Amy Adler 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.

MBunge Half basic cable thriller, half tourism video from the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, The Net 2.0 is yet another entry into that modern Hollywood genre - The Fraudulent Sequel.Shamelessly trading on the mediocre name of a Sandra Bullock vehicle, this film tells the story of another young woman who has her identity erased…though this time it is mostly done WITHOUT computers. Which, of course, means it doesn't really have much to do with the first movie, but that's what makes this a bait-and-switch fraudulent sequel. This was just a script somebody cobbled together and tried to pass off as having some connection to The Net, hoping to rack up a few extra rentals as it went straight to DVD.The first thing to point out about The Net 2.0 is that it isn't a direct-to-DVD production. That may be how it ended up, but this was originally intended to be a basic cable movie. Which means there's no profanity, no nudity and the violence is only slightly worse than what you'd see in an average episode of Murder She Wrote. So, this thing doesn't even offer the cheap, trashy thrills of the average direct-to-DVD clunker.The plot concerns Hope Cassidy (Nikki DeLoach), a computer expert who starts off the story being a complete bitch to her boyfriend James (Neil Hopkins) because he doesn't want to uproot his entire life and move with her to Istanbul for her new job. She flies over there and blah, blah, blah. Her identity is stolen, millions of dollars go missing, she's on the run from the cops and the Russian mob before she turns the tables on the people really responsible for everything and, believe me, none of that is as interesting and exciting as it may sound. I just can't bring myself to regurgitate the shallow and simplistic events of this movie as they unfolded.None of these actors can really act. The writer can't really write. The director can't really direct. The only thing noteworthy about The Net 2.0 is that a great deal of it is literally filmed like a travelogue of the sights and sounds of modern Istanbul, a though it was funded with a Turkish tourism grant.I suppose I have to admit that watching this movie never makes you want to stick your head in a vise and tighten it until you hear something crack. The Net 2.0 isn't aggressively bad. It is a waste of time on a transcendental level. Save yourself from regret and don't watch it.

abhaagarwal I don't see why is the movie being called slow for any reason. The plot line does take it's base from the first movie, but this movie, i.e. 2.0 is totally different from the first one. Heck, Bullock's character doesn't face language issues.I agree that the movie has some glitches, but overall, I think the movie is even better than the first version. If I have to say, the first movie too had an excellent plot, but it was overshadowed by Sandra Bullock herself. And in that movie, you already knew the person behind the Net Trap.This movie however maintains it's suspense. Without divulging any more, I'll just say that the movie is a must watch....

Laurentiu Stan 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.