Untraceable (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
by Gregory Hoblit
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Actor: Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Diane Lane, Joseph Cross, Zachary HoffmanDirector: Gregory Hoblit
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Anastas Michos
Composer: Christopher Young
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Untraceable (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: "The whole world wants to watch you die, and they don't even know you."
Summary: 2 Stars
UNTRACEABLE, for all its aspirations to being a harrowing psychological techno-thriller, ends up mostly flat and uninteresting. But, after SAW and Rob Zombie's terrifying flicks, maybe my threshold for the grotesque and the disquieting is now just too high. The visceral torture scenes in UNTRACEABLE invoke a sense of uneasiness, but the rest of the film simply can't maintain the squirmy suspense. It's too bad, because things do start out promisingly and ominously, and with a kitten.
Diane Lane and Colin Hanks play two federal agents working out of the FBI's Cyber Crimes Division who become part of a Portland task force assembled to catch a psychopath who conducts online torture and eventual murder of his abducted victims, all done on live streaming video. The hook to his website is that it's interactive. The more hits the site garners, the faster the torture goes, and the sooner the victim dies, thus rendering the viewer an accomplice to murder. As the FBI and the Portland police desperately pursue leads - but mostly flounder around, feeling helpless - the killer begins to engage them in a cat & mouse game. And soon, members of the task force find themselves targeted. Note that Diane Lane's character is a widowed single mom, so concerns regarding her cute and curious daughter surface quite early.
Here's a bit of a rant (sorry, dudes): There's a dubious credo subscribed to by a rude percentage of the web surfing community, that with the ability to anonymously log on comes a certain rush and also a rebuffing of consequences. The world wide web can often times bring out the utter crud in people. The most disturbing things in the film may have been the crudity and mean-spiritedness generated on the snuff site's chat room window. This is the morbid onlooker's syndrome as transferred online, and it is unsavory stuff. Is it in our DNA that we get our ya-yas gazing at horrifying things, that we can't at all avert our eyeballs? Me, I'm not really one to talk. I couldn't help watching the SAW films, and HOSTEL. Hell, eons ago, I even saw FACES OF DEATH. And, like most, I'll take an inquisitive peek at a roadside accident. It's genetics, right? Because if it is, then I'll feel better about watching so many low taste films.
It's like this. A film can flirt with snuff & torturerama and then can have the gall to sermonize about voyeurism and the growing desensitizing of the masses. Fine by me. But, by the hammer of Thor, that film had better not bore me! UNTRACEABLE, being not at all an edgy film, failed to engage me. It's certainly a far cry from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, or SE7EN, or even SAW. Just because a character in the film says mystifying things like "We're blackholing those IPs!" or "backdooring those Trojans," that does not a smart film make (and is it me or does "backdooring a Trojan" sound kinda not cool?). The film's weak elements serve to drag the whole thing down. Can't lay the blame too much on Diane Lane (although her character does some unclever things). Diane Lane is solid enough and lends a warmth to her character. But the rest of the cast is unremarkable (sorry, Tom Hank's son). There's a triteness to the story, a certain plodding blah-ness to it, and certainly no jaw-dropping twists. The website torture sequences are fraught with queasy tension and a certain sicko factor, so the film succeeds from that aspect. Yet the villain is unmemorable, and his identity really is revealed too early in the game (so there goes a chunk of the suspense). Typically, annoyingly, the agents are undermined by a self-serving and officious boss, and I only wish that he'd been kidnapped and tortured. Then there's the anticlimactic and unsatisfying showdown between Diane Lane and the killer, followed by the film ending rather abruptly. By that point, I didn't even mind.
Summary of Untraceable (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]
Within the FBI there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) and Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks) have seen it all - until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.Untraceable fuses Saw with The Net in a perverse yet moralistic story about a psychopath who broadcasts acts of torture over the internet--all to better reveal the twisted underbelly of the American public, who hasten the victims' deaths simply by looking at the website. FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane, her mature-sexy mojo tamped down but still simmering in the corners of her eyes and the nape of her neck) launches a cyberhunt for the killer, only to find herself and her team caught up in his murderous scheme. It's hard to make tapping on a keyboard and staring at a computer screen exciting, but Untraceable does its best by making Marsh and her cybercrimebusting partner (Colin Hanks, King Kong) rattle off cascades of jaunty techno-jargon and do impressive bits of long-distance surveillance. The movie aims for the audience that flocked to see Ashley Judd in thrillers like Kiss the Girls and Double Jeopardy, but it's hard to say if fans of Lane's romantic fare like Under the Tuscan Sun or Must Like Dogs will enjoy the queasy violence. Nonetheless, the cast--including Mary Beth Hurt (The World According to Garp) as Marsh's mother--does a solid job and the movie clips along at an aggressive pace, maintaining tension throughout. --Bret Fetzer
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