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Date: 2008-07-26
It is bad...
This movie was bad and the story line was bad. Unfortunately the couple of scene was horrible. Anyway this movie was out of joy. It's complicated.
the story was too short. It isn't cool movie.

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-24
The Premise was good and offered some food for thought!
"Untraceable" is about Special Agent Jennifer Marsh, who is assigned to the Cybercrime Task Force Unit of the FBI. While monitoring hackers and other cyber crimes, she stumbles across a website that invites people to "killwithme". Therefore as the death count rises, so does the boldness of his actions and the motive for his senseless killings. What I found interesting about the movie was the entire premise of "if given a chance, would you watch, even if it meant someone would die, events unfolding on-line"? Would knowing that your mere actions would result in someone's death, stop you from watching or prevent you from clicking "enter" with your mouse? Maybe I analyzed it all too much, but based on what I know of our society and its need to know and my belief that most people are voyeurs, I think that people would tune in. Think about it, we live in a world of technology (blackberries, palms and PDAs) and reality television. How many people dial up to watch the ridiculous or simply watch things that they know are private? How many people dial up to watch Big Brother After Hours? Afterall, we live in a society where we want to view sex and or violence, even if on some level we know it isn't right, but we are curious. So hopefully that kind of explains why I gave this movie "3*s" because underneath it all, I think it offered food for thought.

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-23
Good, but could have been better
Gripping no doubt but flaws and absurd incidents mar this film. The ending of the film seemed a bit too abrupt. In the scene where Diane's car is hacked it was only obvious that something sinister was going to happen. When Diane returns to her car she inspects it very carelessly. In fact she had just seen a human figure near her vehicle. This scene was poorly done. After losing her close associate to the killer, detective Box visits her and buys her dinner. After a while the next scene shows Diane getting out of the bed with Box sleeping in the bed beside her. Without any romance this scene was absurd and was totally unnecessary. Box sleeping in a nearby couch would have made a very big difference instead.

The good points are Diane Lane's good acting and the plot. In today's world of easy to access information you get the feeling of how internet viewers are no different than the spectators of the Colosseium. At least the spectators of the Coliseum weren't voyeurs. The hackers and viewers of the internet and how we have sleuths people tracking these hackers and even outsmarting them was well done. Christopher Young's good background music is also worth mentioning.

And finally don't forget to check out the killer's site in your web browser. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-23
Undeniably Mediocre
Untraceable? You mean UNreal and UNbelievable. Everything that's been done before is done all over again and done badly. The dialogue is one of the worst, you'll find yourself cringing over some of the lines said in places where no one in their right mind would utter in the particular situation. Even worse cringing over how poorly acted some of the supporting cast delivers those lines. The saving grace? Diane lane for one, does a good job at pulling it off and keeping us interested as well as just the right sprinkle of suspense to keep you peeled to the screen long enough to get to the end debating on if it was worth it or not.

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-22
I want a server that robust!
I understand I have to suspend my disbelief with movies like this, but I wasn't interested enough in the characters to make it worth the effort. And it's not about the people tuning in; a troll through the videos on the internet make it obvious that people would watch it, though I have a hard time believing there were 12 million viewers and the load doesn't crash the site. It's more about the FBI's inability to take down a website. I find that... highly unlikely. Still, I could have overlooked it (goodness knows I'm no computer expert, perhaps it's possible, but there are plenty of governments out there blocking a lot more than a single website...) had the rest of the story been compelling or interesting enough to make me care. If I cared at all about the characters in the story. But I didn't. They were flat and boring and I honestly cared more about his first victim than I did all the others put together.

I suppose there was some high, moral message to the story, in the end, but it was so smothered in... fluff and tedium that it lost any real meaning. It felt like Saw or Hostel without the gore (okay, there was a little bit of icky, but nothing compared to the levels of those movies). Which leave you with a vague plot, some action sequences, and a lukewarm, predictable ending. It's fine for an evening when there's nothing on, or for watching with a group of friends (and throwing popcorn at the screen), but overall you won't be missing out much if you pass it by.

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