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Missing (2023)
This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.
Missing has scenes of glitching screens with moments of TV static that create strong strobe effects. The opening production company logos are all separated by this effect. There are two scenes showing rapidly-flashing cameras, and two with emergency vehicle strobe lights at night.
There is a lot of handheld camera work in this film, shot on smartphones. One full scene is filmed from the point of view of a wrist watch, with arm swinging and other shaking at unusual angles.
Flashing Lights: 8/10. Motion Sickness: 9/10.
TRIGGER WARNING: There are scenes of intense abuse from an intimate partner, including threats, insults, and physical violence. Kidnapping is depicted in this film. The main character vomits on-screen in one of the first scenes, looking visibly nauseous for several seconds before it happens.
Image ID: A promotional poster for Missing
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moviemosaics · 9 months
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Missing
directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, 2023
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sweetsmellosuccess · 1 year
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There is, apparently now, a "Searching" universe, a world in which beloved family members suddenly disappear, leaving worried relatives to pore over their internet footprint, sleuthing through all their digital touchstones until they can be recovered.
I speak, of course, about "Searching," Aneesh Chaganty's surprisingly engaging 2018 film, which followed the anguished trials of a widowed dad (John Cho), after his teenage daughter suddenly disappears, using all the tricks of the internet age -- Google, chatrooms, IG images, emails, texts, maps, et al. -- to track her down in time for a rescue.
Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick's film "Missing" actually opens with re-created shots of the last film's conclusion, taken from an episode of a fictional TV show called "Unfiction," a true-crime reality show, watched by June (Storm Reid), a teen whose own father, James (Tim Griffin), passed away when she was little, leaving her with a single-parent mother, Grace (Nia Long), with whom she is often in contretemps.
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Missing (2023)
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Missing (2023)
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Summary: After June Allen's (Storm Reid) mother Grace (Nia Long) goes missing on holiday, June does everything she can to find her.
Decent with unexpected plot twists. Gimmick well utilised and inversion of roles of the missing and the searcher appreciated too.
Rating: 4/5
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skinsbenji · 1 year
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jmunneytumbler · 1 year
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'Missing' Delivers Yet Another Screenlife Winner
'Missing' Delivers Yet Another Screenlife Winner
Not Pictured: The People Who Are Missing (CREDIT: Screen Gems) Starring: Storm Reid, Nia Long, Ken Leung, Joaquim de Almeida, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Tim Griffin, Megan Suri Directors: Nick Johnson and Will Merrick Running Time: 111 Minutes Rating: PG-13 for Over-the-Top Ragers and Implied Disturbing Violence Release Date: January 20, 2022 (Theaters) What’s It About?: 18-year-old June Allen…
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brokehorrorfan · 1 year
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From the minds behind Searching, Missing will make you wonder how well you know those closest to you when it hits theaters on January 20. I’m giving readers in the Boston area the opportunity to see it early - and for free!
Broke Horror Fan is sponsoring an advance screening of Missing at AMC Boston Common in Boston, MA on Thursday, January 12, at 7pm. Click here and follow the instructions to download complimentary passes while supplies last. Seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed, so be sure to arrive early!
The 2023 screen life film is written and directed by Searching editors Will Merrick & Nick Johnson. Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long star. Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching) executive produces.
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When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers...and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
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Missing
“Missing” brings more of what made “Searching” so suspenseful and engaging, but still managed to keep me on the edge of my seat.
 June Allen plans to throw a house party when her mother and her new boyfriend go on a vacation to Colombia. She’s asked to pick the two of them up at the airport when they come back. On the day June is supposed to pick the two of them up, they never show up. This leads June down a rabbit hole of trying to find her mother. In order to do that, June must uncover some dark secrets.
In the thesis of my review of “Searching”, I called the adherence to show the story through screens a ‘gimmick’. I’m realizing now that that’s not the charitable description that these movies deserve. The fact that these movies are shown through this medium is actually perfect for a modern-day mystery. Technology has come so far and made so accessible that it’s the obvious tool to use when uncovering any type of mystery. We’ve all done a bit of internet sleuthing in our days and “Missing” captures that feeling perfectly. It’s such an effective way of getting the audience invested in the story because June uses apps and tools that we would use in that situation. The story never has to slow down to explain what these tools do because they’re ubiquitous enough for everyone to understand. This leads to a feeling of nonstop mystery and suspense throughout the whole film. I was so sucked into this movie that I caught myself flinching when something happened suddenly or letting out a cry of despair when something went wrong. I was scared that this movie was following the same framework as “Searching”. I was scared that it would be the same story, but this time it was from the perspective of the child. Luckily, this movie quashed all my worries when the first series of twists and turns took place. I will admit that there were similar beats to the first movie, but they either changed it up enough to feel fresh or spent significantly less time on them to focus on more original things. For example, a big part of “Searching” was watching how all of Margot’s classmates suddenly acted like her best friend when there was increased media attention on her disappearance. There’s something similar to that, but instead of sympathy, the public discourse skewed negatively. I wonder if that was a subtle way of commenting on how the news portrays victims that are women and/or people of color since the victim in this case was a black woman. It’s a small change that completely changed the tune of what the first film was going for in a genius way. Plus, they don’t dwell on it for too long since it was such a big part of the first film. Also, I want to praise Storm Reid’s performance in this. She has been in a ton of top-tier works lately and I’m becoming a fan of hers. She was great in “The Invisible Man”, “The Suicide Squad”, and she was great in that one episode of “The Last Of Us”. Of course, she brings her A-game to this project and I’m excited to see her in more things. All in all, I am becoming a huge fan of this franchise and I can’t wait to see more from them. I think it’s safe to say that they’re doing something different from the rest of what Hollywood is making and delivering extremely quality productions. Definitely check this movie and “Searching” out if you haven’t already. I promise you, you won’t regret it.
★★★★★
Watched on March 7th, 2023
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justloveskins · 2 years
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rickchung · 1 year
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Missing (dir. Nick Johnson & Will Merrick).
[Its] first half is mostly a lot of sophisticated thriller fun commenting on the true crime genre's influence on culture from the point-of-view of a savvy zoomer. When things get cooking towards the climatic third act, so many logic-defying beats descend into a non-sensical series of truly baffling series of events more in line with cheap horror tricks that betrays the tight missing person drama it starts off as.
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rookie-critic · 1 year
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Missing (2023, dir. Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick) - review by Rookie-Critic
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Found footage horror is a genre of film that, though the market got a little over-saturated with it in the 2010s, has managed to turn out some of the most classic movies that modern horror has to offer. Movies like The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and Cloverfield are all mainstays nowadays, not just among horror fans, but in the world of film, in general. It even started to eke outside of the horror world with films like 2012's Chronicle, which acts as more of a sci-fi, subversive superhero film than a horror one. Then, moving past just the idea of "person free-handing a physical camera in story that acts as the footage that makes up the film," 2014's Unfriended sought to slightly evolve the genre, taking the footage from the camera lens to the computer screen by choosing to tell its story through a screen recording. That format, too, would break out of the horror genre in 2018 with the John Cho-led film Searching, which presents as more of a crime-thriller. I mention all of this to bring context to the subject of today's review, Missing.
Acting as more of a spiritual successor than a sequel to Searching, Missing is another story told from the point-of-view of device screens: mainly the screen of a Macbook used by the film's main character. I walked into the theater thinking I was about to be underwhelmed by this movie. I never watched Searching, even though I love John Cho, because it seemed gimmicky to me (I never watched Unfriended, either). I wasn't sold that a story told in that format could convey itself as well as actually being able to get up and follow the characters' motions through the world they are inhabiting. So, when the trailer for Missing dropped, I had two thoughts: 1) I can't believe they made another one of these, and 2) it looks like they gave the whole film away in the trailer anyway. Imagine my surprise to then walk out of the theater two hours later, very impressed by the story they were able to weave. I was enthralled. The story, they mystery, the influence that the constraint of this storytelling format has on your imagination and your patience. It's as close as a movie can come to telling the story from a first person perspective, as you are just as in the dark as the main character is. There is only one time in the entire film where you are given information that the protagonist doesn't have, and even that is done in a way that doesn't break the flow of the format. The writing is so tightly wound and Storm Reid, who plays the film's protagonist, is so captivating that together they draw you in. You buy into the story (or at least I did) to the point where you're barely even noticing the "gimmick" of the film telling its story through device screens unless the filmmakers want you to notice. Directors Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick have cracked that crucial ingredient to making a successful "found footage" film: you write a story that is benefited by using this format. You can't just slap a found footage style on a movie that could have been filmed in a more traditional style, you make it to where the found footage method is the only style that film can work in. I truly believe that Missing benefited greatly from this fairly new evolution on found footage, and would not have been even half as interesting had it been presented in any other format than this.
All my raving and rambling aside, it's still not a perfect film. There are almost too many plot twists or revelatory moments, so many that I came very close to getting plot twist fatigue, and that would be a major detriment to the film if its big "oh shit" plot twist wasn't so wild. It really wipes a lot of those other moments away and brings you back down, allowing you to buy back into the drama of it. The other big problem with the film is that a good chunk of the dialogue is pretty corny. There is an element of humor in the film, a lot of which is visual-based, and a lot of which I did quite enjoy, but the corny dialogue did come off as more of a distraction than an endearment, and it is pretty persistent throughout the entire movie. It won't be topping any "best of" lists or winning any awards, but Missing was deceptively very good, despite a couple of tiring elements, and it just proves that as long as the writing is solid and the story is strong, gimmicks don't have to be or feel gimmicky. Any format works as long as the effort and care are put in.
Score: 8/10
Currently only in theaters.
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