I love this movie so much

the audience applauded

Simply Perfect

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Obviously creators of the movie couldn't follow the plot of the book exactly because of the way the book leaves you hanging on certain sub-plots, because they continue in the following books. However they changed it way too much! Relationships between characters change, character names change, and the thing that p*ssed me off the most was Alex Michaels' character. Don't get me wrong, Scott Bakula does an awesome job playing the role but the movie portrays Michaels and being a more experienced fearless soldier in the field than John Howard, which changes the entire personality of the character. But all in all it was an entertaining couple of hours with big names, good acting, and decent effects.

The story started off well enough, but after just a bit, the FBI's NetForce started looking like a bunch of nerds playing in cyber-space. Trying to bust someone in a VR environment just wouldn't work. They TOLD the guy, and he just logged off! <sighs> Oh, well... then they went on to imply that the Internet was actually controllable... and could be shut off by someone attacking hardlines, satellites, or fiber optic lines... as if the users could actually tell what medium was being used for the transmission of their signals. <shakes his head> It could have been better, but I couldn't rate it too low, after all, it DID have a very good twist at the end (no spoiler here!), but even that part wasn't played out very well.I hope to see more like it (but with better technical advice/support).

This movie got a lot of bad reviews, especially from so-called "techies". I think the fact that the movie used ridiculusly wrong terms for it's technical effects had a lot to do with it's low reception. Substitute "thingie" for every reference to "website" and so on, and it won't be very painful at all.The plot was all right, I liked the allusion to the Windows lawsuit and the treatment of the real danger of homogenization of the 'net. At 2 hours 40 minutes, it was way too long, though.All in all, it was bearable. 5 out of 10.

I read the book long before I heard about the movie, and given past history with books being translated into movies, I expected NetForce to suck but hoped it didn't. Well, it sucks big time. I was hoping for something remotely close to the book, which it is... for about 10 minutes or so, until Steve Day is assassinated. Then, after that, it bears no resemblance to the book. I was disappointed, but based on my expectations, not THAT disappointed. 3 out of 10