Untraceable
By Cory Peynado, Blockbuster.co.uk

“You know if no one was watching right now, you'd just be sitting in water. But the whole world wants to watch you die, and they don't even know you”

A darker side to the Internet is yet again exposed in the spine tingling new thriller 'Untraceable'. Diane Lane plays an FBI agent on the hunt for a hi-tech killer who uses an impenetrable website as a tool to end his victims lives.

Just what do you do when you have someone to find but they have made themselves completely untraceable? For me it’s nothing new, this same question pops up usually a week after I’ve taken a girl out on a date, but what about when it’s the police trying to find a calculated psychotic killer… then things get a bit more complicated.

Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) is an agent working for the FBI cyber crimes division. She tracks down Internet criminals and leads the authorities straight to their door. A new website pops up called killwithme.com, that features a real time streamed video of someone being killed. The more people tune in, the faster the victim dies.

Jennifer is tasked to track down this killer, but the killer proves to be… you guessed it, untraceable. Even the best resources they have are not able to infiltrate this new and deadly threat. What’s more frustrating for the people who are trying to stop this criminal, is that once the word is out and the site broadcasts a new victim, hoards of visitors are still logging on.

Maybe its to check if it’s a hoax, or maybe to see how someone could actually pull this off but what ever the reason, this criminal seems to have no problems getting traffic through, hence, the victims are losing their lives a lot faster.

Jennifer takes on the impossible task of finding this cyber criminal and shutting down their operation but as she soon learns, her dependency on computers and modern day technology can just as easily be used against her and the same tools that she depends on so much can be more of danger to her than she realises.

Although this may offer nothing new in the way of narrative or twists, it’s certainly pretty good at keeping the viewer on edge. The technical aspects of the film are done with professionalism and the locations and atmosphere created by the ambitious camera shots of the city all lend to a well-told modern Thriller.

Also having a movie where the killer uses more than a big sharp knife was a nice break. I think people are going to like this movie, not so much for covering new ground but for doing so well at getting the regular stuff right.

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