Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe Untraceable, a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.
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01/25/08
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Untraceable (2008)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:6
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Despite Diane Lane's earnest effort, Untraceable manages to be nothing more than a run-of-the-mill thriller with a hypocritical message.
Theatrical Release:Jan 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $28,687,835
Synopsis: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (FRACTURE, PRIMAL FEAR), UNTRACEABLE follows F.B.I. cybercrimes specialist Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) as she attempts to track down a serial killer who brazenly displays... [More]
Starring: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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Top CriticThis 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.
01/25/08
Top CriticUntraceable feels sleazy and gratuitous.
01/25/08
Top CriticUntraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon.
01/25/08
Top CriticUntraceable really is disgraceable.
01/25/08
Top CriticAs plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something.
01/25/08
Top CriticUntraceable often seems to go out of its way to tip off what's coming, so that it's hard to tell whether the film's writers are lazy, clumsy or just painfully obvious.
01/25/08
Top CriticThe movie chides us for being a sick voyeuristic society, hungry for the sight of violence. The purity of this moral stance is somewhat clouded by the movie's habit of staging sick violent acts.
01/25/08
Top CriticUntraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder.
01/25/08
Top CriticA diverting police procedural.
01/25/08
Top CriticThe film teases and unnerves for 100 minutes with scenes of cold brutality. Then in a rush to the end, it tries to make it all better, or at least make it more complicated.
01/25/08
Top CriticHoblit and veteran cinematographer Anastas Michos try to darken the proceedings by giving us nocturnal characters and Portland at its grayest. But it's window dressing, just like the layers of computer geek-speak that can't disguise an analog-age plot.
01/25/08
Top CriticAn abhorrent cyberthriller starring a compelling Diane Lane, the film exploits the inhumanity of torture as it cynically condemns Internet rubberneckers (and by extension, moviegoers) for watching it online.
01/25/08
Top CriticThe makers of Untraceable don't have that high an opinion of you.
01/25/08
Top CriticUntraceable is a horrifying thriller, smart and tightly told, and merciless.
01/25/08
Top CriticOver and over again, Hoblit misses opportunities to make an engaging picture, instead giving us a merely pedestrian one.
01/24/08
Top CriticLane skillfully sells the tech-heavy script. But after a much-too-early reveal of the murderer's identity, the 'low battery' signal starts to flash on this film by thriller specialist Gregory Hoblit.
01/24/08
Top CriticBy now the hypocrisy of simultaneously condemning and exploiting the audience's sadism has become so commonplace in American movies it hardly seems noteworthy.
01/24/08
Top CriticIt would be good to shrug off this film as an unwatchable mess, but sadly it is the work of skilled actors and a proficient crew.
01/24/08
Top CriticIn addition to being dull, Untraceable is a monster hypocrite, wagging its finger at the mass audience's appetite for strictly regimented, 'creative' torture scenarios. This film is not really in a position to point a finger.
01/24/08
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