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.System Requirements:Running Time: 101 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Rating: R UPC: 043396191341 Manufacturer No: 19134
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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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
I hope the real life FBI agents are smarter than these guys...:
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... more info
So Disturbing:
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!
Surprisingly, not half bad.:
I threw out my back this weekend so I was laying around in front of my TV looking for something to watch. Well I came across this movie on On Demand and decided to give it a try with my hopes held low. The acting is pretty mediocre, with some solid although sometimes questionable dialogue. The plot is a good one based in modern fears and actally has a good if not worrying message. The plot is really the high point of this movie and was the biggest surprise for me. It has some interesting torture moments for... more info
Unwatchable:
I love Diane Lane in Hollywoodland and Unfaithful but not in this! What I didn't like about Untraceable was it copied elements of Saw and Seven. It's like, don't screw with good movies, than it cheapens them and you get sick of watching the very movies they tried to copy. I also didn't like how they chose to use a kitten for the seriel killers first victim. What??!! Why couldn't they use a hooker or a bum, why an innocent kitten? This movie repulses me.
