wfhbear OK, I live in a box so, there are things that slip by when they are new. This drama was new in 2008. I just watched it today. I am impressed at the suspense and the thrills. The cinematography is the main part of the story. This whole thing was filmed to make you think, scare you a bit, and make you believe this is all happening in your neighborhood. I was impressed by the storyline. As it progressed I kept thinking "yeah, this is what's going to happen". Then, things would change direction. When you turn this "very cool" Suspense Thriller on, you need to finish it completely. The last couple minutes are "stand up and cheer" emotional. Ms. Lane is a completely believable, overly dedicated, seriously gutsy, FBI Agent. I liked this movie right through the credits...........See it some evening with your "Buddy", a lot of beer, snacks, and the lights dimmed. Guys and Girls should find this a great "Movie Time" night.

begob Lonely female widowed feisty ageing FBI internet detective tracks an elusive killer who stages online murders for the titillation of the irresponsible masses. But as she stares into the abyss, the abyss stares into her ...I wish the last bit of that description were true, but this story is nuance free. A cynical, smug celebration of an elite appointed to control the great unwashed. A cop has a hunch, a supposition, draws an inference - send in the SWAT team! Smash down them doors! No sense of the truth that policing generates crime. Instead the concept is Silence Of The Lambs meets electronic media manipulation with CSI precision, and the characterisation is all wooden, with none of the self-reflective doubt that made Silence so great.Acting and pace are good, music standard. The daughter sub plot is pointless. At least the cast refrained from chanting USA! USA! before shooting the crap out of everyone in range.

BA_Harrison Silence of the Lambs meets Saw in this contrived hi-tech serial killer thriller starring Diane Lane as Jennifer Marsh, an F.B.I. Cyber Crimes agent investigating a website called Killwithme.com, which streams live video of people being tortured and killed by a psycho in his basement. The more people who log on to the site, the quicker the victim dies!Morbid curiosity and internet access has led me to see some pretty disturbing stuff in the past, but I would definitely draw the line at watching a murder, and I trust that most people would do likewise. The makers of Untraceable, on the other hand, assume that the masses would have no such qualms about watching live footage of people being killed, even if doing so made them complicit in the crime. It doesn't say much about their faith in humanity.Thank heavens, then, that our every click on the world-wide-web is being monitored — or so the authorities would dearly like us to believe: Untraceable is thinly veiled propaganda for the F.B.I. designed to scare the public into behaving themselves online. It kinda backfires, though, by unintentionally portraying the organisation as being full of incompetents: while millions log on to see innocent victims being bled to death, burnt to a crisp, and melted in acid, the F.B.I. fail to make any headway in blocking the site, but do manage to get two of their own people trapped by the killer (F.B.I. agents are clearly not trained to look in the back seat of their car). Doh!Despite a reasonable central performance from Diane Lane and a few effectively disgusting death scenes, Untraceable fails thanks to its dubious message—that most people are morally bankrupt and need to be policed—and a silly script full of iffy technological nonsense that only gets more and more preposterous as it progresses (the finalé is absolutely hilarious!).

lurch13-68-305112 I tried.I really tried but this movie was made for invoking shock...nothing more. Firstly, this review is full of Spoilers so don't read if you want to be surprised by this cinematic masterpiece. The portrayal of impotent law enforcement and an "cybercop" that shifts seamlessly from investigating this gruesome killer to being a perfect single mom was seriously unrealistic. The killings were elaborate, too elaborate to be believed. Kind of like when Goldfinger tied James Bond up to a block and tried to cut him up with an industrial laser. This killer would have to have pretty deep pockets and serious engineering skills. I don't know because I stopped watching right around the Sulfuric Acid scene. The acting was just too far below the bar to swallow. It's as if the actors just mailed in their performances, saving their true ability for another movie. I'm serious. This movie stunk.