Pokes fun of a particularly dark hue at those emotionally stunted netheads who are enjoying a Second Life when they haven't even had a first one.

Enjoyable thriller, enlivened by a decent script, impressive direction and strong performances from Diane Lane and Colin Hanks.

Even though this film strains to be another Silence of the Lambs (tormented heroine chases nasty killer), it's still oddly involving.

Creepy, suspenseful cyber-thriller about downloading death, hacker homicide, and a baby-faced computer geek wielding a mouse as a deadly weapon.

[T]he honkingly stupid script is the kind that inspires Mystery Science Theater call-and-response.

What is ultimately more disturbing than the premise itself is the way director Gregory Hoblit injects a sensational voyeuristic element to the proceedings. I felt as though I needed a good wash after watching.

Even if you take the film's moral lesson at face value, the overkill is discouraging, and not very instructive.

a... po-faced affair, pretending to be above all the sensationalism and depravity that it exploits, as though Hoblit and co. are somehow themselves immune from their killer's obsession with viewing figures.