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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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Call me what you want, but,
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This review is from: Untraceable Bilingual (DVD)
This film was a complete waste of time. Honestly, I could have been knitting.My friend coaxed me into renting this, and we watched it together. I had seen the previews and I though it was just another thinly-veiled 'Saw'- but she assured me it wasn't. Ha! Wrong. Well, it may not be 'Saw' but believe me, the morbid torture scenes gather the same reaction. The kitten, okay, I could handle that. The man bleeding to death- I cringed a bit. The man stuck in cement, bubbling and burning to death- I threatened leaving. The straw the broke the camel's back was the corrosive-chemical torture. I stood up, left, and watched 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. You could say I'm being unfair, that the movie itself shouldn't be judged by the grotesque torture scenes. Well, I wouldn't know because I couldn't finish the movie... it was pretty boring anyway and they tried to get your attention by making the torture as morbid as possible. It was just an extensive, melodramatic, CSI: New York episode. I wouldn't recommend it even to the people who like violence.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wait a minute...what are you trying to say....are you blaming us for loving violence!?1?,,
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This review is from: Untraceable Bilingual (DVD)
Untraceable seems like the perfect thriller. And it deals with something that not a lot of thrillers have yet dealt with and that's the idea of cyber crimes and a very disturbing cyber-crime at that. Untraceable could have been the perfect set up for a very disturbing, gory thriller with homages to Silence of The Lambs, Saw, and other thrillers. Unfortunately where the idea was great the execution was awful. I think many mistakes were made with this dud and done differently it could have been great. The unfortunate part is that director Gregory Hoblit is not lacking experience. In fact he has directed some fantastic thrillers and should have been able to make this a far more worthwhile cause. Not only that but he has years of experience of TV Cop Drama and yet fails miserably in creating any sort of character arc or real thrill to the story. Its not a complete wash I mean there are moments where you slide forward on the front of your seat as they dangle this murder in front of you and you think "All right, here we go" and then the next scene sends you slouching back into 'this is boring' mode. Its the perfect collection of the wrong elements.One reason being Miss Diane Lane. She's a pretty good actress and I like her in a couple of films though I never been a major fan of hers and always seen her in mostly supporting roles. In here I find her boring and just with no emotion to her and that's exactly what she brings to the table. She leads the film in a boring manner without ever really getting into the case besides showing a lot of perseverance. Colin Hanks, probably the most talented on board, does show a lot of potential but they never give him enough to work with so he mostly is just there. Billy Burke is the hot detective who shows up to help out the single Lane. Burke barely is a blip on the radar other than being some sort of lame romantic contact for Lane that never really pans out. Perhaps given a better, more dynamic script this cast could have pulled together and done something but I think they were an unfortunate ingredient because there was no chemistry no spark, except for maybe a slight connection between Hanks and Lane as partners. Now the real key to this film should have been the murders. The idea was the more people that visited a web site where someone was strung up and dying in a different way, the faster they died. This could have opened up a huge door for being diverse and interesting and they do a half decent job and the murders are grisly and disgusting but everything else around it is so tame and boring that you can easily forget about this film.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really entertaining and a great thriller!,
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This review is from: Untraceable Bilingual (DVD)
A very well done thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. The story contains many original never seen twists and quite believable with its solid technology and background supporting every fact.The cast is outstanding starring Diane Lane as a Federal Agent investigating bad guys on the internet, supported by Bill Burke as her rival investigator and Colin Hanks as a co-worker and good friend. Great performance by all! Although this movie is very entertaining, it's also quite disturbing to see how technology and internet has progressed to such evil.
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