2008 · thriller · crime · mystery
Untraceable
Directed by Gregory Hoblit1h 41m2008
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.
Our read: Untraceable (2008) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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