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Net Games (2003) is a English movie. Andrew Van Slee has directed this movie. C. Thomas Howell,Lala Sloatman,Sam Ball,Monique Demers are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2003. Net Games (2003) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
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Net Games (2003) Reviews
I Wanna Play!
Net Games has to be seen to be believed. It's truly a miracle that a thriller this ludicrous ever saw the light of day. But I thank god that it did, because I enjoyed every ridiculous minute of this hunk of junk and recommend it highly to my fellow crap connoisseurs! The main reason why I hired Net Games was C. Thomas Howell, in my mind one of the most underrated actors working today. The man has an uncanny knack of giving depth to even the most poorly written character and never fails to lift a movie with his performance. In this film Mr Howell plays Adam, a devoted but horny husband who has not had relations with his wife for 8 months. When Adam's wife goes on a trip to confront the man who raped her (an equally turgid sub-plot), Adam takes some advice from his dodgy friend Ray and visits an internet chat room. This is when this film really hits its stride. Adam meets Angel, a demented woman who apparently spends her days masturbating in front of her computer screen. I'm sure she's not alone in that pursuit, but I doubt that many other people go to the effort of wearing sexy lingerie, full make-up and a ridiculous drag queen wig while in the privacy of their own home - let alone bother getting nasty with ice cubes. Angel is one of the most absurd film characters I have seen in a long time. When not having hilariously unarousing cyber-sex, Angel scrubs herself clean and rolls around on the kitchen floor, screaming incoherently. In between all this, Angel occasionally finds the time to stalk and kill some of her online sex friends in a way that pays homage (ie. shamelessly rips off) to Sharon Stone's character in Basic Instinct. Surely enough, Angel goes psycho on Adam after he is stupid enough to give this obvious loon his home phone number. The film rapidly descends into a non-sensical mess - Adam manages to redefine the term "bumbling idiot", his wife turns into Rambo and Angel continues to sit at home, masturbating and plotting murders. There came a point when I just decided to go along for the ride and enjoy this film for the stinker it is. C. Thomas Howell deserves an Oscar for keeping a straight face during this trash epic. Net Games is a worthy addition to any so-bad-it's-good collection!
Net Games: Generic cyber thriller
Going by quite a few different names Net Games is a cyber thriller crossed with a fatal attraction-esque plot. It tells the story of a man whose sex life has gone off the rails after the rape of his wife. Unwilling to wait he turns to an online sex site and initially engages in little more than risque chat. But this is a movie so of course things escalate and before he knows it the mysterious girl on the other side of the screen has him by the short and curlys through a series of underhanded tactics and twisted games. Starring b-movie legend C Thomas Howell, Star Treks own Marina Sirtis and a cameo appearance by Ed Begley Jr this thriller takes concepts froms everal other titles, blends them together and produces a rather trite little effort. These movies immediatly suffers in my eyes due to the lack of a protagonist to care about. I'm sure plenty will argue that what he did was harmless but I personally disagree and question why I was supposed to be rooting for him and more importantly why yet another poor animal had to suffer for dumb "Heroes" sins. I've seen much worse don't get me wrong, but the film is simply devoid of originality, you will predict everything coming and the rushed finale makes me question the writers place in the industry. The Good: Fairly well constructed The Bad: Weirdly uncomfortable viewing in places Howell isn't leading man material Begley was wasted Things I Learnt From This Movie: The movie makes cyber sex look a lot more exciting than it really is
Do You Want to Play a Game?
The successful publicist Adam Vance (C. Thomas Howell) of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance (Monique Demers) was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters (Samuel Ball) suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel (Lala Sloatman), a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer. "Net Games" has a shallow and flawed screenplay, with some erotic moments and many ridiculous scenes. Adam Vance is successful in his career and totally naive in Internet, giving his picture and phone number to a complete stranger. The meeting of his wife with her rapist is shameful, and I have never heard about this type of shock treatment for victims of rape. Jennifer is not only healed but shifts her character from a frigid and insecure woman to a hot bitch and brave female version of Rambo. The viewer never sees the face of Angel, but the therapist Dr. Klein (Joan Van Ark), Detective Sandra Simmonds (Maeve Quinlan) and even Jennifer's friend Peg Wallace (Vanessa Evigan) have a great resemblance with her, and the ambiguous sentence of Sandra in the end ("I know how he plays") is intended to confuse the viewer. There is no explanation for the stupid attitudes of Adam hiding a body with his mate or how his pictures in front of the computer and with the wife of his boss were taken. However, there are some entertaining moments in this forgettable movie, therefore my vote is five. Title (Brazil): ".Com Para Matar" (".Com to Kill")
Glorious Trash
You know when you're in the right mood and you catch a bad movie and have a great time? I was lucky enough to catch this movie at just such a time. This movie has logical flaws up the wazoo. There are so many ludicrous things to keep your mind active. Litte things like: The woman is completely bonkers, yet seems to live in a real nice house, has a fancy computer setup with 3 monitors but appears to have no job. She takes pictures of things she couldn't photograph. And apparently is a technical wizard. And the movie never bothers to explain anything. Howell's beautiful wife goes through some great emotional journey. One minute she's leaving her husband, the next minute she's screwing him and turning vigilante. And so few films give us 'chick fights to the death.' Fantastic. As others have pointed out, the movie is spawning with red herrings. Pretty much every woman except Howell's wife is a blonde so everyone is a suspect. SEMI BIG SPOILER- Of course the movie cleverly keeps the killers face hidden until the finale so when the reveal happens... the viewer can revel in the surprise that they still don't know who the heck she is! That's some fine directing! Even at the closing credits, there was an additional moment of pure cheese that had me giggling. This movie is not good by any stretch of the imagination. It makes no sense. Logic flaws left and right. Inexplicable characters and character choices. But if you can laugh at this stuff, you just might have a good time.
How did this movie ever get made?
A young married man with a wife who is a recent, traumatized rape victim, turns to a cyber-sex Internet site at the suggestion of a friend. He quickly gets ensnared into a conversation/sex session with Angel. Angel is a nut case. The wife, along with her therapist, goes to visit her rapist in prison to bring closure. The confrontation is brief and really pretty ridiculous. The wife returns home ready to hop into bed, having gotten over her post-traumatic stress by yelling some obscenities at the rapist. Meanwhile, our hero is being stalked by Angel after he tries to break off the relationship. She has called him at home, his office, sent pictures. There is no explanation for who took the pictures; no explanation as to why this seemingly intelligent man would fall for this. He agrees to meet with Angel and finds a dead body. He and his friend Ray bury the body, assuming it is Angel. No explanation is given as to who might have killed her or why. As a red herring, perhaps, the police detective in this case is blonde and attractive and looks remarkably like Angel. And so does the wife's therapist. The sex is monotonous and looks like they shot two or three scenes to be used over and over. Acting is okay. Production values okay. The plot is stupid. Ed Begley Jr, in a small part, must have been desperate for the money.