'Missing' expands the ideas introduced by 'Searching' and focuses on the many lives we live on the internet through a tense thriller. Our review:
With 2018’s Searching and now, its pseudo-sequel Missing, the idea of “screen life” storytelling isn't a gimmick, it’s a way of showing a side of a character’s life that could easily get lost in the margins with any other story. Both Searching and Missing are told entirely from screens, be it phones, security cameras, or more often than not, computer screens, and we primarily learn about these characters from their internet activity.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Missing follows June Allen , who is staying home alone while her mother Grace , and her mom’s new boyfriend Kevin Lin take a vacation to Colombia. But when Grace and Kevin don’t return from their vacation, June tries to find out what happened to them through her own means, by digging into online accounts and shady e-mails to see where her mother could’ve gone.
Nick Johnson and Will Merrick—making their directorial debuts—always make this story feel expansive, even if it’s being told entirely through screens. Even more than Searching, Missing finds ways to play around with this concept that could've been restrictive.
Yet Missing inherently doesn't work without solid characters, and thankfully, this story has plenty. Reid is a great protagonist who is understandably freaked out about her mother’s disappearance, and does whatever it takes to find her, regardless of the police investigation or danger to herself. Reid plays June as a child who has already lost her father and will do what she can to make sure she doesn't lose her mother as well, and that is certainly felt through the performance.
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