Assassins with Sly Stallone and Antonio Banderas with Julianne Moore as the cyberspatial interest. This may be the film derived in part from some writer-type's conversation with our own Tim May. Sly and Antonio get their contracts via computer from an anonymous source. They favor Powerbooks. The source types on the tops of the screens they type on the bottom. The Powerbooks must have built in wireless modems because they are pretty casual about firing them up wherever they happen to be. Julianne is cute. Apparently being a net security expert/hacker is seen as women's work in Hollywood with Sandra in the Net and what's her name in Hackers. Also this sort of life interferes with your social contacts because both Sandra and Julianne seem lonely. Julianne likes cats. The screens look fake (like most Hollywood computer screens). There is minor mention of encryption. Julianne is a "ghost" (self-described) with no SS# or DL. She does have a car and apartment, however. As always in these films, much of the action is motivated by a single high-density floppy. It's amazing the amount of stuff they can get on those disks. Most of these character's problems could be solved if they would simply transfer this info over the nets without having to meet in person. They could also encrypt disks much more than they choose to. Coincidentally, I saw both The Net and Hackers this weekend. It is hard to decide which is the "best." Assassins is slick and Antonio makes a great psycho. [Note to Sly --- Many of your problems as a professional assassin could be solved by a few finishing shots to the head. --- I thought they taught that on the first day in assassin's school.] I suppose I liked Assassins best although Puerto Rico makes a poor stand-in for an island tax haven. I like English accents on my tax haven bankers. DCF "Who is ready to act as an advisor for a small fee to anyone out there who wants to do a real net film."