3.5 stars. Granted there are quite a number of squeamish moments and there are a few holes in motivations for the heroine, but Untraceable did a decent job in getting me to suspend disbelief in order to enjoy the mystery and thin suspense of the main storyline. Overall, I think the script would have been better suited as an episode on one of the many TV cop shows than a feature film, but c'est la vie.
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
