46.2%
Based on 47 Reviews
Movie Info
Released:
January 25, 2008
Runtime:
1hr 40min
Director:
Gregory Hoblit
Writer:
Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker, Allison Burnett
Cast:
Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt
Rating:
R for grisly violence and torture, and some language.
Plot:
FBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal.
75.0% Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Untraceable is a horrifying thriller, smart and tightly told, and merciless.
75.0% San Antonio Express-News Larry Ratliff
Untraceable may not rank as one of the best serial-killer thrillers of all time, but it packs enough punch to hold your attention way past the whodunit point.
74.0% Boston Herald Stephen Schaefer
A smart thriller with one of the more satisfying wrap-ups in some time.
68.0% Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis
Is Unfaithful and Under the Tuscan Sun star Diane Lane just randomly picking movies that start with the letters U and N? On this evidence, quite possibly.
62.5% Hollywood.com Kit Bowen
With a very creepy premise about a serial killer using the Internet to kill his victims, Untraceable mostly delivers the chills, despite its conventionalities.
62.5% Houston Chronicle
Diane Lane is her usual watchable self, although the filmmakers have taken pains to dowdy her up so she doesn't look too glamorous.
62.5% Kansas City Star Robert W. Butler
Untraceable is a movie about an interesting idea that it’s afraid to face.
62.5% New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Untraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder.
62.5% San Jose Mercury News Bruce Newman
Untraceable is the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field of torture porn movies, although with Diane Lane as its star, it gives itself away as soft-core porn.
62.0% St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Holleman
Untraceable, a so-so thriller that should soon be available on video-store shelves.
60.0% Fort Worth Star-Telegram Christopher Kelly
The thrills this new movie offers may be cheap, but they're served up without fuss or fat. It's genre moviemaking the way it's supposed to be done.
60.0% Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
It gives away its villain too quickly and sums up the pursuit of that villain too glibly, but it's a well-acted, well-oiled thriller.
60.0% Providence Journal Michael Janusonis
Untraceable has elements of the Saw movies (although not quite as grisly) and even recalls the final terrifying woman-in-peril sequence from Silence of the Lambs.
56.0% Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Untraceable lambastes us for being amoral voyeurs as it panders to our baser instincts at the same time.
56.0% E! Online Matt Stevens
The pic masquerades as social commentary, condemning our bloodlust, but Untraceable unmasked is just another actioner making a buck off the bloodletting.
56.0% Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols
Gregory Hoblit's crime thriller Untraceable is a genuinely creepy film, though not in a No Country for Old Men kind of way. More in an overzealous-blog-comments kind of way, or a dude-on-the-bus-looking-at-me kind of way.
55.0% Coming Soon Edward Douglas
A blatantly derivative serial killer thriller that proceeds to tick off every single cliché of the genre as the filmmakers proudly show off how many times they've watched Se7en, Silence of the Lambs and Saw.
50.0% A.V. Club Keith Phipps
Taking some cues from the Saw series, director Gregory Hoblit lingers over the killer's elaborate deathtraps, then points a finger at the sadists who would want to look at anything so grisly.
50.0% Canoe.ca Liz Braun
Untraceable is the sort of psychological thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat, mostly so you can bolt the hell out of the theatre as soon as it ends.
50.0% Columbus Dispatch Melissa Starker
Untraceable seems to have gotten lost at some point, took a wrong turn on its way to becoming the next network procedural series and wound up on the big screen.
50.0% Denver Post Lisa Kennedy
The film teases and unnerves for 100 minutes with scenes of cold brutality. Then in a rush to the end, it tries to make it all better, or at least make it more complicated.
50.0% Metromix Chicago Matt Pais
Untraceable is less a whodunit than just a whocares, with a perp whose only grand statement is that he can find a way to torture people even though his budget can't accommodate Saw-style contraptions.
50.0% Newsday Jan Stuart
Untraceable wants us to deplore the amoral voyeurism of the cyberspace mobs, yet feeds off it at the same time.
50.0% Oregonian (Portland) Mike Russell
Untraceable is a serial-killer thriller revolving around computer hacking. Why does Hollywood persist in thinking that watching people squint at monitors while muttering about "encryptions" is exciting?
50.0% Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Barbara Vancheri
Somewhere in Untraceable, amid the computer jargon (Trojans, Backdoors, mirrors and lots of other stuff I didn't understand but now fear) and the gruesome deaths, there's a nifty notion for a thriller.
50.0% Salt Lake Tribune David Burger
The film's mild horror-movie tactics are perfect for those who like a good chill.
50.0% Toronto Star Philip Marchand
Untraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon.
50.0% TV Guide Ken Fox
Even worse than its hypocrisy, gratuitous homophobia and cheap proselytizing, the movie is dull.
44.0% Orange County Register Craig Outhier
It's a tut-tut piece of media criticism that wags a big, moralizing finger in our faces while delivering the basest sort of B-movie thrills.
40.0% Austin American-Statesman John DeFore
Indistinguishable from four out of five contemporary thrillers: full of unbelievable plot points ... and twists whose surprise factor is nullified by blatant foreshadowing.
37.5% Boston Globe Janice Page
Untraceable is neither suspenseful nor thrilling, and it's also not grisly or twisted enough for fans of mainstream torture porn.
37.5% Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Untraceable is a monster hypocrite, wagging its finger at the mass audience's appetite for strictly regimented, "creative" torture scenarios. This film is not really in a position to point a finger.
37.5% Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) Jeff Vice
"Untraceable?" "Unappetizing" is more like it -- or perhaps "unrealistic," "unconvincing" and/or "unexciting."
37.5% Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sue Pierman
Too bad the movie is put together by the numbers instead of being character-driven. Ultimately, Untraceable is a snuff film dressed up as a morality play.
37.5% Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Call it "torture porn" or call it "gorno" (gore + porno). Can we just agree to call a moratorium on movies like Untraceable?
37.5% Star-Ledger (Newark) Stephen Whitty
It's a torture-porn movie that preaches against torture-porn movies.
37.5% USA Today Claudia Puig
Untraceable has traces of Saw, Silence of the Lambs and Seven in its lineage, but is a wan version of the same old tired serial killer story, despite its updated milieu -- cyberspace.
30.0% Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
There is a good movie to be made about the power of the virtual mob, the ethical consequences of participating in it, the costs of free will. But Untraceable isn't it, not by a long shot.
30.0% IGN Todd Gilchrist
The film is a veritable laundry list of psychological thriller clichés, few of which are saved by the competent if unenthusiastic performances of Diane Lane, Billy Burke and Colin Hanks in lead roles.
25.0% Seattle Times Moira Macdonald
Untraceable, a nasty piece of work from director Gregory Hoblit, is guilty of wallowing in precisely what it pretends to condemn: torture porn.
25.0% Slant Magazine Nick Schager
The villain may be Untraceable, but it's easy to pin down the influences of Gregory Hoblit's serial killer snoozer. Saw, FeardotCom, and of course, Se7en are all part of the derivative film's lineage.
25.0% Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Colin Covert
If the makers of Untraceable had paid attention to the script they were filming, they might have argued themselves out of making the movie.
25.0% St. Paul Pioneer Press Chris Hewitt
Untraceable is a chiller that simultaneously condemns media violence and gets off on it.
25.0% New York Post Kyle Smith
The movie chides us for being a sick voyeuristic society, hungry for the sight of violence. The purity of this moral stance is somewhat clouded by the movie's habit of staging sick violent acts.
20.0% Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Untraceable renders the audience complicit in the film's violent shenanigans by virtue of watching the gore onscreen.
0.0% Rolling Stone Peter Travers
If hypocrisy was a crime in movies, Untraceable would be facing a firing squad.
0.0% San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
As plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something.
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