***SPOILERS*** Quick paced thriller involving computer analyst Angela Bennett, Sandra Bullock, who unknowingly got her hands on this mysterious floppy disk that she was testing for a computer virus. The disk's information can put an end to the dreams of multi-billionaire founder of the "Gatekeeper Security System" Jeff Grege, Gerald Berns.
Grege has been trying to get the US Defense Department-the Pentagon-to install his system but Defense Secretary Michael Bergstrom, Ken Howard, was dead set against it. With Grege using the "Gatekeeper" to hack into Bergstrom's medical records it falsified them stating that he's suffering from an advance and fatal case of AIDS! This had Bergstrom, whom were told was homophobic, in knowing that he doesn't have long to live go out into a nearby D.C park and blow his brains out. With Bergstrom's replacement Calvin Shoemaker now running the show-Defense Department-the "Gatekeeper" is a given but as usual-in computer science- there's a glitz: The geeky and shut-in computer analyst Angela Bennett!
Actually Angela got the explosive, that revealed the true nature of the "Gatekeeper System", disk from her on-line contact, and fellow computer nerd, Dale Hessman, Ray McKinnon. It was Dale's misfortune to get himself killed in a suspicious plane crash just before he was to get the disk-from Angela-back. With her now in possession of the "Gatekeeper" disk Angela's life was turned into a living hell for knowing its contents. On the run from the police and hit-man Jack Devlin, Jeremy Northam, who's working for the "Gatekeeper Project" Angela in her choosing to be locked up in her her home, as a computer expert, for some six years has no one who can vouch for her identity as Angela Bennett!
Having all her personal belongings stolen-by Devlin-on a trip to Mexico,her first vacation in six years, Angela has been given the bogus identity, by those out to get her, of Ruth Marx a convicted felon! With the police as well as hit-man Devlin on her tail Angela has to prove who she is and at the same time convince the authorities, both federal as well as sate, what Jeff Grege is planning to do. Disrupt the entire US economic and transportation systems with his "Gatekeeper Project" and at the same time prevent, by having it installed in the Pentagon, his evil plan from being uncovered!
****SPOILERS**** The movie "The Net" was made in early 1995 years before the internet became known, as well as available, to most of those watching it at the time of its release. Despite its very confusing storyline and almost inconceivable climax with the release, by Angela, of a super computer virus the film is still fascinating, now with the internet a major factor in everyone's lives, to watch. We can see how ahead of its time "The Net" was in bringing out back then in 1995 which was considered science fiction to what became, engineered computer economic crimes and identity theft, science fact just a few years later!
Grege has been trying to get the US Defense Department-the Pentagon-to install his system but Defense Secretary Michael Bergstrom, Ken Howard, was dead set against it. With Grege using the "Gatekeeper" to hack into Bergstrom's medical records it falsified them stating that he's suffering from an advance and fatal case of AIDS! This had Bergstrom, whom were told was homophobic, in knowing that he doesn't have long to live go out into a nearby D.C park and blow his brains out. With Bergstrom's replacement Calvin Shoemaker now running the show-Defense Department-the "Gatekeeper" is a given but as usual-in computer science- there's a glitz: The geeky and shut-in computer analyst Angela Bennett!
Actually Angela got the explosive, that revealed the true nature of the "Gatekeeper System", disk from her on-line contact, and fellow computer nerd, Dale Hessman, Ray McKinnon. It was Dale's misfortune to get himself killed in a suspicious plane crash just before he was to get the disk-from Angela-back. With her now in possession of the "Gatekeeper" disk Angela's life was turned into a living hell for knowing its contents. On the run from the police and hit-man Jack Devlin, Jeremy Northam, who's working for the "Gatekeeper Project" Angela in her choosing to be locked up in her her home, as a computer expert, for some six years has no one who can vouch for her identity as Angela Bennett!
Having all her personal belongings stolen-by Devlin-on a trip to Mexico,her first vacation in six years, Angela has been given the bogus identity, by those out to get her, of Ruth Marx a convicted felon! With the police as well as hit-man Devlin on her tail Angela has to prove who she is and at the same time convince the authorities, both federal as well as sate, what Jeff Grege is planning to do. Disrupt the entire US economic and transportation systems with his "Gatekeeper Project" and at the same time prevent, by having it installed in the Pentagon, his evil plan from being uncovered!
****SPOILERS**** The movie "The Net" was made in early 1995 years before the internet became known, as well as available, to most of those watching it at the time of its release. Despite its very confusing storyline and almost inconceivable climax with the release, by Angela, of a super computer virus the film is still fascinating, now with the internet a major factor in everyone's lives, to watch. We can see how ahead of its time "The Net" was in bringing out back then in 1995 which was considered science fiction to what became, engineered computer economic crimes and identity theft, science fact just a few years later!