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nmahoney416 says...
6 years ago
This is a very entertaining thriller. Having everything shown through a computer screen is not just a gimmick, is it a unique and interesting storytelling method. It feels real because we interact with computers everyday. The story is full of twist and turns that keep you on your toes. Everything is shown for a reason, everything can be interpreted in different ways. John Cho gives a fantastic performance, especially since he is acting against a screen for most of the movie. One of the best movies of the year.
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Reply by ItsWilder
5 years ago
@nmahoney416 Did you notice the picture in the beginning of the movie with the father and daughter in front of the high school? The high school is the “home of the catfish” :)
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Movie Pal says...
5 years ago
An exciting thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

_Searching_ makes a big gamble: A big part of the movie is spent looking into a computer screen. The result however is astonishing! Do not miss it.
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deadmice says...
5 years ago
Wow. Never has a movie kept me at the edge of my seat and guessing the whole time. Just wow, the story-telling-through-a-computer concept just makes it a hundred times better. An absolute must for everyone, specially thriller/mystery fans.
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foursmols says...
5 years ago
I wish I could forget ever having watched this just so I could experience it for the first time again.
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Reply by nextstep
2 weeks ago
@foursmols your wish has been granted, you cant remember shit now after 5 years. and a 2nd movie in this series has also been made, enjoy :)
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NatalynnRose says...
5 years ago
Really great film. Loved the concept and the fact that all the clues where right there all along.
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Saint Pauly says...
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6 years ago
Like most PG-13 offerings, _Searching_ is just emmental: full of holes, cheesy and too much will make you queasy. And it's not really gouda.

The movie's not a total waste, however. The found footage aspect (the film is entirely presented through screen activity on mobile phones, laptops, desktops...) is well done and the actors often hit their marks.

The film's major drawbacks, however, are the ending, which we know as soon as we see the film's MPAA rating (no matter how clever they think they are at trying to convince us otherwise) and the WTFs, [spoiler] like the police don't check a missing teen's text messages and no one has ever heard of catfishing [/spoiler].

Hey, if the film isn't going to give me any credit, I'm certainly not above doing the same.
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Reply by Thiz
6 years ago
Try to use spoiler alert. By the way, I see your reviews often. Is there any movie you have liked? Or just "review" the ones you don't Only?<br /> No trolling, just curious. And please, again, there's a spoiler warning, use it? Cheers
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Reply by sp1ti
6 years ago
@thiz https://trakt.tv/users/saint-pauly/ratings/movies/all/highest ;)))
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Reply by Saint Pauly
6 years ago
@thiz Forgive me for the laziness of not using the spoiler alert code. There's really no excuse and I shall try harder in the future.<br /> <br /> Thank you for taking the time to read my reviews! As far as liking films... I see a different film every day in the cinema and review each one. I find I usually 'like' (a 7/10 or higher) roughly 30% of the films I see, thus around 10/month. I usually only give an 8/10 once a month, and a 9/10 once or twice a year. A 10/10 is once every 5 years, or so. (I just don't feel that many PERFECT films are made.) So yes, I'm probably more critical than most.<br /> <br /> Sorry for the delay in responding. I don't think Trakt sent me a notification about your comment or, if one was sent, it slipped between the virtual cracks of my inbox. 1000 apologies, I didn't mean to ignore you. :-)
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Reply by Saint Pauly
6 years ago
@sp1ti Thanks for posting this! I didn't know it was possible to see my ratings sorted from highest to lowest. I was even able to make some adjustments with the benefit of hindsight (raised Revenge to a 9, lowered Death Race 2050 to an 8...). Also, I hadn't realised someone had replied to my comment, so thanks for bringing this to my attention! &lt;3
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Reply by littlegreycells
5 years ago
@saint-pauly you know what's funny, on one of the photos of Margot starting school (I think it must have been high school) on the sign for the school, it says "home of the catfish"!
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Reply by Saint Pauly
5 years ago
@littlegreycells Omg, I did not see that! I'm considering doing an extensive synopsis for 123wtf.me, and this is just the kind of fact I love to point out. Thank you!
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Reply by littlegreycells
5 years ago
@saint-pauly I just happened to notice it and my brain was obviously like "let's store this little nugget of info away for later in the film" haha!
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Reply by Saint Pauly
5 years ago
@littlegreycells I found it! It's a photo of Margot with her dad on her first day of high school. Cool!
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AdamMorgan says...
5 years ago
I think my favorite thing about this film is how it took a new approach to story telling.  About halfway through the film I noted that this is the first film that I can recall seeing where it assumed that the user new about facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.  This allowed the director to give the user the backstory in a really creative way without spending much time (in recent years Woody Allen would do the same using a narrator).  What the character didn't send via text was often more interesting in that you got a sense for what they were struggling with as they backspaced their initial thoughts.

I thought the story was well delivered and the end satisfying.  

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Jayro Mycthell says...
6 years ago
The movie is simply sensational! The script is great, the acting is good and the direction is flawless.
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Khawlah says...
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4 years ago
A brilliant and wonderfully executed approach to a who done it story. So many twists that I definitely didn't see coming. Thrilling and surprisingly emotional. Definitely one of few movies I would annoyingly recommend to people.

Damn, I sure hope David was able to retrieve that "best dad" video. :wink:
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Davezn  says...
5 years ago
Excellent concept through a laptop screen. Good build up to a thrilling ending. Kept me guessing all the way through. Well worth a watch. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Happy ending as well. :grin:
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SpeedDemon says...
4 years ago
This is a great movie. It keeps entertained and interested through the whole episode of a father that thinks he knows his daughter but finds out he doesn't really know much at all. A good twist to the plot near the end adds to the drama.

I'm watching this in 2020, don't know how I missed it back in2018. Solid 10/10
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Whitsbrain says...
2 years ago
The fact that this story is told entirely on screens is pretty amazing. There are no cheats that I picked up on. Everything is shown on a laptop, phone, television, camera, and it's kind of fun to see how the Dad sifts though clues to try to find his daughter.

Hearing a lot of the hype got me really geared up to watch this but the story was really not very interesting and I thought the reveal of what happened to his daughter was kind of a stretch. There was one false alarm about 2/3rds of the way through that would have been a more interesting (albeit, disgusting) explanation for her disappearance.

Overall, this was good but duller than the word of mouth about the movie led me to believe.
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