Friday, August 2, 2013

Untraceable

Untraceable staring Diane Lane. 

A much better movie than I expected to see. 

 It's a typical cops versus robbers story and has the standard cliches that accompany those types of story lines, but what it doesn't have here is the standard cliches that the Hollywood system seem determined to bestow on these types of movies. For that I was thankful. I kept waiting for the "love" angle to show itself sometime in this movie, but the director and writer never let the story line go that way, which was a good thing, because it would have betrayed the main character and took the story in a direction it didn't need to go. Instead they let the "love" angle deepen the main character's past and character. 

It was also refreshing to see a movie that had a strong main character, female role, without it being demeaned by feminist or political ideologies. They just let the female character be herself and be a real person and Diane Lane did a good job of portraying the character's psychology and inner self. Another thing I liked about this movie was that it proved a movie doesn't have to have a huge star to be good and that if a movie can get a bunch of good character actors to be in it the result can make any poor story better and a good story close to great just by the caliber of actors involved. The guy who played the lead cop and Colin Hanks did a great job of selling this movie and making it enjoyable. 

The end result was a good movie if your looking for a good cops and robbers thriller to pass the night. I would also say this movie is a Silence of the Lambs done lite.  It has nowhere near the depth or seriousness of psychological analysis as Lambs, nor is the direction and storyline as tightly focused as Lambs.  But then this movie isn't trying to be that movie.  It's just a good movie to pass the time.


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