Product Details

• Actors: Diane Lane, Zachary Hoffman, Joseph Cross, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks
• Directors: Gregory Hoblit
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Portuguese (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
• Dubbed: French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00151QYXU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,152 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Untraceable" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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Untraceable fuses Saw with The Net in a perverse yet moralistic story about a psychopath who broadcasts acts of torture over the internet--all to better reveal the twisted underbelly of the American public, who hasten the victims' deaths simply by looking at the website. FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane, her mature-sexy mojo tamped down but still simmering in the corners of her eyes and the nape of her neck) launches a cyberhunt for the killer, only to find herself and her team caught up in his murderous scheme. It's hard to make tapping on a keyboard and staring at a computer screen exciting, but Untraceable does its best by making Marsh and her cybercrimebusting partner (Colin Hanks, King Kong) rattle off cascades of jaunty techno-jargon and do impressive bits of long-distance surveillance. The movie aims for the audience that flocked to see Ashley Judd in thrillers like Kiss the Girls and Double Jeopardy, but it's hard to say if fans of Lane's romantic fare like Under the Tuscan Sun or Must Like Dogs will enjoy the queasy violence. Nonetheless, the cast--including Mary Beth Hurt (The World According to Garp) as Marsh's mother--does a solid job and the movie clips along at an aggressive pace, maintaining tension throughout. --Bret Fetzer

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Product Description

Within the FBI there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) and Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks) have seen it all - until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining May 29, 2008

By Romina Wilcox VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

This movie has lots of actions, tense, as you would expect from a cyber-movie. The main plot is about a psychotic man who uses his taser to get the people to his "dungeon" and display the torture online. I thought the plot was brilliant. The way he does his torture where the lights increases as the viewers increases which practically baked the victim; the use of chemical (forgot what it was) on the next person; and the voice changer so the psycho can lure his victim - I thought those were all unique and high-concept.

Now adays, though, Feds can easily trace the IP address. In this movie, they have difficulty tracing the IP address of the user. I'm sure that is why the title is Untraceable. The computer forensic folks are a lot savier now. It would have added more mystery if the audience does not know who the person behind the keyboard. That would have given them something to solve.

I laughed at the ending, though. When the heroin broke loose of her captivity where she was tied upside down, one of the users posted a question: "How can I download this scene." (something like this). I thought that was hilarious as it shows us our obsession with live Interent action.

Again, this movie is entertaining enough in a different way. I would still recommend seeing it. Cold Eyes

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Untraceable May 16, 2008

By C. A. Luster TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:DVD

Based on reviews I expected something like "Saw", but that wasn't the case. This wasn't a horror, it was a crime drama like "Bone Collector". An FBI investigative team tries to track down a murderer that has a website tied to the method of murder. The problem is he hides his tracks to well on the internet. His murders are conducted based on the number of hits the website recieves. In one case the more people visit the website, the water the person he kidnapped is soaking in turns to battery acid. So this is not for the squemish or young. This is also the one thing I have trouble with in the movies given perception. Being a computer geek for over twenty-four years I know if you want someone shut down for killing people, there is a way including going to their ISP if not the networks or IPs they're bouncing through. That aside it was a pretty decent movie. In fact scarier when you consider the popularity of public websites for people to post videos. One can't help wonder if people at least initially would think something like this was a hoax and tell all their friends to check it out. Hence one facet of this is feasible. The texted graphic comments we see would then be understandable as well as I have seen people make comments like those about online game characters. When they don't think it is real, but just fake with acting and props, then you can see why it is believable. The acting was good, the directing, story, and music were all well done. Overall I would recommend it if you like movies like "Along Came a Spider" and "Kiss the Girls". Good quality DVD with decent replayability.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible! Just terrible! May 23, 2008

By Paper Tiger

Format:DVD

Without disclosing much details, let me just use two scenes to illustrate my point:

1. the opening, when the agent identifies a suspect who uses his neighbor's wireless router to access other people's bank accounts. Now, how does she identifies the suspect? By guessing. He's a programmer, he's a renter, and the most hilarious one, he's registered for 3 hand guns and 2 assault rifles. Let me pause, owning firearm is protected by the constitution, and people, who own, especially "register," their firearm are the ultimate good guys - you cannot buy a gun from grocery store. you must go through a serious background and criminal check first. In fact, more than half of American families own firearm.

Obviously, without any probable cause, the agent orders a raid. That must be sweet!

2. Some time down the trail, the agent claims that the bad guy got into her wireless network and got into her computer etc. OK, I thought the agent was a computer wiz who worked for FBI cyber lab. any half brained IT person would know how to secure their wireless connection, not to mention how to fortify their computers, but a FBI agent doesn't? any decent security would prevent even the most determined hackers - they don't try to break down your firewall and security, they do social engineering. Even they break down the firewall, it's virtually impossible to break in even a well firewalled Windows XP... oh, you are not running Linux, Ms FBI?

Should have at least hired me to be the technical adviser.

Oh, FBI cannot shut down someone's website??? You are joking, right? Even an 8 year old knows that. Just Google it if you don't know!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Lame Movie that has no thrills July 4, 2008

By Karen Baker

Format:DVD

I have just three questions for the writers of this movie: 1.-How can a FBI computer crimes agent only use the computer three maybe four times in a movie about the internet?; 2.-How does a FBI computer crimes agent not have a secure wireless network and also lets her seven just turned eight year old daughter download anything off the net; and finally, 3.-As a woman, an FBI agent, and the widow of a cop how does she not close her curtains at night in her house? I mean the killer just sat outside her house and watched her. As I write this I've just thought of another question that came to me. Why would she have secure FBI files on her laptop and not a firewall to be found. And please enough of the troubled but brillant killers. A little thought and research would have done this movie well. Did she not have any friends who were hackers that could have helped out. What's up with talking on unsecure phone lines when you know you are dealing with a computer whiz. Enough. Just a really dumb and lazily written movie. For a good cyber-crime thriller read the Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver.