Untraceable
Untraceable stars Diane Lane as Jennifer Marsh, a single mom agent with the Portland Oregon branch of the FBI. On some kind of stress duty following the death of her husband killed in the line of duty she’s become a computer geek out of necessity but feels quite at home with her naturally nerdy co-workers who spend their days busting cyber criminals. The job gets intense however when a super hacker with a grudge starts torturing innocent people to death on the net in real time - a process exacerbated by the number of hits his “KillWithMe” website gets as ghoulish voyeurs by the millions log on to watch. Of course he’s evil genius enough to make his IP address impossible to trace but as Marsh and her team begin the gradually unlock the mystery they themselves become the target of the cyber terrorist who is able to hack into their laptops and even their GPS systems. Although the set up for the final confrontation between Marsh and the techno-nasty doesn’t compute, the rest of the scenario is plausible while making a subtle statement about society’s growing detachment and is intense enough to make me think twice about ordering the “On Star” option with my next vehicle.