposer dans ce rôle de femme obligée de se battre pour sa survie.Méconnu du grand public, cet excellent thriller surprend et parvient à maintenir l'intérêt de bout en bout, sachant recouper des intrigues n'ayant apparemment aucun rapport entre elles, jusqu'à la conclusion finale, avec juste ce qu'il faut d'adrénaline.

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Lo avevo già in dvd ma il bluray e fantastico la copertina e in tedesco ma il film ha la anche la lingua in italiano.

サンドラブロック主演の、サスペンス・スリラー作品の中では一番好きな作品。公開時話題にならなかったのが不思議。快作です。この様な映画を、適価での提供、どうも有難うございました