Untraceable
Screen Gems | Release Date: January 25, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
11
Negative:
13
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38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The latest, Untraceable, owes everything to “Lambs,” and to “Se7en,” and to all the “Lambs” and “Se7en” knockoffs made by directors less talented than Jonathan Demme and David Fincher. In addition to being dull, the Portland, Ore. -set Untraceable is a monster hypocrite, wagging its finger at the mass audience’s appetite for strictly regimented, “creative” torture scenarios. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A wan version of the same old tired serial killer story, despite its updated milieu -- cyberspace. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
An abhorrent cyberthriller starring a compelling Diane Lane. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJanice Page
It's a warmed-over suspense thriller that's more disturbing than it is surprising or scary. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNathan Lee
Directed by Gregory Hoblit from a screenplay by a trio (a trio!) of whomevers, Untraceable hasn't the brains of a class-act psychothriller like "The Silence of the Lambs" (though it does reprise that film's titillating homophobia); worse yet, it lacks the balls to juice up the trashy verve of the "Saw" series. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
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 full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Tepid, borderline offensive cyber-serial killer thriller. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen Holden
You may view Untraceable, as I do, as a repugnant example of the voyeurism it pretends to condemn. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Talk about your pious frauds. I've got a better way to show your disgust for Internet scum: Don't see Untraceable. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This joyless thriller runs the gamut from unconscionable through unwatchable to unendurable. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
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 full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
As plain awful as Untraceable is, possibly the worst thing about it is that it pretends to mean something. Read full review
0
TimeRichard Corliss
Untraceable really is disgraceable. It's bad enough when a movie offers up atrocity scenes that would make the Nanking soldiers seem like Hannah Montana; it's repellent when the movie dresses up the sadism in a moral message that condemns the very weakness it is exploiting. Read full review
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