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Untraceable (2008)

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Reviews Counted:139

Fresh:20

Rotten:119

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: Despite Diane Lane's earnest effort, Untraceable manages to be nothing more than a run-of-the-mill thriller with a hypocritical message.

Rated: 18 [See Full Rating] for some prolonged sequences of strong gruesome violence, and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:29-02-2008

Synopsis: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (FRACTURE, PRIMAL FEAR), UNTRACEABLE follows F.B.I. cybercrimes specialist Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) as she attempts to track down a serial killer who brazenly displays... Directed by Gregory Hoblit (FRACTURE, PRIMAL FEAR), UNTRACEABLE follows F.B.I. cybercrimes specialist Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) as she attempts to track down a serial killer who brazenly displays his murderous deeds on the Internet. Aided by fellow agent Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks) and local detective Eric Box (Billy Burke), Marsh tenaciously hunts for the elusive criminal in rainy Pacific Northwest settings, but as she closes in on her target, he deviously finds ways to get closer to her, all the while killing his victims in increasingly faster fashion. Clearly referencing a number of renowned thrillers--most notably the SAW films, SEVEN, and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS--UNTRACEABLE is far from an original cinematic exercise. However, Lane's steely, smart, and beautiful heroine ably anchors the film, which also benefits from its appropriately gloomy Portland, Oregon, backdrop. As with any effective suspense movie, the thrill is in the chase, with the cold-blooded killer proving to be quite adept at disguising his real location, even as his disturbingly popular site remains prominently on the web (hence the picture's title). Though not up to par with classics such as SEVEN and SILENCE, UNTRACEABLE is a well-crafted genre film that easily eclipses other like-minded fare, particularly FEARDOTCOM and the SAW sequels. [More]

Starring: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross

Starring: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Director: Gregory Hoblit
Screenwriter: Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker
Story: Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker, Allison Burnett
Producer: Steven Pearl, Andy Cohen, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Hawk Koch
Composer: Christopher Young
Studio: Screen Gems

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This silly cyber-thriller dies a quick death, whether or not you log on.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
02/07/08
Matt Stevens
Matt Stevens
E! Online

[T]he makers of Untraceable have come up with an effective solution to the problem of Internet piracy: Make films that nobody would want to pirate.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | comment Comment
02/07/08
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

The movie flirts with snuff-film torture porn, then has the cast-iron nerve to segue into preachy tut-tutting about what a society of voyeurs we are.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
02/05/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Takes the two most cliched types of serial killer movie and tries to fuse them together to create a spark of something original - it doesn't work

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
02/04/08
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

I wouldn’t spend my hard earned money on something that insults my intelligence this much.

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
02/01/08
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

"Untraceable" certainly isn't unwatchable, but it is a bit unbelievable, rather predictable and more than a little bit gruesome (-able?)

Full Review Source: Sean the Movie Guy | comment Comment
01/31/08
Sean McBride
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy

Untraceable? Unappetizing is more like it — or perhaps unrealistic, unconvincing and/or unexciting.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/31/08
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

The movie equivalent of a clueless old person ranting about the Internet.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
01/30/08
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Courageous Diane Lane plays a real woman without soft lighting, makeup, a hairdresser, or fancy clothes.

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment Comment
01/30/08
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Untraceable is a movie whose potential was tossed aside for the conventional trappings of the serial-killer genre.

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
01/30/08
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Untraceable? You'll only wish it was.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
01/30/08
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Just a bland crime movie that puts too much faith in an overbaked concept.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
01/29/08
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Geeky, gruesome and repugnant.

Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate | comment Comment
01/29/08
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate

Imagine Hostel with a CSI twist and done for the Oxygen network crowd, and you'll have an idea of what Untraceable is like.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
01/29/08
Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Boring, hypocritical, and didactic, Untraceable is an exercise in tut-tutting the audience for being curious about the very stuff the film traffics in.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
01/28/08
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Untraceable could have been a much more interesting film if it had simply stayed closer to its wonkish, Internet-flavored thriller roots.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
01/28/08
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
FilmStew.com

If I can forgive Lane for dating uber-douchebag Jon Bon Jovi, marrying Christopher Highlander 2 Lambert, and making Must Love Dogs, I can forgive her this.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
01/27/08
Pete Vonder Haar
Pete Vonder Haar
Film Threat

While Untraceable is an amiable enough way to kill two hours, it never gels into the kind of movie that would make me run out and start endorsing it to others.

Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
01/27/08
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

Is it really ethical for a film to warn of the irresistible appeal of online snuff films while it simultaneously indulges, practically pornographically, in graphic displays of the same sort of kinky perversion?

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
01/27/08
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

What amounts to being a solid thriller collapses into an absurd potboiler as though the scriptwriters ran out of ideas.

Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
01/26/08
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers
 
 
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