What a waste of my time!!!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Hope Cassidy (Nikki DeLoach) is a fine computer expert, living in California. Once very shy, Hope has been in love with a gentleman for six beautiful months. But, one day, she has a restlessness and decides it would be good for the couple to move to Istanbul, where she will have a short-term job that pays very well. Boypal doesn't buy it, refuses to go and warns her that its probably a bad choice. Perhaps she should have listened! But, she boards a plane with a first class ticket. The flight crew fawns over her, Hope is even given a lovely bracelet by attendant Roxalena. Yet, her nightmare begins upon landing in the old, old city. To begin, her new boss has not sent anyone to meet her flight, although a kind cab driver takes her under his wing. After checking into her hotel, she finds there are complications with her passport, her bank account, and other pieces of identification. It soon becomes apparent that someone has stolen her identity and given her a new name. Although she starts work for the new company, after only an hour she is ordered out of the building when she can't provide the correct passport. Then, all too soon, a large sum of money comes up missing and is related to Hope's brief time at the new firm. Soon the Russian mafia, Interpol, and lots of others are after Hope, causing her to be on the run throughout the city. She even takes refuge for a brief time in a mosque, where the Whirling Dervishes are twirling! Yet, she is captured. What will her fate be? This is a pretty lame sequel to Sandra Bullock's very fine The Net. DeLoach isn't a bad performer but the material is not so great. There is one implausibility after another, although parts of the film ape the first movie. Hope is questioned for hours, Hope finds the woman who now has her stolen identify. The other cast members are not well known but the Turkish actors are a joy. The biggest asset is definitely the setting, where those of us who will never board a plane get an eyeful of Istanbul. But, this is hardly the best ingredient for a thriller! If you are a huge fan of the original flick or are an expert in computer technology, you might want to sit this one through. Otherwise, there is probably no reason to "net" this movie for an evening's entertainment.

I have only seen a few minutes of the original 1995 "The Net" movie, so I can't fairly say whether this direct to DVD sequel is better or worse than the original. I can only judge it on its own terms, and with that way this ends up being a pretty poor effort. I admit that the Turkish settings occasionally give the movie a fairly colourful backdrop, but all the same more often than not the movie has a really cheap feeling. The movie possibly could have succeeded despite that shortcoming, but the direction and the script work together to sink the entire enterprise. The movie feels sluggish and slow - it takes forever for the movie to really get going, and even when it does, there is no bite to any scene. No tension or excitement, even during the (poorly directed) action sequences. But even worse than the weak direction is the screenplay. Even if you are not an expert on computers and the Internet, there are many scenes with technology that are so obviously improbable that you'll groan out loud. The heroine also commits a lot of non-technological actions that are just as stupid. In the end, the only real interest the movie has apart from its colorful backdrop is bringing up the question as to why it managed to get an "R" rating from the MPAA; the content of the movie deserves a PG-13 at most.

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.