Untraceable This one’s an FBI suspense thriller in the vein of Silence of the Lambs and Seven. This one is as brutal as either of those, but not quite up to their “quality”, if that is the appropriate word. It stars Diane Lane as an FBI cyber specialist, catching predators and hackers by being better with computers than they are. I went to this one for two reasons. One—it looked pretty good in the trailers, and two—Diane Lane is my number one favorite world-class gorgeous actress. Be still my heart.
I liked this one. It isn’t perfect, but the suspense is good, keeps you guessing, and there is a lot of super high-tech babble that might have been genuine or might not—I have no idea. There were a few times I thought they were making the bad guy omniscient. He hacked into everything-cell phones, On Star, FBI computers, etc.
The crime in this semi-cerebral thriller is diabolical. Someone is abducting people and torturing them while streaming the live video to the web. Here’s the clincher: the more people who log on to watch, the faster whatever is being done to the victims kills them. Which makes millions of us accessories to first degree murder. Nice touch, eh? The killers skills are a little too mad to be believable, and his ability to plot, plan, and execute (get it?) is Olympian, but it still manages to entertain in that sick, self-loathing kind of way. And you get to watch Diane Lane work her craft and be beautiful and stuff. Who needs a plot?
It’s rated R, for adult content and language. Nita would have loved the suspense and mystery and hated the crime and stuff. It was okay. They tried to make Lane look like a regular forty-something single mom but it’s impossible. She way too hot.
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