I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A Masterpiece!

For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Lonely female widowed feisty ageing FBI internet detective tracks an elusive killer who stages online murders for the titillation of the irresponsible masses. But as she stares into the abyss, the abyss stares into her ...I wish the last bit of that description were true, but this story is nuance free. A cynical, smug celebration of an elite appointed to control the great unwashed. A cop has a hunch, a supposition, draws an inference - send in the SWAT team! Smash down them doors! No sense of the truth that policing generates crime. Instead the concept is Silence Of The Lambs meets electronic media manipulation with CSI precision, and the characterisation is all wooden, with none of the self-reflective doubt that made Silence so great.Acting and pace are good, music standard. The daughter sub plot is pointless. At least the cast refrained from chanting USA! USA! before shooting the crap out of everyone in range.

Silence of the Lambs meets Saw in this contrived hi-tech serial killer thriller starring Diane Lane as Jennifer Marsh, an F.B.I. Cyber Crimes agent investigating a website called Killwithme.com, which streams live video of people being tortured and killed by a psycho in his basement. The more people who log on to the site, the quicker the victim dies!Morbid curiosity and internet access has led me to see some pretty disturbing stuff in the past, but I would definitely draw the line at watching a murder, and I trust that most people would do likewise. The makers of Untraceable, on the other hand, assume that the masses would have no such qualms about watching live footage of people being killed, even if doing so made them complicit in the crime. It doesn't say much about their faith in humanity.Thank heavens, then, that our every click on the world-wide-web is being monitored — or so the authorities would dearly like us to believe: Untraceable is thinly veiled propaganda for the F.B.I. designed to scare the public into behaving themselves online. It kinda backfires, though, by unintentionally portraying the organisation as being full of incompetents: while millions log on to see innocent victims being bled to death, burnt to a crisp, and melted in acid, the F.B.I. fail to make any headway in blocking the site, but do manage to get two of their own people trapped by the killer (F.B.I. agents are clearly not trained to look in the back seat of their car). Doh!Despite a reasonable central performance from Diane Lane and a few effectively disgusting death scenes, Untraceable fails thanks to its dubious message—that most people are morally bankrupt and need to be policed—and a silly script full of iffy technological nonsense that only gets more and more preposterous as it progresses (the finalé is absolutely hilarious!).

I tried.I really tried but this movie was made for invoking shock...nothing more. Firstly, this review is full of Spoilers so don't read if you want to be surprised by this cinematic masterpiece. The portrayal of impotent law enforcement and an "cybercop" that shifts seamlessly from investigating this gruesome killer to being a perfect single mom was seriously unrealistic. The killings were elaborate, too elaborate to be believed. Kind of like when Goldfinger tied James Bond up to a block and tried to cut him up with an industrial laser. This killer would have to have pretty deep pockets and serious engineering skills. I don't know because I stopped watching right around the Sulfuric Acid scene. The acting was just too far below the bar to swallow. It's as if the actors just mailed in their performances, saving their true ability for another movie. I'm serious. This movie stunk.

A really typical crime thriller starring Diane Lane as FBI agent Jennifer Marsh, who is attempting to hunt down an untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet; the more views his videos get, the more danger his victims get into.With a movie named "Untraceable," it sounds appealing and makes you think some crook is committing nefarious activities through the computer or something, or spying on people through unknown entities, making his whereabouts virtually untraceable until the very end. However, this film ultimately just turns out to be another story about a cop trying to chase down a killer, with some action and a cat-and-mouse game to boot, but with no tension built-up and with cheesy acting. ***spoiler ahead*** And, posting live videos of victims on the Internet and having them get into deeper trouble from the more views it gets? It makes you lose hope for humanity, thinking that people would view live victims on the internet, knowing that it would be detrimental to the victims' health, just for the fun of it. Makes you wonder who these computer-savvied young punks are.The ending is abrupt, not really action-packed or adrenaline-pumping. It's just a really, really typical action thriller.Grade D-