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Starring:
Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt, Tyrone Giordano, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dan Callahan, Joseph Cross, Betty Moyer, Todd Robinson, Gunter Simon, Steve Kaminsky, Gray Eubank, Billy Burke, Katie O'Grady, Daniel Liu, Peter Lewis, Jodi Altendorf, Tim De Zarn, Jeff Mills, Erin Carufel, Gregory P. Smith, Ryan Deal, John Breen, Jamal N. Qutub, Ryan Hopkins, Brian Benjamin, Jeff Mills, Alan Winston
Directed By:
Gregory Hoblit
Written By:
Allison Burnett, Mark Brinker, Robert Fyvolent
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Untraceable (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 15th, 2008
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A lot of people had dogged on this movie, complaining about the sexed-down look of Diane Lane and the trite and hard-to-believe storyline. (The capability of someone being able to set up a website that couldn't be shut down, yada yada... I'm no computer genius.)
In reality, this isn't all that bad of a flick IF (and I emphasize IF) you examine what it was trying to tell you from the heart. That being, we have come to live in a world which thrives off the misery and despair of others, making death and humiliation profitable for not just the big people anymore, but for anyone with access to a computer and a cell phone camera. (Think about those girls from Florida who beat the sh*t out of a fellow cheerleader who was supposed to be their friend, with the intention of posting it on YouTube so that she would be embarrassed.)
However, even if you can see what it was trying to teach us a lesson from, it's hard to find after the movie degrades slowly into a typical wannabe thriller, complete with the complaint that they've un-sexied Diane Lane (yes, that phenomenon is hard to overlook). The characters start acting and sounding like something out of a CSI episode, devaluing the message because it eventually evolves into an advertisement for what it was supposed to be condemning.
It could have been quite a good movie if it hadn't catered to exactly the crowd that it was looking down its nose at (those people on the web who make sites/images/videos viral).
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 | Lark
May 16, 2008 8:12 AM
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I agree wholeheartedly with your review. Adam & I saw this in the theater and while I started off liking it....I definitely got a bad taste in my mouth about midway through.
Side note: Is it WRONG to like Colin Hanks? |
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May 16, 2008 10:00 AM
(sidenote: he's too doughy for me)