: Untraceable
I was expecting this to be dreadful, mostly because the premise is so technically ludicrous. But to my surprise it’s not that bad. The best thing is no doubt the presence of Diane Lane, who rises above the ordinary script and silly plot. Another good thing is that the film is set in Portland, Oregon, which was unexpected and rather cool. The plot is absurd — a murderer is killing victims live on an “untraceable” website and the more people who tune in, the faster the victim dies. But once you get past the illogic (20+ million people tuning in to see live streaming video — we’re talking Google-sized bandwidth that can’t be traced?) the film does have an interesting point or two about our voyeristic culture. Say it wasn’t a serial killer but a Middle Eastern terrorist killing Americans live on the web — would we tune in? Still, this is a gimmicky film that can’t escape that, but it’s decent enough and not nearly as unwatchable as I expected.
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