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.

accidentally, I watched this movie, it was shown at night in German TV, and I'm pretty sure, you simply watched the movie under wrong circumstances ... it seems to be the sequel of "the Net", but after watching it, I'm very sure, it wasn't planned to be ... look at the acting, the directing, the camera, the casting itself, look at it a bit more closely, and you will come to one conclusion: this was the pilot of a planned TV series, not a real sequel ... the whole plot / script shows it quite clear, they try to introduce the main character within the first minutes, including a plot - which always is a bit hard for the first episode, mostly doesn't work out very well, however, there are often problems, especially in structure, within the first episode of a new series ... seemingly planned to somewhat fill the hole "Alias" left ...I'm pretty sure, the producers followed the opinion of an test audience and simply said "no", so, the pilot, planned as 2 x 45 minute episodes, was re-edited to something like a "movie", and then sold worldwide for a good price, eg to Germany through something like a joint-venture-package, quite often taking place within other products, lets say a prime time series, plus some "I was a pilot" - movies - this time one which tried to be something like "Alias" - a series which was shown at the same TV station here in old Germany, which now showed "Net 2.0" ... I don't think this is a coincidence, it's something like a giveaway, not a bad thing, but for me its simply quite obvious, its a pilot, not really good, able covering quite much with fast cuts / re-editing (but who doesn't), so nowadays quite normal, just rejected ...

OK this film (tape?) has a fair few flaws, but not really that many, at least compared with The Net 1. As it mentions in the end credits, the movie was shot entirely on HD Video, something we're going to see a lot more of, and this must have a very significant impact on production costs.Nevertheless, I can forgive it most of its faults except one. The laughably unrealistic portrayal of computer screens. Why do all Hollywood directors think that computer screens need to have two-inch-high fonts and animated doohickeys all over the place? This sort of movie is inevitably going to be watched by dweebs all over the planet who simply will not put up with this sort of thing.Takedown, I think, was the only film I've ever seen which had believable computer screens. Given the subject matter, just as well. So why not this one? There is simply no excuse. There are just too many computer-literate ppl out there now, and they all switch off as soon as they spot rubbish like that. It ruins the whole experience. Truly. If not for that, I would have given it an 8 or 9.

The chick playing the main character is no Angela Bennett, I'll give you that (this is not a spoiler :D), but she isn't bad looking. She looks different throughout the movie, but all in all she isn't very convincing. At first I thought that it's gonna be an action movie with complex intrigue and stuff in exotic countries but the downside was that they had 90% Turkish actors, the English actors kid of underground, therefore...B movie (or maybe C?); American producer throwing 15k $ (not Turkish lira)on a documentary action feature with an American confused tour guide.If it's pouring and the cable is out...see it ...ON VIDEO.