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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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Untraceable may not rank as one of the best serial-killer thrillers of all time, but it packs enough punch to hold your attention way past the whodunit point.

Full Review Source: San Antonio Express-News | comment Comment
01/25/08
Larry Ratliff
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News

...the picture is grimly unpleasant, and the formulaic conclusion subverts whatever earnest intentions were present at the beginning.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
01/25/08
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV

Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe Untraceable, a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/25/08
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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This joyless thriller runs the gamut from unconscionable through unwatchable to unendurable. It's also unfathomable that two talented people, Diane Lane and her director, Gregory Hoblit, got themselves involved in such an unpromising enterprise.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
01/25/08
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

Untraceable feels sleazy and gratuitous.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
01/25/08
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

In case you didn't catch it, the moral is that each time we indulge our inner voyeur by visiting macabre websites or tuning into salacious tabloid news, we're implicated in the larger cultural crime.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/25/08
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Untraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
01/25/08
Philip Marchand
Philip Marchand
Toronto Star

Untraceable really is disgraceable.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
01/25/08
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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As plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/25/08
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

It can't have been easy for hundreds of actors, technicians and stunt people to show up for work every day to make a movie whose message is, essentially: Don't go see this movie.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
01/25/08
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Untraceable isn't unwatchable, but it's a pretty miserable experience, from a director who knows better.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
01/25/08
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

Untraceable often seems to go out of its way to tip off what's coming, so that it's hard to tell whether the film's writers are lazy, clumsy or just painfully obvious.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
01/25/08
Bruce Newman
Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News

Hateful, brutalizing, inexcusable.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
01/25/08
Arthur Salm
Arthur Salm
San Diego Union-Tribune

Technology is the film's only hook. Otherwise, it's a standard B-movie thriller featuring basement torture chambers and an FBI agent-single mom who tracks a killer before becoming a target herself.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/25/08
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
Sacramento Bee

You can call this movie Untraceable but you can't call it Unpredictable.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
01/25/08
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

From its obvious foreshadowing to Marsh's big PowerPoint presentation of the killer's cause-and-effect, Untraceable is a mite too traceable to get under the skin.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
01/25/08
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Untraceable is also relentlessly grim and dull, and runs afoul of all the pitfalls you find in movies in which people rely on computers to do their detecting.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
01/25/08
M.E. Russell
M.E. Russell
Oregonian

The movie chides us for being a sick voyeuristic society, hungry for the sight of violence. The purity of this moral stance is somewhat clouded by the movie's habit of staging sick violent acts.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/25/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

Untraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
01/25/08
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

A diverting police procedural.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment 1 Comment
01/25/08
Kevin Crust
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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