‘Missing’ Review: Followup To 2018’s Sleeper Hit ‘Searching’ Is A Nail-Biting Thriller For The Internet Age
deadline.com2018’s sleeper hit, Searching showed you could create an effective edge-of-your-seat mystery thriller told exclusively through the use of the screens that dominate our daily lives in this century.
It starred John Cho as a father whose 16 year old daughter disappears, leading him to use all the tools of the internet to try and trace her steps in order to find her.
Its followup, Missing, actually improves on that idea with a different story and set of characters, taking it several leaps further in creating a corker of a suspense picture that looks like what a filmmaking master such as Hitchcock might have made had he been an IT genius too.
Watching Searching, which was directed and co-written (with Sev Ohanian) by Aneesh Chaganty, I kept thinking how the real stars of the piece were the film editors who had to put together a puzzle of images in order to create a coherent story.
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