Re: Untraceable?

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 Ken from Chicago wrote:

>The conceit of the current movie, UNTRACEABLE is that the more people
>viewing a streaming website, the faster a victim dies, yet said website
is
>"untraceable".

[...]

>Or is there some factor I'm overlooking, some new tech that makes it
>conceivable? Or some element in the movie (that I haven't seen) that
>explains this? Or am I just overthinking a thriller / action flick?

Sounds to me like typical Hollywood hackery; throw in a few stock 
phrases such as "bouncing off proxy servers" and hope that the audience 
buys it.

What strikes me more about this movie -- which I hadn't heard of until 
your post -- is how similar the plot sounds to an episode of Millennium 
from a decade ago. Having just Googled to find the episode title ("The 
Mikado" if anyone's interested), I see I'm not the only one pointing 
this out.

Where has all the originality gone?

-- 
Kev
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