Untraceable (1 1/2 stars)
Gregory Hoblit . 100 minutes. Rated R. Diane Lane , Billy Burke , Colin Hanks . Directed by
Following pretty much every cliché known to the serial-killer genre, Hoblit has made his share of passable-to-more-than-passable thrillers, here he and his three screenwriters generate essentially no suspense, showing us the killer early on and then having Lane 's FBI agent solve the whole case in one rushed, exposition-heavy scene. Instead of genuine tension, we get cheap gross-outs ripped off from movies like Untraceable has its particular psychopath broadcasting his grisly killings online, with the speed at which his victims die determined by how many sickos (just like the people who watch this movie!) log on to his website. Although Hostel , making Untraceable into torture porn for housewives.
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