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Netforce, a United States federal agency, tracks major hacking activities on the internet that point toward major criminal activities.

Definitely a TV-movie. Mediocre, and only moderately interesting. Definitely missing key elements from the also-boring book.

• Inspired by Net Force – (1998 book), by Tom Clancy

Maximum Force

• 4:00 — God that title-beeping is annoying as fuck.
• 6:00 — Starsky & Hutch – (1975 show)
• 9:00 — DOD = United States Department of Defense
• 11:30 — Gulf War
• 13:15 — Oh god, is that title-beeping going to be throughout this movie?
• 15:45 — What cabbie would refuse an extended trip?
• 16:15 — The cabbie was threatened, so wouldn’t he try to drive off?
• 17:45 — Wow, this doesn’t do the book justice. It’s coming off as a standard low-budget Scott Bakula flick.
• 18:30 — That’s Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who I know from here and there, primarily from Rising Sun – (1993 movie).
• 29:30 — Las Vegas – Nevada – United States
• 31:30 — FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 36:30 — Drew Barrymore
• 44:30 — No, it’s not that she’s scary, it’s that “strong women”, are just like “weak women”, and want men who are ahead of them. Her co-workers aren’t scared of her, they’re not good enough for her.
• 50:00 — Maryland – United States
• 54:30 — Star Wars 7.
• 57:30 — Lincoln Memorial
• 1:01:30 — This isn’t a very maximum-security place.
• 1:08:15 — That arcade game is Maximum Force (Atari)
  

  Maximum Force

• 1:14:15 —

  • Grand Wizard
  • KKK = Ku Klux Klan
  • AME = African Methodist Episcopal Church

• 1:15:30 —

  • The Turner Diaries – (1978 book), by William Luther Pierce (as Andrew Macdonald)
  • Timothy McVeigh
  • Oklahoma City bombing

• 1:22:15 — This Janice browser bundling is a play off of Microsoft Corp v Commission, linking the owner with Bill Gates.

  • I want to liken the browser thing with the antitrust case where Microsoft was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, but that was 2009 (this movie is 1999). I do know that way back then, there was a lot of grumbling about Internet Explorer. It’s reasonable it wasn’t properly brought to the courts for ten years and this was indeed the inspiration for this bit in the movie.
• 1:40:45 — SCSI
• 1:45:00 — Why would the guy stay in that building? He’s smart enough to know he’s not secure.

• 1:50:15 —

  • 5.56×45mm NATO (NATO)
  • No, an un-fired round would not be the cause of that stain.
  • 1:51:00 — Oh, that there is a casing, so it was fired.

• 2:03:00 — IRA = Irish Republican Army

  • The “small dog” is a reference to the book.

• 2:05:00 — Shark fin soup