Based solely on the trailers, Untraceable is the first movie releasing this month that I’m really looking forward to. It opens this Friday and stars the talented Diane Lane (Hollywoodland, Must Love Dogs, Under the Tuscan Sun, Unfaithful) as FBI agent Jennifer Marsh. A clever serial killer is using the Internet to kill his victims. He has a device hooked up that increases the amount of a lethal injection proportionate to the number of people visiting the site to view the live video. (Yeah, I know. It sounds like a story line potentially rife with all kinds of technical inaccuracies. But it’s Diane Lane for crying out loud. And I’ve had a long-standing interest in FBI-related movies and TV shows.)

Also appearing in Untraceable are Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt and Peter Lewis.

Lane will be in two other movies this year: Jumper, and Nights in Rodanthe. Her 43rd birthday was yesterday.