Today, I watched Untraceable (2008). It was a pretty good movie, overall, but truly, it seemed very bland, I guess... I can't find the right words right now.
Diane Lane plays a FBI agent that specializes in online predators of all kinds. Her partner is played by Colin Hanks and is a very likable character.
The threat in the film is a person who kidnaps people and then sets them up on the Internet where when the more people who sign onto the website, the faster the kidnapped person dies. The deaths are creative and gruesome. I'm not a huge fan of gore, but this is slightly tolerable. Gore is never tasteful though. Ever.
As a FBI agent, Diane Lane is slightly unbelievable. She seems terrified when the threat is directly upon her, without any backup. I guess someone, anyone, would be upset in that sort of situation, but an FBI agent should always be on top of their game, right? I mean, Dana Scully from The X-Files never got truly frightened about her surroundings, or have I just not seen enough X-Files?
The ending of this movie is what makes me angry. It's very cliff-hanging, I guess. There's no ending for the characters, really. It's what makes me think that this film was the movie-version of a Faye Kellerman novel. Or someone to that extent.
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