Product Description

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.System Requirements:Running Time: 101 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Rating: R UPC: 043396191341 Manufacturer No: 19134

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #240 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2008-05-13
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 101 minutes

Amazon.com
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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Customer Reviews

Lame Movie that has no thrills
I have just three questions for the writers of this movie: 1.-How can a FBI computer crimes agent only use the computer three maybe four times in a movie about the internet?; 2.-How does a FBI computer crimes agent not have a secure wireless network and also lets her seven just turned eight year old daughter download anything off the net; and finally, 3.-As a woman, an FBI agent, and the widow of a cop how does she not close her curtains at night in her house? I mean the killer just sat outside her house and watched her. As I write this I've just thought of another question that came to me. Why would she have secure FBI files on her laptop and not a firewall to be found. And please enough of the troubled but brillant killers. A little thought and research would have done this movie well. Did she not have any friends who were hackers that could have helped out. What's up with talking on unsecure phone lines when you know you are dealing with a computer whiz. Enough. Just a really dumb and lazily written movie. For a good cyber-crime thriller read the Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver.

SURPRISE , you've seen it all before
1. the very smart killer stays several steps ahead of the authorities .
2. the characters we are spoon fed an emotional investment in are abducted and dispatched . 3. the colleagues look on appalled and helpless . 4. the lead detective (a female model) has a heterosexual fellow officer with no personal life and an enormous moral compass .
5. she's very resourceful (particularly after making horrible decisions) I.E. re-entering a vehicle disabled by the killer .
6. the detective must see the case through to its' bitter end (regardless of personal safety and/or the counsel of fellow and senior officers) .
7. deductions are timely and digital-clock-precise provided the lead detective is in danger .
8. roll credits . rinse and repeat as needed .

Nice package, could have been better.
Diane Lane starts as an FBI cyber-crimes investigator, part of an elite super high-tech unit within the Buerau, dedicated to investigate cyber criminals, where it's of the utmost importance that you catch the perpetrator in the act. She comes across a gritty lady, who still misses her recently deceased husband, and who, along with her daughter and mother is part of a woman-only household, happily managing life.

Things begin to pick up when a site somes up, where torture death is purported to be shown, the catch being that the higher the hit-rate on the website, the faster will be the death. The FBI is clueless about the origins of this site, hence the name of the movie. The throwing-around of tech jargon does unsettle quite a few, but one must admit that the most tech-illiterate would not find the movie hard to follow despite it all. The pace as well as tension is maintained, and the stakes are raised higher, when after successfully experimenting with a cat, the website targets a man.

What follows is some really grisly, and I must add quite imaginative, "online" murder scenes, and some impressive old-fashioned detective work. All in all, "Untraceable" comes across as a grim reminder of the modern day Internet-ophile who survives off the WWW, no matter what is being served. The topic of the general public feeding on the sadistic website is reminscent of the video of an erstwhile famous reporter, whose last moments were also put on the famous Net, and hungrily gobbled down by everyone everywhere (did I hear you say, in the name of curiousity?)

The pace is fine, and the storyline is quite plausible. However, after the criminal is identified, I felt the story became a drag, and was filled with some totally avoidable plot twists.

Nevertheless, recommended for its thrill and action.

My favorite scene: the last scene... "how can i get this video".