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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Untraceable should have been more watchable.


Untraceable is part of a new breed of the horror sub genre, the shock thriller. Movies of this ilk are little more than paltry drills in pressing the boundaries of tolerable depictions of macabre violence in a public forum. The story, not being terribly original, takes place over the internet. Our heroine is a veteran agent in the FBI Cyber-Crimes Devision who works longs hours hunting down bad guys at night and is a loving, caring single mom by day. One night, the first night (after all it is a movie) she is presented with a potentially criminal website that beckons with the portal "Kill with Me?" Long boring story short, it turns out to be a super duper live streaming site that the FBI is powerless to shut down even with the eventual help of the NSA and probably a whole lot of other three lettered agencies to boot. The killer, well, kills on his site by having various types of torture devices hooked up to a site meter on his comodore 64. (or what ever PC was product placed, I don't remember) The more people who log on, the faster each victim dies. The acting was poor, the direction lack luster and the ending too preachy. Only watch this one if you like watching people "semi-humanely" tortured to death in our new millennium of Political Correctness and enlightenment.

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