fumanstan

I watched a late showing last night and absolutely loved it. One of my favorite movies of the year, and I can't remember the last time a movie had me on the edge of my seat anticipating how things unfolded. There were probably 3 or 4 genuine shocks as clues turned to red herrings or false leads. I really enjoyed the realistic use of computers, as everything David did also felt like something I would do, following the clues and trails from one website to another as well as the use of social media and casting today.



Compared to Crazy Rich Asians, which draw obvious attention to the ethnicity of the cast and as a pivotal role to the movie, it was nice to see the Kim family depicted without needing to draw attention to their race and John Cho as the leading man. Reminds me of the #StarringJohnCho hashtag from a couple years back.

dex14

kristina

John Cho was great. I'd never seen him in anything before but now I feel like checking out other movies he's been in. As for the plot, I felt like it was a bit predictable. By the time his character found out who was really involved, I was like "yeah I saw that coming."

TheBang

devilshalo

fumanstan

I really want to check out Columbus that dex mentioned. Reviews seem really positive. Anyone know if it's streaming anywhere?

dex14

Hulu.

fumanstan

Poop. I don't subscribe Maybe i'll just rent it off Amazon for $5.

Hokeyboy

9 out of 10 for me. This was an engrossing thriller with some truly gripping moments. I thought the format would be a turnoff, but they made some imaginative and creative choices on how to tell this particular story. Definitely a highlight of the summer (along with Hereditary, BlacKkKlansman, and MI: Fallout).

johnnysd

Saw this today. Thought the beginning was exceptionally well done, and really tragic. It was really consistent. My only issue is since I knew there was a "twist" it was pretty easy to figure it out since the clues were so consistent with the final twist. Still it was really a gripping movie. My only change would have been that the epilogue should have been filmed normally.

tonyc3742

Great suspenseful movie, and the 'through the net' style seemed realistic and immersive. Although sometimes it's harder for me to log into my own damn accounts.

I too thought

I noticed both .

I like the fact that after knowing the ending, in retrospect the clues are there. It's not like "The solution is X!" when X wasn't in the movie at all, or not till the last nine minutes or something.

Oh, and it's one thing for

The calendar - yeah that was sad

There were multiple gasps and "oohhhh..." in the theater at certain points in the movie, so it was obviously quite engrossing to many.

Why So Blu?

I finally got around to this and it was pretty fucking cool. I did not necessarily care about the ending, but the continuous ups and downs had me saying "oh shit" a lot.

Glad I got to see it before it leaves theaters for good.

Hokeyboy

After watching "Searching", I asked myself if the film would have worked if it had been shot conventionally (i.e. not through Internet/PC/cell phone screens), and if the storyline would have survived the "gimmick".

It would have. But the gimmick made it that much more compelling. Great movie.

Hokeyboy

pecker

Koby

Great movie. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought early on that


Usually not a fan of movies shot in unconventional ways such as "found footage", etc.. But I think they did a nice job with how they managed to pull it off with this one in a way that just worked nicely and added to the movie themes.

Daytripper

Agree with everything you said. Well, save for "BlacKkKlansman". I finally saw that this week and it was good, not great IMO. But this was truly an edge of your seat experience. And I too thought the format would not work for a whole movie. But it worked beautifully. This was every parent's worst nightmare. And the best ID Channel "Dateline" ever made.

Norm de Plume

Agreed, it's an excellent suspenser, but the ending strained credulity. An equally good movie in the same vein (only viewed online) is 2013's The Den.

Original Desmond

This movie was great !

Really enjoyed it, the computer stuff was done in a good fluid way.

John Cho as always was brilliant

And i did tear up at the end

Original Desmond

I will say one thing though

This movie will NOT age well

Brian T

Saw this very recently too. Very timely, but agreed it won't age well. At least they showed existing technology being used accurately, for the most part, but then most movies, especially thrillers, built around existing contemporary tech usually don't age well, but I suppose they live on as interesting time capsules for those who were there. This show only really frustrated me when seemingly everyone, including the media, so readily accepted that Michelle La's character was presumed dead based on a ridiculously flimsy confession/suicide video. That surfaces and everybody's like "welp, let's wrap 'er up!" No police detective worth their salt (such as all the ones shown working the scene of the car extraction and/or surrounding Messing during her press conference, since she's, you know . . .) would call a case essentially closed just because some supposedly bad hombre sez it is, and anyone watching that kind of a press conference on the news would be righteously outraged, which of course would mean a lot more scenes the writers/director probably had no time to shoot. They probably should've brought in outside help to get around that contrivance. The 'streaming memorial service' thing bugged me at first, but a search revealed that that's indeed a real thing, so consider me taught. Also, as a graphic designer I spotted the stock photo right off and knew it would come into play later on.

Norm de Plume

I watched it for a second time tonight, and while I still find it a riveting piece of cinema, and probably the best thriller of recent years, I had a better chance to tally up the plot holes.
First of all, you're right, Brian T, that the cops would not have declared her dead based solely on a confession, much less a confession of a guy who shortly thereafter "committed suicide". That entire stretch of scenes was faintly ridiculous.
Also:


I have to agree that this movie will not age well, but one can see it as an artifact of this awful "social media" era.