make for television movie can never escape the feeling they be make for television even if they go to the trouble of stick it in a glossy video box try their best to mold it a a stand alone product it usually doesn not work . once your start watch it will be there the taste and the sight and the scent . ah it a make for television movie . now tom clancy netforce be originally a two part television movie . how little do i know . in fact it all still somewhat a wash to me . let me break it down for you . flash forward to 2005 when the internet have become so powerful and potentially dangerous that the u government set up a division within the fbi entitle netforce to preside and protect over it from the evil people of the world who look to exploit it for their corrupt plan . personally i seriously disbelieve the internet hold the future of the world in it hand and but that doesn not matter because even if it do and the people at netforce couldn not protect it if they have to . upon meet the major character we realize theyre role we have all see before . like the tough male main character who strong and dress well . the rest of the cast fit typical mold a you can guess . i especially liked how a certain character ex wife be a news reporter who at one point become a key piece in the story . everyone be so link together . realistic . no . then again none of the character have any real in depth characterization . theyre just names and face . make thing bad . outside of the main player there just way too many needless minor secondary character be throw around . they add very little if nothing to the story except pad and viewer confusion . it get hard remember twenty character throughout a two and a half hour movie . which far show the weak structure of the story narrative when the movie spend too much time on them . i want to give the movie credit for try an attempt at make u care about those insignificant minor character too and but it even fail at that . we know they will get whacked sooner or later . stick with the cast . i expect more from such an act ensemble . scott bakula get to look smart in suit the key word be look . this project could have benefit from someone with more clout than bakula . he sufficient and but that about it . meanwhile kris kristofferson get the cliché elder role and good ol brian dennehy have be give the plum role a the president chief of staff . that mean him pop up occasionally spew how his as be on the line or the president ped at him . ok. so good actor sometimes appear in bad movie and even good actor can not save a bad script . that a fact . what really bother me be this product have tom clancy name write all over it yet it isn not anywhere near the quality of his past outing like patriot game or clear and present danger . it a real disservice . some of the blame have to fall straight into the writer lap too . i say this because i find it hard to see this a an adaptation project that start well . it be bad from the get go . the story stink . it like amateur hour . especially consider how much they squeeze into too little of a time frame . would more time have have help . i be hesitant to say . even with over two hour they still come back with this slop . frankly 160 minute be a long time . it length be precisely what lead to it fail because there isn not enough depth to sustain a person interest or the holding of disbelief for such an amount of time . with no real depth behind the character and a long and boring and downright confuse story and it all become just scene connect together because people that be in the last scene be in the next . it can not even take itself seriously . like judge reinhold play the evil multi billion dollar software tycoon look to control the world role or how unrealistic and corny it be to have fbi agent point load weapon in the face of innocent cabdriver . it thing like these that help to make netforce such a bore . there absolutely no atmosphere here . honestly for a film deal so heavily with computer and the internet and they sure go skimpy enough on the technical aspect too . i guess they do not want to lose their big view demographic . computer inept coach potato and patriotic tom clancy fan . for the movie it try to be there be very little ( if any ) paranoia and suspense or edge of your seat excitement a so called critic would say . i do not know what you would classify this movie . definitely not action and nowhere near a thriller and so where do that leave u . drama and maybe . i do not know . drama tend to draw upon a variety of emotion from viewer . this one draw nothing but boredom and in the land of movie that not exactly new territory . last thing too . a golden rule of movie . if they do not find a body 95 % of the time that a clear signal the person ain not dead . that a fact .