This is one of those movies I watch every so often when I’m bored. It’s been a few years – and man does it not age well! Especially if you know a bit about computers this movie will drive you nuts!

So Sandra Bullock is Angela Bennett, a computer programing guru who works from home and seems to have some sort of issue meeting people face to face and basically lives as a hermit. We see early use of the internet, although I really don’t remember the internet ever being like it is in this. I’m no hacker but much of what we see the characters do computer wise looks largely suspect and it kinda bugged me this time around viewing. And on that same vein, I HATE when characters are typing on a computer and fucking talk about loud what they’re typing! Who does that? Drives me insane!

Anywho, Angela is sent some shitty looking (well, it’s ok for the time I guess) computer game that has, what we’re told, a virus somehow put there by this cyber-terrorist group. My question – why/how did it get there in the first place? Because said group spends the whole movie trying to get the disk back. So this “virus” allows someone with the know-how to access info they shouldn’t be – FBI files, government files, that sort of thing. So they steal Angela’s identity while she’s on vacation and make her life a living hell trying to get back the disk, which is destroyed early on anyway so I don’t know what they wanted from her.

Basically, you have to turn off any knowledge you have of technology at all while watching this or it will bother you. I used to really enjoy it but this viewing drove me nuts.