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.
Ben Walters, Time Out
Untraceable
A cyber killer has finally found the perfect accomplice: You.
2008 · 1h 41m · R
Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Gregory Hoblit
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Gregory Hoblit Director
- Diane Lane as Agent Jennifer Marsh
- Billy Burke as Eric Box
- Colin Hanks as Griffin Dowd
- Joseph Cross as Owen Reilly
- Mary Beth Hurt as Stella Marsh
- Peter Gray Lewis as Richard Brooks
- Perla Haney-Jardine as Annie Haskins
- Christopher Cousins as David Williams
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Arthur James Elmer
- Brynn Baron as Mrs. Miller
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
16%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe Untraceable, a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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
Rotten
Untraceable feels sleazy and gratuitous.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Rotten
Untraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon.
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
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