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Tarfumes.com - Untraceable
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Starring: Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt
Directed By: Gregory Hoblit
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Video On Demand
Release Date: 2008-10-14
Running Time: 102
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-01-25
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Summary: Serial Killer Thriller
Comment: "Untraceable," starring Diane Lane as Jennifer Marsh, head of the FBI Portland Cyber Crimes unit, uses as background gruesome, horrifically twisted crimes. This casts a dark cloud of foreboding over the proceedings.
A new website, KillWithMe.com, pops up with real images of a cat innocently lapping up milk from a saucer. The computer hacker has arranged that, the more people hit the website, the faster the cat will be killed through a contraption he's hooked up. Soon after, the stakes are raised when a human being appears on the website, his destiny linked to the number of curiosity seekers who tune in to watch. Teamed with local Portland police Detective Eric Box (Billy Burke), Jennifer races to close down the website and find the hacker/killer.
Despite all-out efforts on the part of the FBI and local police, the killer appears unstoppable. What's more, he seems to enjoy baffling the authorities while brazenly continuing his bizarre program of murder.
"Untraceable" is competently made and benefits from a solid, believable performance by Lane, a good supporting cast, and a series of disturbing set pieces depicting the assorted ways in which the killer lays the groundwork for his victims' demise. Because the deaths are keyed to hits by computer users, the victims are slowly tortured to death.
About halfway through the movie, however, the turf becomes all too familiar. As in countless thrillers before it, "Untraceable" switches gears into formula, making its resolution both predictable and disappointing.
Lane gives her character authority and intelligence. An early scene shows how effectively she does her job. When she is thoroughly perplexed and rendered helpless in the wake of this new, horrrifying crime, we see her frustration and determination to shut down the website and nail the perpetrator. So it's a game of wits, really, between Jennifer and the killer, whose identity is not revealed until halfway through the movie. Both are bright, both have the ability to checkmate the other's moves, and both are motivated to prevail.
Colin Hanks (Tom's son) plays Jennifer's cyber crimes partner, Griffin Dowd, whose job always seems to interfere with his attempts to meet interesting, eligible women. This is sort of a running gag in a film that is otherwise deadly serious in tone. Burke's Detective Box is the typical movie cop -- strong, resourceful, efficient, resolved, yet impotent because he's up against something he's never encountered before.
Compared to such recent movies as the "Saw" and "Hostel" franchises, "Untraceable" is fairly tame. It uses its grisly images as integral plot points, not as the centerpiece and raison d'etre. The images are disturbing, but without them, the movie would be just another TV flick. Screen violence is not always reprehensible. If handled with tact, it can underscore drama and add tremendous tension.
Rated R for strong images of violence and language, "Untraceable" is a well made thriller. Elevated by the presence of Diane Lane, it combines the procedural nature of "Zodiac," the cat-and-mouse interplay of "Silence of the Lambs," and the ghastly images of "Seven."
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Summary: Not for Cat or animal people
Comment: If you are a cat person to preserve your sanity do not watch this movie. At minimum skip the first 15 to 20 minutes.
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Summary: Untraceable (Blue Ray)
Comment: This movie was very intense. I couldn't watch the whole thing the first time. I just wasn't in the mood. The second time I watched with friends and it was intense, but it was very good. If you are squeamish at all don't watch this, but if you like suspense till the end than this is for you.
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Summary: I hope the real life FBI agents are smarter than these guys...
Comment: So many plot holes! If somebody was murdered by hundreds of heating lamps... maybe the FBI should try to find out who the heck bought all those lamps? If somebody got burned to death in a pool of sulfuric acid, maybe, just maybe, they need to find out who purchased tanks and tanks of sulfuric acid! It's not one of those everyday items you buy at your local walmart! Who the heck wrote this script? A middle schooler? Are you kidding me?
The main character, who is a trained FBI agent has no idea how to protect herself knowing that someone's out there to kill her! Her computer gets broken into...and she's supposed to be a cybercrime expert? Her car got broken into and reprogrammed (huh?) and now that it's started back up again.. she enters the freaking car without even checking it out! And of course the killer was hiding in the back seat the whole time! What????? Are you kidding me?
I understand what they're trying to say... yes, things are getting perverted and people are getting more and more desensitized. It's scary.. But come on... at least put some effort into writing a decent script...
And what's with the FBI agents cheering as the main character kills the killer at the end? Do they think it's a football game?
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Summary: So Disturbing
Comment: It seemed like an interesting concept for a movie but it was very disturbing. So intensely disturbing in fact that I had difficulties falling asleep after watching the movie!
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