Untraceable 2008
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: In addition to being dull, 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. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe Untraceable, a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: By now the hypocrisy of simultaneously condemning and exploiting the audience's sadism has become so commonplace in American movies it hardly seems noteworthy. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: This joyless thriller runs the gamut from unconscionable through unwatchable to unendurable. It's also unfathomable that two talented people, Diane Lane and her director, Gregory Hoblit, got themselves involved in such an unpromising enterprise. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Untraceable isn't unwatchable, but it's a pretty miserable experience, from a director who knows better. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: There's 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. Read more
Janice Page, Boston Globe: Hoblit and veteran cinematographer Anastas Michos try to darken the proceedings by giving us nocturnal characters and Portland at its grayest. But it's window dressing, just like the layers of computer geek-speak that can't disguise an analog-age plot. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: A diverting police procedural. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: 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. Read more
Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: Lane skillfully sells the tech-heavy script. But after a much-too-early reveal of the murderer's identity, the 'low battery' signal starts to flash on this film by thriller specialist Gregory Hoblit. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Untraceable often seems to go out of its way to tip off what's coming, so that it's hard to tell whether the film's writers are lazy, clumsy or just painfully obvious. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Untraceable wants us to deplore the amoral voyeurism of the cyberspace mobs, yet feeds off it at the same time. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Untraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: 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. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Untraceable has flaws, but this cat-and-mouse team is so hypnotic that all you do is sit there waiting while they deliver one big shock after another. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: From its obvious foreshadowing to Marsh's big PowerPoint presentation of the killer's cause-and-effect, Untraceable is a mite too traceable to get under the skin. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: An abhorrent cyberthriller starring a compelling Diane Lane, the film exploits the inhumanity of torture as it cynically condemns Internet rubberneckers (and by extension, moviegoers) for watching it online. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Untraceable engenders a reaction that is one part fascination, one part disappointment, and two parts frustration. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Untraceable is a horrifying thriller, smart and tightly told, and merciless. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Over and over again, Hoblit misses opportunities to make an engaging picture, instead giving us a merely pedestrian one. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: As plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It would be good to shrug off this film as an unwatchable mess, but sadly it is the work of skilled actors and a proficient crew. Read more
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: The makers of Untraceable don't have that high an opinion of you. Read more
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: Untraceable demonstrates, once again, how unnecessary it is for audiences actually to understand technical jargon. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Untraceable really is disgraceable. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: You know something ain't kosher when a movie purporting to offer a critique of sadistic voyeurism opens with a hand-rubbing scene of kitten abuse. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Untraceable is a satisfying slice of solidly crafted meat-and-potatoes filmmaking. Read more
Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Untraceable hasn't the brains of a class-act psychothriller like Silence of the Lambs, and lacks the balls to juice up the trashy verve of the Saw series. Stuck in the middle, it leaves everyone stranded, actors and audience alike. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: As Untraceable descends into the progressively more perverted territory, it begins to practice the very hypocrisy it condemns in its audience, engaging in the rancid voyeurism it pretends to abhor. Read more