5/5 UNTRACEABLE BRUTAL AND ENTERTAINING MOVIE-DIANE IS GOOD IN IT!!
  by ted bundy jr. (new york , usa)
untraceable is a very good movie to check out. the story plot is interesting that serial killers is killing people by using the internet as their tool of method. how do they do it---the killer place the victim in a device that will kill them but the catch is the number of hits or times they visit the site they more they are quicker to die. as one character said in the movie we are the weapon by visiting the site you will kill the victim. so you are thinking why dont they shut the site down, their ip address and place them under arrest well its not that simple because the title of the movie says it all...they are untraceable. they make it hard for you to catch the killer. i thought the most chilling scene was the ending where the message is very clear about the worlds obsession with live action internet or the internet in general. how many times have you visit youtube to check out a clip of something happening in the world and made a comment on it or visit a live site to see something so crazy that you spread the news to your friends. the point is that untraceable does show you how crazy our obsession for the internet can be. so this killer use the people to kill their victims for being curious to see how the person dies. so i thought the idea for the movie was very good. diane lane was very good in this performance. she wasn't oscar worthy or anything like that but she was very good in this role trying to take down the serial killer while trying to maintain her family and her sanity. so check out the movie its at a great price. i am sure you can find it for a penny because there are a lot of sellers on here who can sell it for you for a penny. so if you like movies like bone collector, switchback, copycat...its more like copycat but just add the internet age to it. and i almost forget colin hanks was very good in this performance too. i like the way how he died in the movie. it was kinda funny lol

4/5 america's critic
  by David R. Lingard (memphis tn)
untraceable was execelent great acting story was neat, i really enjoyed this 1, i like the killing scenes they were prettty cool, all in all i reccomand this one rent it or purchase it on sale.

4/5 The 'Hits' Keep On A-Comin'
  by Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
This movie isn't as "brutal" as I had heard it was, becausa torture was part of the story, but it's still a tough movie. It tuned out to be more of a suspense and crime tale than something too gross and sick to watch......and, as far as crime films go, this a decent watch. I'm not sorry I rented it.

The movie's message is a sad one: that people would even be indirect accomplices to a murder just to satisfy their morbid curiosities. In the story, if you logged onto a particular sick website run by a sadistic killer, each "hit" would help slowly murder someone. The twisted weirdo who had people rigged up to his killing machines counted on people to help him and.......sadly......they did.

By the way, has anyone ever seen an FBI agent that looked and was built like Diane Lane? Hmmm.....I don't think so.


1/5 Great date movie!
  by Coronet Blue (California)
His dad was murdered by a kitten? I'll just say that this is not my idea of entertainment. But hey, live and let--oh, sorry.

4/5 A lot of people didn't like this, but I'm not one of them.
  by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit, 2008)

Untraceable is a movie that made me vaguely uncomfortable, and I couldn't quite put my finger on why until I read the best/worst of 2008 lists at Dread Central, where one of the reviewers there handed it to me (never let it be said that I don't give credit where credit is due); he called it the hypocrisy of the movie, the idea that this is a movie about watching, and contributing to, evil while turning its viewers into voyeurs themselves. (He put it much better than I just did; I don't have the article to hand to directly quote.) That said, I think maybe that reviewer missed the point a bit; I got the idea that this was a conscious decision by director Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear) and screenwriters Robert Fyvolent (his first credit), Mark Brinker (also debuting here), and Allison Burnett (Autumn in New York).

The movie is the story of Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane), an FBI cybercrimes investigator. During a seemingly unrelated investigation, she stumbles upon a website whose premise is revolting, yet fascinating--a person is restrained in some way, and destined for a grisly end, with the rate at which the person will die is determined by the number of hits the website gets. Everyone who logs on, then, takes part in the murder, albeit indirectly. Once she starts tracking the guy, he finds out who she is and begins tracking her as well, turning the investigation into a game of cat and mouse; which will get to the other first?

I've been a fan of Diane Lane's for a long, long time (I first saw her in Lady Beware some two decades ago and was instantly captivated), and it's the rare Lane movie that I end up not liking. Such is the case here; I did find it an effective thriller, though some of its plot twists were all too predictable (you just know that a member of her team is going to end up in the chair at one point, because hasn't that plot twist been used in dozens of thrillers over the years?). The thing that truly makes it effective, I think, is exactly that aspect of the film that the Dread Central reviewer called hypocrisy; the idea that we film viewers are voyeurs, especially those of us who are drawn to the darker side of film. I thought the writers of this movie, adapted from an original story by Fyvolent and Brinker, were using that voyeurism idea to explore the concept that, perhaps, being drawn to darker thrillers, slasher films, and that sort of thing, which is usually viewed as a harmless, or cathartic, form of escapism is perhaps something more. It does tread a line that I find objectionable, in that it cleaves uncomfortably to the same mindset that allows people to charge that heavy metal music or Dungeons and Dragons or whatever leads to people killing each other (which is, despite its prevalence, just a ludicrous idea; if you lend it any credence, you can safely dismiss this review, as we're coming from opposite directions when viewing this movie). But I don't believe the script in any way goes over this line, and that makes all the difference. It's a clearheaded examination of this phenomenon, and I think the choice of the killer makes it relatively clear that the writers weren't trying to use him as synecdochic of an entire society (which would have been problematic, obviously, given the cause-and-effect argument I mentioned above). So, yes, there's an hypocrisy here, but I don't think it's an hypocrisy on the part of the writers; I think they were examining an hypocrisy that's endemic to our society and goading us to think about it.

I liked it. I know a lot of people didn't, so I expect your mileage will vary, but I think it's worth a rental. *** ½