Untraceable
| release date | January 25 2008 |
| studio | Screen Gems |
| director | Gregory Hoblit |
| writer | Mark Brinker, Allison Burnett |
| starring | Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt, Tim De Zarn, Daniel Liu |
| site | sonypictures.com/movies/untraceable/ind |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I thought this would be a good movie. Than it turned out to be a torture. torture should have stopped after saw 3. Now theres saw 3+4 which both sucked and hostel which i did enjoy. Now this. this movie was allright. the ending was what excited me. i wont spoil the ending for you if you hsvent seen it. but if u want to see a good movie thats a horror or thriller go see cloverfield, or the eye.
For what the subject matter was, it wasn’t bad at all. It didn’t try to be anything more than a typical CSI episode – and it would have been one amazing episode.
Sadly they released it as a movie – and it was one bad movie. It gives a whole new meaning to the words “unoriginal” and “anticlimactic”.
But that wasn’t my main complaint. If that was the only thing wrong with the movie, it would have at least got 5 stars.
So what was wrong with it?
I don’t hate PG-13 horror. I hate horror that is rated R and doesn’t use any of that potential. This movie could have been rated PG-13, because they cut the camera away every single time something potentially gory could have happened. First, it stole Saw traps – BUT THEN it made them pathetic and tame. Bloody? There were maybe a few ounces in the opening.
I saw the new Indiana Jones movie before I rented and watched this movie. Indiana Jones had more gore, and it was rated “light PG-13″.
Dear God, can no movie be gory anymore other than the Saw series? Is there no movie who makers who aren’t afraid to do bloodbath? Because, seriously, folks, I’ve seen E-rated video games with more gore than this lame false advertisement for a non-bloody CSI episode.
Pure entertaining.
Nothing more. Diane Lane is fabulous here, albeit the weak script.
Good.
I think it was really goood and yeah its nothing original but at least its worth the rent so to the people who didnt liked it FUCK YOU.
Stuck somewhere between a polite Silence of the Lambs-esque thriller and the gory torture excess of the Saw series or Hostel, Untraceable just ends up feeling confused and surprisingly boring. Diane Lane is good, but she can’t support a script that seems to think it’s more clever than it actually is. There’s nary a thrill to be found and you start to realize that this movie feels a lot like an unofficial remake of Dario Argento’s The Card Player.
Not really worth your time or money. Wait for T.V.
Better than I was expecting it to be, this is probably the best horror film relating to “dot com” movies and such, it’s probably the smartest, with only a few others that come to mind like “fear dot com” and a few others, this is probably the smartest and most interesting of them all, the story and the characters are good, the violence is there and enough when necessary, suspensful, intense, but the whole time im watching it i felt there was a big something missing in it, without quite pinpointing it, it just felt something was missing, perhaps a bigger punch, or a more vicious intense villian when revealed, but when you find out who it is and his reasoning, your more understanding than hateful towards him.
This came out on my birthday. Granted I didn’t see it, I seen Rambo insted.
But anyway… It’s a good film.
What a terrible film. I expected it to be a great psychological-thriller movie. Unfortunately, even it was confused about its identity, and it went from being a psych thriller, to ‘Saw’ rip-off (actually, more like Saw IV, or Saw II. This isn’t good enough to be continued a rip-off of such a great movie!), and back again. I just couldn’t get into it, and even Diane Lane was a little off in this movie. Just terrible.
and ill bang diane lane too F^%%$%$
Internet jargon aside, this movie was really well put together and the intensity of the deaths is great. Admitedly more of a thriller than a horror, but a fucking great thriller!!
Moderators, please make 0 an official rating. That way, we can give shite films like this the rating it so deserves. What a load of fucking shit this film was. If you watch this film and enjoy what you’re seeing, you don’t know horror films and/or are retarded. Fuck this movie!
I thought Untraceable would be a much better movie. Once again, this movie was made to look good by a preview which seemed to show the good parts to make it seem like a more different storyline. The killer was known around half-way into the movie, which took away the mystery/suspense concept of it because it was just some random kid who’s father died. I think the storyline and script could have been better beacuse it was a great movie concept, but the one who had the idea scripted it incorrectly. Overall, I was a bit disappointed and I would give Untraceable a 4/10.
Cool. The movie starts straight into the plot, which is always a plus, and then thats where the movie goes beyond good. The scenes switching between the “live-streaming” and the actual basement where the killing is, was very well paced, and was well placed. Towards the end, it got better and better with one plot hole, which was never actually resolved, so who knows hat that means.
The Plot was very original and very realistic. Alot of people definately would go on a site just for curiosity, and to see if the killing is real or a hoax.
The acting by Diane Lane was superb. Every scene and emotion was so well placed, and gave the film the sense of fear that the plot was giving.
Overall “Untraceable” is a must see of 2008, and is definately one for the “Saw” fans. My rating is 3.5/5
Decent but it reminded me of some csi episode and I’ve seen better movies of its kind. Could of been much better. Diane Lane was good as always though.
This was a very good first rate thriller. I love how technology can be a bleesing and a curse for us in todays society. Nice take on the smart serial killer.
very good and entertaing well done
Over recent years films have been using the worldwide web as its topic, and attempts to tackle cyber crime by finding the identity of the killer by using overly long, bewildering technical explanations. Untraceable is another film to fit this criterion by crossing between torture pornography of the Saw-style instruments of death and high tech shenanigans of films like The Net or Cellular. I feel that the director Gregory Hoblit is a little late with this idea as maybe a few years ago this might have been an innovative cutting edge thriller. It now seems a touch rote and out of date.
Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works for the FBI’s cyber crime division with partner Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks), fighting identity theft and similar crimes. An anonymous tip leads them to investigate a website addressed killwithme.com (try typing it in your browser for a duplicate of what the film’s display). The site features a streaming video of a kitten being tortured and killed. After the kitten’s death, killwithme.com’s webmaster (Joseph Cross) `graduates’ to human victims and makes their deaths correlate directly with the number of hits the site receives. At a press conference, the public are urged to avoid the website, but as Marsh feared, this only increases the site’s popularity. The two FBI agents can’t track this seemingly untraceable serial killer and have to rely on hints that this person is giving if they’re ever going to catch him. As they get closer to the truth, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal as the webmaster is now targeting them to be the next tortured guests on his website.
There are too many technical aspects that are improbable for a young wunderkind like Joseph Cross to manipulate the worldwide Internet and PC systems at his whims. I think the casting was right for Cross who has a baby boy (almost angelic) look to him who is yet one masterminding such incontrollable terror, but I just can’t believe a guy has more up-to-date state of the art technology at his disposal than the FBI Cyber Crime Department have at theirs. As the film progresses so does the killers intellectual knowledge of how to tackle all things electronically. It’s absurd and not at all believable. But also so is the motivation behind the killer’s attacks that totally lets down the film if it already wasn’t.
The show casting of Untraceable suppose to not only show the disturbing effect of the victims getting murdered but also the responses from the fan base that’s viewing them. This is suppose to be thought provoking but can’t be taken seriously enough when the film itself revels in them. In order to make this work Gregory Hoblit would have to make the audience feel more complicity in the crimes and this he fails to do. The film indicates that as a society, our blood lust and morbid curiosity is growing by the day, which may have stricken me a lot more if it was told more properly.
You know what you’re getting into as soon as the film begins until its rather anticlimactic ending. Those who like their thrillers to have a haphazard plotline that seems to have no structure or fluidity to it might probably warm to Untraceable, a serial killer film whose narrative has been done countless times before in other standard thriller fares. There is nothing smart about this at and if you can bypass all the negatives I have given it then all you have is the entertainment factor remaining. This can get higher marks for that but never offers any twists or contempt for the audience’s intelligence, even if you don’t know much about computers.
ill give it 8 out of 10
A thrill-ride!
Yes it’s a predictable and cliched thriller, but it always was engaging. It certainly entertained and always kept my attention on the screen. It was a bit like “Silence of the Lambs” meets “Saw” over the internet? Maybe on Match.com or something? And it does work, although it could’ve benefited from being much more gritty and have a less made for TV feel. The directing should’ve been much more edgy but then again it isn’t really supposed to be a horror film, it’s a thriller with horror elements. The script, although intelligent, could’ve been much darker and perhaps felt less rushed with all this computer speak mumbo-jumbo. But, in the end it was an average, thrilling little ride that got a bit rushed towards the end and also is unfortunately forgettable. Worth a watch though!
This is movie I can watch over and over ….