Special Agent Jennifer Marsh works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.
Untraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon.
– Philip Marchand,
Toronto Star,
25 Jan 2008
rotten:
Untraceable feels sleazy and gratuitous.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
25 Jan 2008
rotten:
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.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
25 Jan 2008
rotten:
Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe Untraceable, a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
25 Jan 2008
rotten:
You know something ain't kosher when a movie purporting to offer a critique of sadistic voyeurism opens with a hand-rubbing scene of kitten abuse.