Missing (2023) Review

June has been looking forward to her mother Grace going away for the week and has big plans with her friends. Agreeing to pick her up from the airport when arriving home she quickly gets worried when the flight lands and her mother is not on it!

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Using the tools she has available online she begins to try and track down where her mother could possibly be along with her new boyfriend Kevin. This quickly highlights that June should have paid more attention to her Mother and appreciated what she did for her more than she could ever imagine.

As everything gets more complicated with June turning somewhat hacker in an attempt to locate her mother and Kevin, she must get into different email and location accounts online. It also showed some tricks on how you might be able to actually get into someones account and reset passwords as well, which I think in a very different way to other parts of the film was a little bit scary when you think about your own online security.

Missing follows exactly the same format as Searching and for that very reason I was super excited to eventually get to see what is not really a sequel but I guess we can say in the same “universe”. Especially as this film starts we see that Searching has been made into a Netflix series and that is what June was watching on her computer!

Naturally I am not going to spoil the different twists and turns of the plot but it certainly does keep you guessing from start to finish, I am pretty sure that I fell for each of the ways it was pushing us towards in terms of what had happened to Grace. It also made you realise how difficult the parent/child relationships can become when you are a teenager becoming a young adult and that finding a balance is the way forward.

I really do love the format of everything being through a computer screen and how technology can really be used to achieve incredible things, especially with how quickly you can do everything with it. The Ring doorbell was certainly a good addition as well as using services online as well with actual real people. Naturally Javi was everyones favourite character right?

Seriously though this film is well worth watching and Storm Reid is just brilliant in the leading role!