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| Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 4294
Genre: Action - Crime
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 102 Minutes
ASIN: B001BRS5WG
Theatrical Release Date: January 25, 2008
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 80
 Entertaining May 29, 2008
Romina Wilcox (Silicon Valley Author)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This movie has lots of actions, tense, as you would expect from a cyber-movie. The main plot is about a psychotic man who uses his taser to get the people to his "dungeon" and display the torture online. I thought the plot was brilliant. The way he does his torture where the lights increases as the viewers increases which practically baked the victim; the use of chemical (forgot what it was) on the next person; and the voice changer so the psycho can lure his victim - I thought those were all unique and high-concept.
Now adays, though, Feds can easily trace the IP address. In this movie, they have difficulty tracing the IP address of the user. I'm sure that is why the title is Untraceable. The computer forensic folks are a lot savier now. It would have added more mystery if the audience does not know who the person behind the keyboard. That would have given them something to solve.
I laughed at the ending, though. When the heroin broke loose of her captivity where she was tied upside down, one of the users posted a question: "How can I download this scene." (something like this). I thought that was hilarious as it shows us our obsession with live Interent action.
Again, this movie is entertaining enough in a different way. I would still recommend seeing it. Cold Eyes
Untraceable Unwatchable? Not At All! January 23, 2008
Nathan M. Rose (Delray Beach, FL United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
January is usually the dumping ground for movies that didn't cut it for the holiday season, but starting in 2008 with Cloverfield and now Untraceable this is no longer the case.
Untraceable is the story of FBI agent Jennifer March (Diane Lane), a single mother who is part of the Cybercrime division in Portland, Oregon. Life is normally mundane for the Cybercrime division (taking down the normal teenage identity thief) , but all that is about to change with a cat...
Untraceable's suspense never lets up , and with quick witty dialog by the characters (and a great performance by Tom Hank's son, Collin Hanks) the movie is over even before it starts. While most movies fall into the typical plot devices and settings Untraceable easily avoids them.
When a studio decides to mix technology and movies they usually have two dilemmas.; How to make the movie understandable for the normal moviegoer and the technological advanced once (aka geeks) Most movies choose to dumb down the "cyber talk" however Untraceable gets it right, even with the correct using of TTL (Time to Live)
In general, today's audiences have been desensitized to gore and even crave it with movies such as Saw or Hostel. In fact from the opening of Untraceable you would think this will occur, but Untracacle's director, Gregory Hoblit is extremely skillful and takes his cues from Alfred Hitchcock and just shows enough for our imagination to take over for the rest.
From the teenager to the baby boomer Untraceable offers something for everyone, action, suspense, an intelligent story that is relevant to our times, and something to keep everyone entertained during the cold days of winter
-- Nathan M Rose (flickdirect.com)
Untraceable May 16, 2008
C. A. Luster (Burke, VA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Based on reviews I expected something like "Saw", but that wasn't the case. This wasn't a horror, it was a crime drama like "Bone Collector". An FBI investigative team tries to track down a murderer that has a website tied to the method of murder. The problem is he hides his tracks to well on the internet. His murders are conducted based on the number of hits the website recieves. In one case the more people visit the website, the water the person he kidnapped is soaking in turns to battery acid. So this is not for the squemish or young. This is also the one thing I have trouble with in the movies given perception. Being a computer geek for over twenty-four years I know if you want someone shut down for killing people, there is a way including going to their ISP if not the networks or IPs they're bouncing through. That aside it was a pretty decent movie. In fact scarier when you consider the popularity of public websites for people to post videos. One can't help wonder if people at least initially would think something like this was a hoax and tell all their friends to check it out. Hence one facet of this is feasible. The texted graphic comments we see would then be understandable as well as I have seen people make comments like those about online game characters. When they don't think it is real, but just fake with acting and props, then you can see why it is believable. The acting was good, the directing, story, and music were all well done. Overall I would recommend it if you like movies like "Along Came a Spider" and "Kiss the Girls". Good quality DVD with decent replayability.
 Unwatchable May 18, 2008
John Mozuke (Parts Unknown, WV United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Another poster wrote, "This movie disguised as a crime thriller, is an excuse for watching torture. How sadistic."
Couldn't agree with you more.
More Cent-Com Propaganda, Written by Feds? May 19, 2008
H. A Huffman (Mt. Prospect, IL USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Other reviewers call this "Torture-Porn", its much worse than that. This is another Cent-Com (Central Command) Psy-Op designed to push the idea that Net Neutrality is evil. The film depicts Feds spying on people's Internet browsing as angels looking out for those evil criminals.
It was chilling to watch how, in the beginning of the film, the Fed played by Diane Lane zeroes in on a "cyber-criminal" in a suburban housing tract - and then calls in the Assualt Team to "take him down". (YOU SLAVES BETTER NOT BROWSE THE WRONG SITES, OR ELSE!!) Then the film tries to humanize the domestic spy by showing her at home with her daughter - see, she's just like you and me..
The killer in the film is completely one-dimendional, another "evil Internet user" who kills people using the evil Internet. In case you missed the movie's underlying message:"We must control this evil Internet" - kinda like the way they do in China. Yeah, that will fix everything! The killer is caught, because he decides to do something really stupid. Then the film just ends. No epilogue, nothin'.
This film is worse than torture-porn, its treason.
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