Film: Missing

This came and went so quickly from the cinema I was glad to see it on the flight schedule (to Mexico). Sadly BA’s ‘entertainment’ system was anything but and it took over 3 hours of connection fails to get to watch an under 2-hour film.

Thankfully it’s rivetting and was watchable even without the visual matching the audio. I loved Searching, and this is the standalone follow-up. This time it’s June (Storm Reid), the daughter of a widowed mum, Grace (Nia Long) wondering why she didn’t return from a weekend in Columbia with her boyfriend.

Once again, though using digital tools, June uncovers much more about her Mum and her new boyfriend than she bargained for. The classic teenage guilt of not returning calls, ignoring voicemails and generally never showing appreciation rears its head from the opening scenes.

June finds it pretty easy to hack into her mum’s emails as this time we are all about Gmail/Google rather than the love letter to Microsoft that was Searching. I giggled when the service I use a lot, Task Rabbit popped up as June tried to find people in Columbia to help her when the FBI was seemingly doing nothing. I fully expected her to get a job as a researcher there when she graduates.

The only surprising thing is her best friend didn’t stick around and left her alone in the house, but people have other things going on in their lives.

It’s the number of twists and turns that keep Missing interesting. The thing about a solid thriller is there are many characters, which equals many plotlines and so more suspects.

It’s another thoroughly modern film and lesson in digital tools.

The only film I had the patience to watch on a 10 flight when ordinarily I would have seen 2-3. It was a good choice.

8/10

Seen on a flight from London to Mexico