Best-selling author Tom Clancy was executive producer of this made-for- TV spy thriller entitled Netforce was shown on ABC back in 1999.It stars Scott Bakula and Joanna Going together with Xander Berkeley,Anjul Nigam and Judge Reinhold.The supporting cast includes Brian Dennehy, Joanna Going,C.C.H. Pounder and Kris Kristofferson.In the year 2005, the FBI has established a special division called "Netforce".It is responsible to investigate crimes committed using the Internet. Agents Alex Michaels and Steve Day are put on the case when software genius Will Stiles designs a Web browser that allows him to hack into Netforce's computer system and take control of the entire Internet for his own purposes.It is a TV movie that is essentially a cautionary tale of futuristic cyberterrorism. Unfortunately,it is a blunt and somewhat rushed thriller with little time for character or relationship development. What it does offer is a scenario for the prospect of organized crime uniting with computer geeks and malevolent industrialists to sabotage national security through attacks on the Internet.The action bounces around from good guys to sundry bad guys, but there's no question that a creeping paranoia about Net vulnerability and its disastrous implications grows on the viewers especially of what could possibly happen in the future.

I was impressed with the modern gadgets.I think that the premise that in the future the internet will have to be policed is a compelling idea. The movie did lack character development in some areas, but the acting and action was well done. I also thought that Scott Bakula did a really wonderful job, as always.I have never read the Tom Clancy novel, 'Netforce', but perhaps that was for the best. Usually movies made using novels as the basis end up feeling like tin foil. Seeing this movie without having read the novel I felt the story was complete. The storyline was interesting and without holes.

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.

I've read many Netforce books, and watchin the movie after reading them, gives the main characters more depth than portrayed in the movie.The plot has some weak points and sometimes it seems almost rediculous, but in all a very entertaining movie