The FBI Cyber Crimes division hunts down vicious criminals online... but the most dangerous one is hunting them.
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 cyber crime, where Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) has 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.
Special Agent Matti
Untraceable started out as a digital version of Jigsaw from the Saw franchise but then it devolved into a farce when the characters began behaving out of (ahem) character: FBI agents hot on the tail of a vicious serial killer don't stop to visit a cyber date IRL instead of revealing the identity of the killer, nor do they knowingly get back into the car whose computer has been taken over by the baddie. This kind of plot stupidity is unforgivable, even when you take into account the fact that there are two (2) storywriters and three (3) screenwriters (one (1) repeated). Any film with that many people working on the script is in trouble from the outset because it shows that no-one knows how to fix the problems, so they're throwing in anyone with a copy of Word in the hope that something will magically come good.
The second rule of writing is: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Don't see this film: if you do, you will be disappointed.
The crime, thriller movie Untraceable is directed by Gregory Hoblit and stars Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke.
MA 15+ (Strong violence and themes)
100 minutes (1:40 hours)
Film: 24 April 2008
