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Untraceable
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Price: $3.99

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It is bad…
This movie was bad and the story line was bad. Unfortunately the couple of scene was horrible. Anyway this movie was out of joy. It’s complicated.
the story was too short. It isn’t cool movie.

The Premise was good and offered some food for thought!
“Untraceable” is about Special Agent Jennifer Marsh, who is assigned to the Cybercrime Task Force Unit of the FBI. While monitoring hackers and other cyber crimes, she stumbles across a website that invites people to “killwithme”. Therefore as the death count rises, so does the boldness of his actions and the motive for his senseless killings. What I found interesting about the movie was the entire premise of “if given a chance, would you watch, even if it meant someone would die, events unfolding on-line”? Would knowing that your mere actions would result in someone’s death, stop you from watching or prevent you from clicking “enter” with your mouse? Maybe I analyzed it all too much, but based on what I know of our society and its need to know and my belief that most people are voyeurs, I think that people would tune in. Think about it, we live in a world of technology (blackberries, palms and PDAs) and reality television. How many people dial up to watch the ridiculous or simply watch things that they know are private? How many people dial up to watch Big Brother After Hours? Afterall, we live in a society where we want to view sex and or violence, even if on some level we know it isn’t right, but we are curious. So hopefully that kind of explains why I gave this movie “3*s” because underneath it all, I think it offered food for thought.

Good, but could have been better
Gripping no doubt but flaws and absurd incidents mar this film. The ending of the film seemed a bit too abrupt. In the scene where Diane’s car is hacked it was only obvious that something sinister was going to happen. When Diane returns to her car she inspects it very carelessly. In fact she had just seen a human figure near her vehicle. This scene was poorly done. After losing her close associate to the killer, detective Box visits her and buys her dinner. After a while the next scene shows Diane getting out of the bed with Box sleeping in the bed beside her. Without any romance this scene was absurd and was totally unnecessary. Box sleeping in a nearby couch would have made a very big difference instead.

The good points are Diane Lane’s good acting and the plot. In today’s world of easy to access information you get the feeling of how internet viewers are no different than the spectators of the Colosseium. At least the spectators of the Coliseum weren’t voyeurs. The hackers and viewers of the internet and how we have sleuths people tracking these hackers and even outsmarting them was well done. Christopher Young’s good background music is also worth mentioning.

And finally don’t forget to check out the killer’s site in your web browser. You will be pleasantly surprised.