Movie Review - Untraceable

I'll start by saying the idea for this film isn't an original one. Yes, it was done in Millennium. It was done in a Uk show MANY years before Millennium ever thought of it though. And I'm sure I've seen another movie (British Indy made) do this subject as well. Basically we've got a psycho killer using the internet to kill people. You've got a female FBI agent working in computer crimes whose stupid enough to be running a wireless network at home and doesn't seem to have educated her daughter towards downloads, Trojans, spyware or anything else.

You'd think she'd at least have all remote access features turned off on her home machine? You'd also think at 8 years old her daughter would have taught not to leave the house in her pyjamas, especially if it appears someones filming the house live from the outside. Clearly the very stupid apple doesn't fall very far from the extremely stupid tree. Her partner getting caught and killed is pretty dire to be honest. How did the killer even get a sample of the girlfriends voice? The partner had only met her once.

To be honest the killers actual motive for killing the 2 people related to his dad is an extremely tenuous and weak link at best. He has NO motive to kill the FBI guy at all. He knows it's going to lead to his eventual capture. The Female FBI agent is a truly stupid idiot with no brain, having called in for help, she's told a police car is coming then she returns to her hijacked car and is captured (obviously). The trouble there is once the killer takes her car they can track it anywhere using the Onstar system that's built into it (whether he'd hacked it or not they could still trace the car - a fact they seemed to overlook).

The "he disabled the car computer" line, that's an incredibly huge cop-out on the writers part there. The fact that the killer is stupid enough to have parked under the bridge where the police can see him is an even huger cop-out. By now the writer is admitting "I haven't got any ideas so I'm going to spoon feed you the ending no matter how awful it is". The idea he took her to her own house to kill her is a super weak idea and obviously she was going to escape. Why he was talking about poisoning her then started feeding her into a shredder? Very weak ending to a generally awful film that wasn't even an original idea or original genre. Done miles better in things like Saw or Cube.