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| Untraceable | 
 enlarge | Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Diane Lane, Zachary Hoffman, Joseph Cross, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 5902
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 101
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: COLD19134D
UPC: 043396191341
EAN: 0043396191341
ASIN: B00151QYXU
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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 No redeeming value August 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This film is disgusting and has no redeeming value. Its not entertainment and there is nothing to learn here. The acting is mediocre at best and the story doesn't fully make sense and is morally bankrupt. Mostly I dislike this film because it uses for its own attraction value the very thing it proposes to demonize. All involved with this waste of resources should be deeply ashamed that they hadn't used their time, energy and money doing something better for the film viewing public. Skip it.
intriguing premise overcomes indifferent execution August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Writers Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker and Allison Burnett, along with director Gregory Hoblit ("Fracture"), have come up with a humdinger of a premise for their dark thriller "Untraceable." It seems that a techno-savvy serial killer has set up a website where people can go to watch him torture and murder his victims in real time. The kicker is that the degree and speed of the torture are in direct proportion to the number of viewers logged onto the site, thus making the general public morally complicit in the crimes. The always superb Diane Lane really classes up the joint playing a cyber-cop who is not only hot on the trail of the killer, but might actually be one of his intended targets as well.
The idea for "Untraceable" is probably better than the movie itself, yet, despite its weaknesses, this is a reasonably engrossing and gripping thriller, provided one can stomach the sleaziness of the material and the too-clever-by-half "ironic" ending (the movie is at least more believable in its approach than the similarly-themed "The Condemned"). "Untraceable" certainly has some depressing things to say about our natural human propensity for sadism and voyeurism, and it raises the terrifying prospect that we will now be able to use modern technology as a means of satisfying our bloodlust with total impunity. The movie might have had a sharper moral and ethical edge to it had it featured some common-folk characters debating within and amongst themselves whether or not to log onto the site, knowing that, by doing so, they would be contributing to the death of a fellow human being. But because the writers fail to incorporate such scenes into the screenplay, the premise never gets much beyond the "intriguing idea" stage. Still, the concept is compelling enough on its own to keep "Untraceable" a few steps ahead of the psycho-thriller pack.
 It is bad... July 26, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie was bad and the story line was bad. Unfortunately the couple of scene was horrible. Anyway this movie was out of joy. It's complicated.
the story was too short. It isn't cool movie.
The Premise was good and offered some food for thought! July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Untraceable" is about Special Agent Jennifer Marsh, who is assigned to the Cybercrime Task Force Unit of the FBI. While monitoring hackers and other cyber crimes, she stumbles across a website that invites people to "killwithme". Therefore as the death count rises, so does the boldness of his actions and the motive for his senseless killings. What I found interesting about the movie was the entire premise of "if given a chance, would you watch, even if it meant someone would die, events unfolding on-line"? Would knowing that your mere actions would result in someone's death, stop you from watching or prevent you from clicking "enter" with your mouse? Maybe I analyzed it all too much, but based on what I know of our society and its need to know and my belief that most people are voyeurs, I think that people would tune in. Think about it, we live in a world of technology (blackberries, palms and PDAs) and reality television. How many people dial up to watch the ridiculous or simply watch things that they know are private? How many people dial up to watch Big Brother After Hours? Afterall, we live in a society where we want to view sex and or violence, even if on some level we know it isn't right, but we are curious. So hopefully that kind of explains why I gave this movie "3*s" because underneath it all, I think it offered food for thought.
 Good, but could have been better July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gripping no doubt but flaws and absurd incidents mar this film. The ending of the film seemed a bit too abrupt. In the scene where Diane's car is hacked it was only obvious that something sinister was going to happen. When Diane returns to her car she inspects it very carelessly. In fact she had just seen a human figure near her vehicle. This scene was poorly done. After losing her close associate to the killer, detective Box visits her and buys her dinner. After a while the next scene shows Diane getting out of the bed with Box sleeping in the bed beside her. Without any romance this scene was absurd and was totally unnecessary. Box sleeping in a nearby couch would have made a very big difference instead.
The good points are Diane Lane's good acting and the plot. In today's world of easy to access information you get the feeling of how internet viewers are no different than the spectators of the Colosseium. At least the spectators of the Coliseum weren't voyeurs. The hackers and viewers of the internet and how we have sleuths people tracking these hackers and even outsmarting them was well done. Christopher Young's good background music is also worth mentioning.
And finally don't forget to check out the killer's site in your web browser. You will be pleasantly surprised.
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