Title: Untraceable (2008)
Genre: drama, thriller
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Written by: Robert Fyvolent (screenplay), Mark Brinker (screenplay), Allison Burnett (screenplay)
Actors: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks
aStore: DVD, Blu-Ray, digital
The first time I saw a trailer for this back in 2008, I thought it was going to be another one of those stupid “Killer guy has a website and everyone that visits it *mysteriously* dies” type of movies, but I was pleasantly surprised.
I bought the DVD on sale and wasn’t really expecting too much when I watched it. Sure, there’s lots of stupid stuff going on and you can totally be like “Why the hell would she get back in the car?” But come on, it’s a movie, it’s for entertainment, and I honestly really enjoyed it.
You have a guy killing people on his website, building crafty machines that use the hit counter to decide how long someone is going to live. So of course everyone in America was going to check out the site, they got told not to!
It’s kind of a grim commentary about the kind of people we are. We might not go out and kill someone personally, but we have no problem taking a peek at a dead body. Wasn’t that the whole premise of that coming of age story “Stand By Me” where someone asks “Do you wanna see a dead body?” and everyone unanimously replied, “Hell yeah!”
If you suspend some of your belief in the FBI and the police being able to track some guy down, this is actually a pretty good popcorn movie. There’s just enough ick — guy gets killed by sunlamp, guy gets melted by sulfuric acid — that you root for the good guys, and there’s some fairly clever death machines … Read the rest “RE MOVIE: Untraceable [drama, thriller]”
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