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The Bargain Nexus - Untraceable
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List Price: $28.95
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Diane Lane, Zachary Hoffman, Joseph Cross, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks
Directed By: Gregory Hoblit
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396191341
Format: AC-3
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Running Time: 101
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-01-25
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Summary: The Premise was good and offered some food for thought!
Comment: "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.
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Summary: Undeniably Mediocre
Comment: Untraceable? You mean UNreal and UNbelievable. Everything that's been done before is done all over again and done badly. The dialogue is one of the worst, you'll find yourself cringing over some of the lines said in places where no one in their right mind would utter in the particular situation. Even worse cringing over how poorly acted some of the supporting cast delivers those lines. The saving grace? Diane lane for one, does a good job at pulling it off and keeping us interested as well as just the right sprinkle of suspense to keep you peeled to the screen long enough to get to the end debating on if it was worth it or not.
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Summary: I want a server that robust!
Comment: I understand I have to suspend my disbelief with movies like this, but I wasn't interested enough in the characters to make it worth the effort. And it's not about the people tuning in; a troll through the videos on the internet make it obvious that people would watch it, though I have a hard time believing there were 12 million viewers and the load doesn't crash the site. It's more about the FBI's inability to take down a website. I find that... highly unlikely. Still, I could have overlooked it (goodness knows I'm no computer expert, perhaps it's possible, but there are plenty of governments out there blocking a lot more than a single website...) had the rest of the story been compelling or interesting enough to make me care. If I cared at all about the characters in the story. But I didn't. They were flat and boring and I honestly cared more about his first victim than I did all the others put together.
I suppose there was some high, moral message to the story, in the end, but it was so smothered in... fluff and tedium that it lost any real meaning. It felt like Saw or Hostel without the gore (okay, there was a little bit of icky, but nothing compared to the levels of those movies). Which leave you with a vague plot, some action sequences, and a lukewarm, predictable ending. It's fine for an evening when there's nothing on, or for watching with a group of friends (and throwing popcorn at the screen), but overall you won't be missing out much if you pass it by.
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Summary: Watch out now, take care, beware
Comment: This piece of hokum should come with a disclaimer about not taking it too seriously.
Seriously, although there are a number of issues arising from this movie, not least of which is how a laptop's files would have information about the home's plough, but the macabre interest the general population has in watching people suffer and die, you cannot really take this movie as anything more that shock and gore entertainment.
I am reminded of a science fiction story where viewers participate in how a subject feels whilst undergoing difeerent physical stimuli. One leading exponent of these empathetic experiences is eventually made to suffer his own experience while millions share in his death.
The scarcely credible adventure is certainly worth a watch but does not stand up to any sort of scruting.
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Summary: Another dose of poison for our society
Comment: This movie provides a look into the world of a very disturbed person who tortures people and displays this over the internet. Is this really something we all need to watch? Don't we have quite enough real life tortures of the human body and spirit going on in our world? Why is this considered "entertainment"? It is sad to see in one generation how we have gone from the Turner Classic type movies (Clark Gable, etc, etc,) to movies where watching someone slowly tortured on a website is a possibility. Sure torture has been around forever, but it was never in my home and in my mind like this movie delivers. I regret having seen it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 cybercrime where special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) and Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks) have 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 101 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER Rating: R UPC: 043396191341 Manufacturer No: 19134
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