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Gregory Hoblit Starring
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The FBI has a unit dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the Internet. Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane lane and Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks) are the experts performing this job. The are able to quickly find these computer bad doers and shut them down. Unfortunately a vicious predator sets up a website that becomes a theater for the world displaying death and destruction online. This wacko sets up a system where the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. UNTRACEABLE becomes a game of cat and mouse where the agents hunt him down, while the killer seeks both of them out to put them into his game of death. UNTRACEABLE is an excellent suspense thriller. The cast is uniformly good, with Diane Lane doing her normal solid job of a single mother trying her best to keep the net clean. Billy Burke is likeable and I appreciate the movie didn't force his character to have sex with the Diane Lane character. That sort of thing would usually be in most films but this one smartly avoids that cliché. Colin Hanks definitely has most of his dad's features and I did like the way he played his computer geek part with a heart. Joseph Cross is way better than you'd imagine as the Internet psychopath with a plan. Gregory Hoblit could be one of the most underrated directors working in the suspense genre. Add this trophy of a movie to his storied filmmography that includes PRIMAL FEAR, FREQUENCY and his ownership of 9 Primetime Emmy Awards and his Outstanding Directing Awards from the Director's Guild of America. I absolutely loved that this film was shot in scenic Portland, Oregon. It's great seeing places outside the normal LA, New York city locales. I'd even go on to see the lush locale is an unmentioned character in the film. Christopher Young creates another subtle score that underscores the tension and drama. Sony has put together a thorough list of Special Features that include: Audio Commentary with Director Gregory Hoblit, Producer Hawk Koch and Production Designer Paul Eads. The 4 Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes were exactly what I hope for in a film this good. The consist of: Tracking Untraceable, Untraceable: The Personnel Files, The Blueprint of Murder, The Anatomy of Murder. One hundred and one creepy minutes of drama.
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