''The Net 2.0'' is a 2006
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film written and produced by Rob Cowan and directed by
Charles Winkler. It is nominally a sequel to the 1995 film ''
The Net'' directed by his father
Irwin Winkler (who produced this film), but has a separate and unrelated plot. The story concerns a computer systems analyst who finds herself in a web of
identity theft
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, robbery, and murder when she lands in
Turkey
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for a new job.
Plot
The movie opens with a scene of a young woman running from her pursuers in the streets of
Istanbul
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. She is captured and imprisoned, accused of various crimes, and questioned by Dr. Kavak. Desperate to save herself, she starts her story in a series of flashbacks.
The protagonist is Hope Cassidy (played by
Nikki DeLoach), a young computer
systems analyst
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. Looking for excitement in her life, she accepts a well-paying job in
Istanbul
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at Suzer International, where she will begin by securing the Internet network of a Russian company. She tries to convince her boyfriend, James, to go with her, but he is reluctant and she breaks off their relationship. While she is talking to him at a café, her laptop crashes and then reloads, a small incident she ignores.
While flying alone the next day, she checks her bank account online. A friendly stewardess, Roxelena (
Şebnem Dönmez
Şebnem Dönmez (born May 17, 1974 in Salzgitter, West Germany) is a Turkish movie, television series actress and host of television shows.
Originally a model, she debuted in 1992 at the television scene taking part in a motorsports show of TRT, ...
) serves her champagne and gives her a bracelet as a gift. As they talk, we see the money in her accounts drop to zero. When Hope arrives in Istanbul Airport, she is told by the immigration officer that she has a tourist visa, which cannot be used for working purposes, and is advised to go to the American consulate in order to have her soon-expiring passport renewed. Exiting the airport, Hope is approached by a taxi driver who takes her to the Sultanahmet Palace Hotel in Istanbul, where he says the Americans love to stay. Hope gets a room and as soon as she lies down the fire alarm rings, forcing everyone to evacuate. Hope is told that the guests will have to stay out for almost an hour. Hope then meets an American known as Z.Z. Jackson (
Keegan Connor Tracy). They take a walk in the park and come across a merchant selling scarves.
When Hope returns to her hotel room to get her passport, she discovers the new one issued by the American consulate contains the wrong name. It seems that her identity has been stolen. She visits the company that has offered her the job, but finds that Z.Z. is working there under the name Hope Cassidy. She discovers $40,000,000 in her bank account and certain people are out to kill her. All people who knew her are found dead, including the taxi driver whom she met at the airport, who turns out to be a police officer. The police and Dr. Kavak don't believe her explanations, and accuse her of murdering the taxi driver and the woman now impersonating her, Z.Z.. After an incident during Hope's interrogation, she is given an injection which puts her to sleep. She then wakes up in a hotel room with her boyfriend, James, at her side. He tries to reassure her that everything has been sorted out, but something in his speech makes her suspicious.
It turns out that he and Dr. Kavak (
Demet Akbag
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People wi ...
) are behind the conspiracy against her, because they wanted her skills in order to have money embezzled from Ivanakov, a Russian arms dealer. Hope is taken to the bank in order to withdraw the money, but they are confronted by the Russians on their way out. Hope appears to be killed in the conflict but awakens in the ambulance, having staged her own death so that the mafia would stop hunting her. By her side is Roxelena, the stewardess, an Interpol agent who reveals that thanks to the bracelet she gave her in the airplane (which was in fact a homing beacon), her whereabouts were known to the police at all times. She leaves Istanbul with a new identity, enjoying her first class flight back home, in front of her laptop screen that reveals a bank account balance of five million dollars.
Cast
*
Nikki DeLoach as Hope Cassidy
*
Şebnem Dönmez
Şebnem Dönmez (born May 17, 1974 in Salzgitter, West Germany) is a Turkish movie, television series actress and host of television shows.
Originally a model, she debuted in 1992 at the television scene taking part in a motorsports show of TRT, ...
as Roxelena
*
Demet Akbag
Demet is a Turkish feminine given name and is from the Greek goddess Demeter. Other variations of Demet include Demetri, Dem, Demetria, Demetra, Metra and Demi; the common diminutive form of the name is also used as a nickname for Demet.
People wi ...
as Dr. Kavak
*
Keegan Connor Tracy as Z.Z. Jackson
*
Neil Hopkins as James Haven
*
Halit Ergenç
Halit Ergenç (; born 30 April 1970) is a Turkish actor known for his role as Sultan Suleiman I in ''Muhteşem Yüzyıl,'' Onur Aksal in ''Binbir Gece'' and Cevdet in ''Vatanim Sensin''.
Biography
Halit Ergenç was born as the son of Yeşil ...
as Ivanakov
Reception
Brent Simon of
IGN
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rated it 5/10 stars and wrote that because DeLoach does not imbue her character with the same "sympathetic girl-next-door imperilment" that Bullock did, the sequel is pointless. Jeffrey Robinson of
DVD Talk rated it 1.5/5 stars and wrote that it "is more likely to put you to sleep than keep you on the edge of your seat".
See also
*
List of films featuring surveillance
There is a significant body of films that feature surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observa ...
References
External links
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2006 films
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American mystery thriller films
Sony Pictures direct-to-video films
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Films about computing
Films about identity theft
Films about miscarriage of justice
Films about the Internet
Films produced by Irwin Winkler
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2000s English-language films
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