recommended

good back-story, and good acting

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

There is a memorable moment early in the film where Jerrod the ex-con hacker explains to his computer geek/security expert Abby that Isidore of Seville was a great scholar and saint in the Christian church of the early Middle Ages. In the modern age, Isidore has come to be associated with the internet, as is evident in this tribute: "We beseech Thee that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter." The preceding words of the patron saint of computers were clearly not heeded by some very bad people who set up poor Abby and her boyfriend Jerrod for hacking into a high tech mainframe to divert $291 million in funds from the firm's customers.Abby takes it upon her broad shoulders to track down the culprits and clear her name. The plot of this film was intricately designed and led to suspenseful action and twists. Some of the details were unclear, such as the identity of Simon Davies. Was he killed in lieu of Jerrod? Or, was he the young man who met Abby in the U-Phoric nightclub, then attempted to murder her? There were moments when the narrative became far too intricate.SPOILER ALERT: One key line to unraveling the mystery is uttered by an apparently very nice man, who says, "Good girl, Abby." The line seems to come out of nowhere as Abby is struggling to learn the truth of her tragic dilemma. She was playing a dangerous game and found support from very few souls in a cutthroat world. But watching over her was the character named Spider, who served in the capacity of St. Isidore to protect the heroine while wading in dangerous waters.

I thought it was lean, suspenseful and had sharply drawn characters. I liked Marjandra as Maria in Roswell- so I'm biased.Can it be that the title 'Web of Lies' in a major film required that this film's rights be bought so it could be buried and not confused with the major theatrical release - and/or a TV series of that name? If so could it be re-released under another title? Could a foreign version be You-tubed like some TV already offered on You-Tube in German? It's worth seeing again... It was online on the Lifetime site very briefly- I never saw it on the air...Reply with any information. I'll be watching...

OK, it's a TV movie, and the locales and accents all but scream "filmed in Canada." Still, I found it remarkably compelling. I was visiting Bulgaria, where it happened to appear on a TV channel after 1 a.m., and although I wasn't intending to watch the whole thing I wound up doing so anyway. So, it kept me involved.As to the "penny-shaving" scheme another commenter mentioned, this goes back even further, because I remember it being the basis of a "Dragnet" episode that must have first aired in the late '50s or early '60s. Again, though, I found the plot as developed in this movie believable. Oldies but goodies, right?

Summary: As someone else noted, I did not like the main character, and I found the overall plot to be too transparent. Frankly, for my tastes, they could just have put Andrew in a room by himself and filmed whatever happened for 90 minutes, and come up with a much better film. He's the only reason I watched it, and the entire 6/10 score is for him. Zero for everything else.Plot: How many times do we have to go back to the tired penny shaving nonsense made popular by Superman III, but also seen in the excellent Office Space, and numerous other films? This has been done to death, and more importantly, it has been done better. Just stop it already.Setting: Again, someone needs to tell Canadian filmmakers that Toronto, Vancouver, and in this case Montreal do not look like NYC. They just don't. Throwing in the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building every once in a while only serves to re-emphasize the difference. If Canada wants to make bad films, why don't we at least make them set in Canada? Why insult our neighbour to the south? If we're proud of this schlock (and somebody is, because our logos are all over the credits) then why isn't it set here? Costuming: I thought whoever decided what financial software people look like has obviously never stepped anywhere near such an outfit. These are very conservative environments. They don't dress like whores, even in the back.Direction/Editing/Writing: The visual aids were ridiculous. Did we really need to see disappearing coasters? Did we really need the sweetener-packet demonstration? I guess so. Because if you buy that you can follow a series of RANDOMLY generated accounts with ANOTHER series of randomly generated accounts, you do need a visual aid. Or maybe it's me. I could swear they told us the accounts were random. If the final account ISN'T random, then it would be easily found by examining the source code to determine how the final account is decided.Computer Effects: Speaking of source code, since when is it executable? When does a comment line suddenly become a command prompt? If you're going to go to the trouble to mock up a computer screen, at least give the audience a little credit.