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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: 6047
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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 Interesting Cyber-Thriller July 18, 2008
Diane Lane stars as FBI Agent Jennifer Marsh who finds herself dealing with the unthinkable. A sadistic killer is torturing his victims and posting it on the internet. The pace at which his victims die depends on the number of visitors to the site.
"Untraceable" starts off slow and dull, but the movie quickens with the same pace at which the victims meet their demise. As original as a story "Untraceable" is, it slightly resembles "Saw" and "Silence of the Lambs." See if you can piece together the puzzle before it unravels. Great cyber-thriller, its worth a watch. 3.5 out of 5.
Good Old Horror Movie July 16, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you don't know the plot, see the Amazon description. The advertising sells it as a thriller, and many of the reviews link it to Saw (definitely horror) and some of the Ashley Judd fare. But this movie is really more thoroughly connected to John Carpenter's Halloween. Watch this, then watch that. For example, the lighting. As with Halloween, most of the action takes places at night, and even the daytime action takes place in heavily overcast daylight, leaving washed out colors, and an almost black-and-white feel to the movie. Second, the music. Anyone who ever watched Halloween remembers the score, and Untraceable's score sounds eerily like it. Then there's the bad guy. With his blank white face, especially in a few scenes, he looks very much like the killer in Halloween. Then there are the lead females. Granted, Jamie Lee Curtis was twenty years old when Halloween was released, and Diane Lane is in her forties. But again, watch this, then watch that. There are a number of scenes in which Diane Lane's character looks much like the Jamie Lee character.
The story moves along quite nicely, with solid performances all around. I'm not enough of a geek to know whether the internet stuff that was being done in the movie can actually be done, but it worked in the context of the movie. The only thing that bothered me was (POSSIBLE SPOILER COMING) Marsh getting into her SUV without checking the back seat after being stalled on the bridge. That seemed implausible.
All in all, a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.
 The Visions Of The Even Darker Side Of The Internet July 12, 2008
When Untraceable was first released in the cinema, I'm sure a lot of people thought that this was just another "gorno" Saw rip off. In some senses it is, but in others it gives us something much more intelligent rather than blood and guts. It portrays the true darker side of the internet for which I fear and know there are websites that thrive of the death and torture of others. I'm not saying these sites kill but they capitalise off the dead and that's just as bad as these people who view and enjoy such content are just as guilty as those doing the killing.
Anyway, enough of the sentimentality I think I need to get around to talking about the movie. The original trailer for this movie tried to make it look like a sick horror movie that puts a twist on the already popular Saw franchise. Let me tell you, it's nothing of the sort. It's a very different breed of torture movie and in a sense, that's a good thing. Diane Lane plays FBI Agent Jennifer Marsh, who works in the internet devision locating and shutting down illegally operating sites. One day while in the office she's given a site to look at, a site which she thinks is just another routine run is something she's never encountered before. The site is called KillWithMe.com and it has real people placed in torturous situations and the more people that visit the site, the quicker the victim dies. The site, even in the watchful eye of the FBI is "Untraceable" and can't even be shut down due to the use of a number of clever internet tactics.
This is quite a slow running movie and is placed more around the characters rather than the torture aspect of the story. This, in my opinion is a very good thing as it allows for character progression and much better story telling. The movie isn't perfect but it gives us something that we can all learn from and that's be cautious of the internet. Sure, there aren't sites out there that kill people... Yet. A line in the movie summed the feeling up perfectly when it was said that soon TV will broadcast live executions and even charge people to watch it. I have no doubt that this is a possibility, just look at the number of movies that focus on blood and guts released in the last 5 years. We're being desensitised to violence, blood and guts and it will come to a point where we come to view another persons death as mere entertainment. Watch this film as it's a worthy 1 and a half hour spent but don't expect anything edge of your seat dramatic.
Untraceable July 8, 2008
Untraceable proves that computers can be our own downfall and that it does stop people from realizing fact from fiction.
 Cool concept, poor execution July 7, 2008
(No pun intended).
The idea was original but that's about as far as it goes. The plot is contrived and the suspense completely forced. Many parts of the movie made no sense and the resolution was predictable and unsatisfying. I thought it especially lame that we are expected to believe that this mentally-ill, 20-something dropout is a computer genius and master-criminal. Good grief...
Watch "Mr. Brooks" instead; it's 50 times better.
So NOT recommended.
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