Lack of good storyline.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

There is a memorable moment early in the film where Jerrod the ex-con hacker explains to his computer geek/security expert Abby that Isidore of Seville was a great scholar and saint in the Christian church of the early Middle Ages. In the modern age, Isidore has come to be associated with the internet, as is evident in this tribute: "We beseech Thee that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter." The preceding words of the patron saint of computers were clearly not heeded by some very bad people who set up poor Abby and her boyfriend Jerrod for hacking into a high tech mainframe to divert $291 million in funds from the firm's customers.Abby takes it upon her broad shoulders to track down the culprits and clear her name. The plot of this film was intricately designed and led to suspenseful action and twists. Some of the details were unclear, such as the identity of Simon Davies. Was he killed in lieu of Jerrod? Or, was he the young man who met Abby in the U-Phoric nightclub, then attempted to murder her? There were moments when the narrative became far too intricate.SPOILER ALERT: One key line to unraveling the mystery is uttered by an apparently very nice man, who says, "Good girl, Abby." The line seems to come out of nowhere as Abby is struggling to learn the truth of her tragic dilemma. She was playing a dangerous game and found support from very few souls in a cutthroat world. But watching over her was the character named Spider, who served in the capacity of St. Isidore to protect the heroine while wading in dangerous waters.

I thought it was lean, suspenseful and had sharply drawn characters. I liked Marjandra as Maria in Roswell- so I'm biased.Can it be that the title 'Web of Lies' in a major film required that this film's rights be bought so it could be buried and not confused with the major theatrical release - and/or a TV series of that name? If so could it be re-released under another title? Could a foreign version be You-tubed like some TV already offered on You-Tube in German? It's worth seeing again... It was online on the Lifetime site very briefly- I never saw it on the air...Reply with any information. I'll be watching...

****SPOILERS**** Overly complicated film that you need a computer hacking manual in order to follow that has to do with something about a 300 million dollar, or 291 million to be exact, heist of a top computer security firm that's been hacked into and is being slowly drained of it's clients, big time bankers, secured assets.The person involved pretty computer whiz Abby Turner, Majandra Delfino, ends up holding the bag, or bag money, in her having 10 million dollars deposited into a bank account that she has no idea about. This is to make it look like she's the one doing all the hacking and profiting from it. Still whoever did it seemed to have overlooked the fact that Abby, in being totally ignorant of his or her plans, didn't skip town and took off with the cash putting it into an off shore bank account. That would have been the both smart and logical thing for her to do if in fact she was guilty of the crime that she's now being framed with!It's Abby's boyfriend computer geek Josh Lawson, Andy L. Walker, who really starts the ball rolling by getting himself killed when he turns on the ignition to his car outside Abby's loft apartment. With the unexpected arrival of the FBI in the person of Agents Walcox & Anderson, Michael Mardo & Tera Nicodemo, at her place of work Custodious Securities it become evident that Josh has been hacking into her and Custodious computer systems and thus stealing, with the what seemed like un-hackable secret code,it's clients bank accounts.The movie gets more complicated as it goes alone with Abby now on the run from the law in trying to clear herself in a crime, computer hacking, that she didn't commit. ***SPOILER***What complicates things even more is that the what was thought to be Abby's dead boyfriend Josh suddenly comes back from the dead, we really never saw him get killed, to help Abby out in exonerating herself from a crime that he,in trying to save Abby's life, actually got her involved in!***SPOILER*** The big surprise ending, there's in fact two of them, was no big surprise at all in who was behind all this computer craziness and it had to do with persons very close to both Abby and her new found friend girl computer geek Spider, Kamiehtiio Horn, who keyed her into what was happening. Spider was unknowingly working with the person who planned to frame Abby in this half-baked scheme who later ended up getting it,shot three times, when that person's other partner in crime got a bit too greedy and decided to get it, the 291 hacked and stolen million dollars, all from himself! That all ended up being a pipe dream for him in Abby tying all the loose ends,the back forth and sideways computer movements into dummy bank accounts, together that in the end ended up hanging him!

Web of Lies is definitely a film worth watching, i found it interesting, it had good twists and a good ending. After watching it I decided to see if I could buy it on DVD, but after searching a number of websites I came up empty, and then i read a review of Web of Lies on here, and it appears it is just a TV movie. I think a film as good as this should be out on DVD, I would definitely buy it and recommend it to people who like films like this one. I'm disappointed that I can't get it on DVD, but if it ever does come out on DVD, i'll keep an eye out for it and buy it as soon as I get the chance. If anybody knows if or when it will be out, please let me know, I don't want a good film to be restricted to the TV. It's a film worth keeping for years.Marty G