Within the FBI there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) and Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks) have seen it all - until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.
Untraceable fuses Saw with The Net in a perverse yet moralistic story about a psychopath who broadcasts acts of torture over the internet--all to better reveal the twisted underbelly of the American public, who hasten the victims' deaths simply by looking at the website. FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane, her mature-sexy mojo tamped down but still simmering in the corners of her eyes and the nape of her neck) launches a cyberhunt for the killer, only to find herself and her team caught up in his murderous scheme. It's hard to make tapping on a keyboard and staring at a computer screen exciting, but Untraceable does its best by making Marsh and her cybercrimebusting partner (Colin Hanks, King Kong) rattle off cascades of jaunty techno-jargon and do impressive bits of long-distance surveillance. The movie aims for the audience that flocked to see Ashley Judd in thrillers like Kiss the Girls and Double Jeopardy, but it's hard to say if fans of Lane's romantic fare like Under the Tuscan Sun or Must Like Dogs will enjoy the queasy violence. Nonetheless, the cast--including Mary Beth Hurt (The World According to Garp) as Marsh's mother--does a solid job and the movie clips along at an aggressive pace, maintaining tension throughout. --Bret Fetzer
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
EXCELLENT THRILLER WITH A MESSAGE!:
'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!
3 Words- FIRE YOUR AGENT:
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... more info
'Curiosity killed the cat' and others:
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... more info
Diane Lane - unsexiest role ever:
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... more info
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