New high-suspense thriller gives you 111 minutes of adrenaline rush and makes fun of Netflix too

If you are fans of suspense cinema, you may missing from Thursday the February 23, 2023 definitely don’t miss it. Because this modern thriller knows how to pull you into its exciting narrative in an extraordinary way, as if you were there live. For such a cinema adventure, it is worth letting the Netflix subscription rest for an evening.

What is Missing about? When the mother of youngsters June (Storm Reid) disappears without a trace during a short vacation, the daughter goes online to search for her – and covers with all means of the modern internet world so much up.

Thriller of the future: Missing gets your adrenaline pumping even without constant action

As a non-action film, Missing sees itself as creating a lot of (an) tension and keeping the pulse high over the entire running time of 111 minutes. While there are definitely action-packed moments in Missing, the real art of the film is that it captures your attention even without constant chases. That your own heartbeat rarely has time to rest in this twisty thrilleris mainly due to the special style of the film.

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Missing belongs to the still young film genre Desktop Movies (aka Screenmovies). That means: everything that happens on the screen takes place in real time on a screen instead of. Be it June navigating the desktop of her computer with the mouse pointer or making video calls on her mobile phone. Films like Unknown User and Profile have shown how it’s done, and Missing is perfecting the method even further.

Whether Siri voice control or webcam spying: Missing dives into the sometimes useful and sometimes threatening excesses of our technological society a. June digs into the suspicious past of her mother’s (Nia Long) new boyfriend (Ken Leung) on ​​social media. And so, imaginatively, she uses Google’s Spanish translator to communicate with the owner of the Mexican hotel where her mother was staying.

The constant switching between programs keeps the narrative walking pace, as does a hesitation in typing when June has a new flash of inspiration. Tracking that in Missing is a Marathon of mental leapswhich never gets boring.

Missing puts you in the driver’s seat of excitement with Storm Reid

Luckily, Missing uses modern technology without raising the index finger in a lecturing manner. Everyone can draw moral conclusions from what is shown. And because almost all of us deal with e-mail programs, Internet research or Netflix series on a daily basis, this type of narration creates one in familiar online waters the pull of being there immediately.

Regardless of the real brands you will definitely recognize yourself in Missing, if you have a computer or a smartphone. After all, everyone has had a forgotten password email sent to them at some point. Even if most of us probably make fewer video calls in everyday life than the characters in Missing, who are so visually brought into the picture.

You probably know leading actress Storm Reid from The Mysteries of Time, Euphoria or (from next week) the 7th episode The Last of Us. When Missing shows her, she becomes an engaging caregiver. On the other hand, if we just follow her on-screen actions, she becomes deputy avatarnavigating old Facebook images and tourism websites for us.

If you want to lean back, you’ve come to the wrong IP address. Because missing requires a intensive thinking, as if we were detectives ourselves. Some insights and twists can come to us even before the main character, while others are completely surprising.

Including a Netflix dig: Missing has its finger on the pulse of time

But in addition to all this adrenaline rush, Missing doesn’t miss out on humor either. Right at the beginning, June looks enthusiastically at the new (fictional) series “Unfiction” on Netflix, for example. Here the film subtly makes a connection to the previous film Searching and at the same time takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to Netflix’s obsession with true crime countless similar formats of the streaming service.

This also works as society mirror: For one thing, the “real life” role models in this fictional Netflix series that June researched are far less handsome than the show’s stars. On the other hand, this fictional series is about a fictional story (sold as real) in a fictional film contemporary meta comment, which becomes important later in the story. (But pssst, no spoilers.)

The most important thing is that in addition to all the social media references in Missing, Netflix is ​​also an integral part of everyday life and thus gives the thriller the necessary substructure alongside Internet services such as Google, FaceTime and TaskRabbit convincingly anchored in our real present.

It all adds up to make Missing a fast-paced modern thriller that the Keeps the tension high while cheering. From the first to the last click.

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