Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
Unwatchable
DarkCritic - wrote on 01/05/2010
The idea for Untraceable was good, but there was plot holes and bad character interaction all over to the place.
The story for Untraceable was original, but stupid at the same time. The idea of "the more hits the website gets, the faster the victim dies" was good, but the way that the movie presented the idea was stupid. Plus there were so many plot holes that the movie fell to pieces. After watching the movie for a while, the idea became very old very quickly. The deaths were creative, but reminded me of the Saw movies in a sense. There was an attempt at a plot, but the movie really revolved around killing.
The characters didn't really help the story either. Actually, the characters brought down the story. They weren't very dynamic, and most of their reactions were very bland. …
Rating of
2.5/4
not so untraceable!
movie man69 - wrote on 08/11/2008
This film looked great on movie trailers, but as I bought my popcorn and parked my back side on an uncomfortable cinema seat I was quite disappointed.The plot revolves around Jennifer Marsh a single mum and federal agent who works in the cyber crimes department of the FBI. Marsh is given a web address to investigate, and as she delves deeper she discovers a mad man torturing and killing people live on the internet. As more people log on to the site the quicker they are slaughtered.
At first I thought the premise of the story line was a stroke of genius but as I watched the movie the plot became very predictable and the use of the fore echoe I found was corny. The acting is pretty good and I have no complaints about the casting. As we discover who the killer is and his motives, it …
Rating of
2/4
I dont know
chiggles - wrote on 05/31/2008
A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies.
I must say right now that I really was not looking forward to seeing this movie at all. My neighbor happened to have it and I figured I should check it out while I had the chance. Now that I have seen the movie I must say that the film is not as bad as it is proposed to be, it just seems repetitive and dragged on in some moments. So basically, we have seen this plot before, …
Rating of
2/4
Interesting Idea but Unfocused
Franz Patrick - wrote on 03/15/2008
The trailers looked really exciting but an hour into the movie, I just wanted it to end. There were instances when I wondered where the film was going as I let out a big sigh of exhaustion. But that doesn't mean this movie doesn't have interesting plot points. I did like the idea behind this vehicle: the more people log into the website, the faster a person dies. A lot of people so easily label this as hypocritical but I didn't really care as long as I was entertained. Going into the movie, I didn't expect to learn anything new. I was well aware that people crave violence and it will probably stay that way for years to come. If they made this movie into an eighty minute film, it would've been a lot focused. Or if the filmmakers had made this into a procedural film, it would've been much …
Rating of
2/4
Review - Untraceable (2008)
Delorted - wrote on 01/30/2008
We live in an age where technology can be our friend or our enemy. Sometimes technology can actually be the solution to technological problems. I just wish I had some sort of technology to erase the original print of “Untraceable.”
Diane Lane stars as Jennifer Marsh, an FBI agent trying to crack down on a man who kidnaps people and tortures them live via his website and won’t kill them until enough people are logged on and watching. It’s kinda funny that the police are trying to stop him when they can’t keep track of him without logging on. Doesn’t that technically mean that the police are aiding in the murders?
Regardless, when you watch this you know by the end that you just watched a complete rip-off of “The Silence of the Lambs.” Not only is the mood similar, …
