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Untraceable (2008)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 145
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 122

Despite Diane Lane's earnest effort, Untraceable manages to be nothing more than a run-of-the-mill thriller with a hypocritical message.

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 25

Despite Diane Lane's earnest effort, Untraceable manages to be nothing more than a run-of-the-mill thriller with a hypocritical message.

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Movie Info

A serial killer with a sickening knack for showmanship and a keen sense of technological know-how sets up a graphic website to taunt the FBI and display his gruesome handiwork in this dark thriller directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear and Frequency) and starring Diane Lane. As a cybercimes investigator on the frontline of the war against virtual criminals, Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Lane) thought she had seen it all. She realizes just how wrong she is, however, when she learns of a

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense

Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker

May 13, 2008

$28.7M

Sony/Screen Gems

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All Critics (149) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (126) | DVD (17)

Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe Untraceable, a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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This joyless thriller runs the gamut from unconscionable through unwatchable to unendurable. It's also unfathomable that two talented people, Diane Lane and her director, Gregory Hoblit, got themselves involved in such an unpromising enterprise.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
Wall Street Journal
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Untraceable feels sleazy and gratuitous.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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Untraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Untraceable really is disgraceable.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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As plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Untraceable is prototype Internet conspiracy drivel, with a hackneyed plot years too late and a simple premise of good cops and innocents against sickos.

October 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Cookie cutter police procedural with a Hostel tinge.

November 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment
Oscar Guy

Neither terrifying nor inspiring.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Screen International | Comment
Screen International

While certainly compelling in terms of drawing you into the story, Untraceable has a number of nagging narrative flaws.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
Q Network Film Desk

If you aren't a fan of scary thrillers, you're going to want to give this one a wide berth. But if you're aching for your next dose of suspense drama adrenaline, Untraceable may just do the trick.

September 8, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment

Previsível e desinteressante, tenta contornar a trama clichê com cenas que investem na violência gráfica, mas sem sucesso.

July 10, 2008 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Violent torture thriller puts blame on the media.

July 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Bah! What a lame-o thriller.

June 6, 2008 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | Comment
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Untraceable will have steam for a little while and then it is just going to die down and become the $5.99 movie at Walmart.

June 1, 2008 Full Review Source: WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Untraceable

Im not a big gan of the Saw type movies as one of my friends compared this too but being that i work in fraud and i see a lot of cybercrime this perked me up. Diane Lane is awesome as alwasys and it was a good plot. Not horrible as some have said but not unwatchable either.

June 21, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Perhaps not quite as impressive on the second viewing of this film, due to the high number of films created around similar scenarios, the online killer has perhaps struck far too many times. Having said that this was slightly more Thriller than Horror and Diane Lane was a likeable lead, plus there was more of a

February 10, 2008
76Majikat

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