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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