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Type of bind: Video On Demand
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 9222
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 25, 2008
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'Untraceable' works as a good thriller with some very disturbing revelations about our society. Diane Lane is in good form as a FBI agent who investigates internet crimes. She stumbles across a rather disturbing website that has real time murders, where the more it's viewed the faster the person dies! It's a good mixture of police drama and gore!
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This is a complete fantasy movie. Completely.
Where the hell is a 20-year-old kid going to get chemicals like this and then these elaborate get-ups and devices and then set them up rigged to go off based on how many people are hitting his web site? My god, most boys his age can't even perform proper oral sex let alone mastermind this kind of serial killing. It's just complete fantasy.
The kid from `Running with Scissors' plays the bad guy and wow; fire your agent, please. Diane Lane has no excuse. This is just bad behavior on her part. Bad behavior.
When I die, I will defiantly be talking to Whomever is in charge about getting the time I wasted watching this film added back onto my life as a matter of principle.
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UNTRACEABLE is a thriller that takes our current obsession with the Internet and our hunger for the grisly 'eyewitness' matter found on certain blogsites to an extreme that is at times difficult to watch - but maybe a bit too close to apparent public interest to ignore. Written by Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker and Allison Burnett (a fine novelist whose 'Christopher: A Tale of Seduction' and 'The House Beautiful' continue to stir interest) and directed with unrelenting tension by Gregory Hoblit, the story revolves around a misguided youth, angry over the police and media handling of his father's recent suicide, who draws attention to his serial murders using internet techniques that make the viewers of his repulsive site co-conspirators in his streaming versions of these pertinent deaths.
Diane Lane steps out of her glamour roles to appear as a single mother cyber cop whose intelligence and intuition bring her as close as one can get to the resolution of a crime. She is ably supported by a the underused Billy Burke as a fellow policeman, Mary Beth Hurt as her grounded mother, Colin Hanks as her sidekick cop, and the disturbing character role performance of young Joseph Cross.
Yes, for those who are intimately associated with the intricacies of internet jargon and possibilities there are probably a number of misfires. But for the general audience this little film is well crafted, terrifying in its imaginative story, and acted by a fine ensemble cast. Worth watching if only to see how deadly serious computer 'games' can be. Grady Harp, December 08
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I personally didnt like this movie because it was so depressing (kinda like Saw was but not like Saw). All throughout I thought o man, these people are just screwed and going to die. Which is fine and all, but combined with the monotone nature of the whole film, it created a flatline movie watching experience for me.
Didnt really care if Diane Lane got caught or not or if she died. She was just that boring in the movie. There were good points. Some of the movie was scary. The special effects/makeup guys did REALLY well in the torture scenes! I liked how the movie was shot (no fast moving camera/Cloverfield action so you cant really see what's going on).
Back to bad points, I also didnt like that male cop guy's character - what was he even there for? I swear he didnt do anything important to the plot at all! Was he there for sexual tension with Diane Lane? Umm, it didnt happen. And we all know Diane Lane can bring the sexiness bc she did it with Richard Gere in Unfaithful (Full Screen Edition).
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You know those movies that by the time it's half over it's so bad or silly that you're wishing it was all over? I mean...the simple solution to those kinds of movies is change the channel (or turn the DVD off), right? But something keeps you watching. You've watched it this long; now you've just GOT to see how it ends. In fact, there's a half hour left and you have an appointment, so you set your DVR to record the rest so that you can "see how it ends."
That pretty much sums up my experience with Untraceable. Okay, okay...I guess 2 stars is a little harsh if I was so compelled to see it through. But, man, it was painful at times. Like watching some apple pie Jimmy Olsen look-a-like from Smallville trying to be Jigsaw from Saw...it just didn't work for me.
Basically Jimmy Olsen abducts people then puts them up on an "Untraceable" website where the victims are torturously murdered. The movie is not a whodunit; the movie shows you the killer pretty much right up front. It's more about the brutal killings and Lois...er, I mean...Diane Lane's team of cops tracking the killer. If not for the gruesome killings, this movie might have been better produced as an episode of C.S.I. or insert your favorite crime drama series here.
So my recommendation is to catch Untraceable on cable. Don't buy this or don't waste a spot in your rental queue.
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