The excellent under-the-radar film Missing arrived on Netflix on Saturday (May 20), and audiences online found it quite quickly. Moments ago it just hit No. 1 on the Netflix Top Movies in the U.S. list, having been at No. 2 since Sunday (according to FlixPatrol).
At the box office, Missing fought with big names, competing with Avatar: The Way of Water, M3GAN and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which all beat it on opening weekend (even though none were new that weekend). Critics, though, were positive, awarding it an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Plus, its audience score (90%) is even better, so you know this isn't just a lot of hype.
June (Storm Reid) thought she was going to have it easy while her mother Grace (Nia Long) was out of town in Cartagena, Colombia. Her biggest nightmare was supposed to be cleaning up the huge house party she shouldn't have thrown. June thought wrong.
When Grace doesn't exit the airplane, June starts to panic and uses the internet to try and figure out where her mother is. Mom's new boyfriend Kevin (Ken Leung) is suspect numero uno, and June figures out all sorts of suspicious details about his past.
But once the trail runs out, and the FBI gets involved, June pulls the most 2023 move ever: she hires a gig economy worker in Colombia to help track Grace down. And while Javier (Joaquim de Almeida) goes above and beyond, he and June soon discover a wild series of twists and turns that will leave you breathless.
Benjamin Lee at The Guardian rated Missing 3 out of 5 stars, calling it "propulsive and involving and, at times, genuinely innovative but in upgrading our lead to someone who is that much more skilled behind a keyboard. He also noted "Reid is a compelling and commanding protagonist."
Over in the Rotten Tomatoes audience reviews section, Deron B writes "Great storyline with twist and turns. June bug is easy to build a connection with and acting is riveting. Would be 5 stars if visuals weren't so gimmicky in the computer scenes."
Daniel N praised it, stating "With its unique style, high pace and lavish number of twists and turns you will remain at the edge of your seat while being taught a thing or two about your digital footprint."
I saw Missing in theaters earlier this year, and am confident when I state it's not for everyone. The third act, with its completely zany twists, may test the limits of some audience members. There's also a particularly low-budget moment where we see a cable news show talking about Grace's disappearance.
Still, if you like thrillers and can enjoy sillier movies, I fully recommend you watch Missing online. Even better: invite some friends over. Missing, as I experienced it, is a great movie to watch with a group.
These include Denis Villeneuve's crime thriller "Prisoners," the epic sci-fi film "Dune," and Ridley Scott's somewhat overlooked sequel to "Alien," "Prometheus." There are several other fantastic shows and movies worth catching before they disappear from the streaming service.
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There was a time when "Netflix and chill" was a cultural phenomenon. And it still can be now, considering how the company likes to tout it's presence in 190 countries with over 139 million paid memberships.
Netflix started out as a DVD rental firm; it succeeded because people could rent whatever they wanted, from the latest blockbuster to classic film noir. As long as the titled was carried and they were willing to wait, customers could catch what they missed in the cinema or revisit some popular title.
The same premise applied in it's reincarnation as a streaming giant. However, surreptitiously, titles began to go missing from the catalogues. Have you noticed how there are now fewer Marvel titles in the collection? How Star Wars episodes are no longer there? Or how Pixar is completely missing? Perhaps you realise there's Ironman and Ironman 3 but not the one in between? That Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation is the only entry of the franchise in the library? Chances are, every summer tent pole feature between now and September will not be found in Netflix as well, and that is the biggest risk facing the company.
Sony, Warner Bros, Universal, Disney (and along with it, Pixar and Fox), are all starting their own streaming services, and they will want their own arsenal of titles well stocked with the ultra-popular movies they produce. So if you want to catch Batman and the Lord of the Rings, better do it quick before they get pulled and plugged into the Warner's own platform, or before Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (but not the first one because it's already gone) and the first Avengers (but not the second and third one, but I guess you already can see the trend) movie disappear. Then Friends and Brooklyn-Nine-Nine will probably go too once their leases expire. Don't believe me? Type "Blockbuster movies" in the search bar and take a look at what's left.
Netflix has attempted to stop the bleeding via original content, which have had some success, but when was anyone truly impressed by what they made? Roma was a masterpiece, but it's more of an outlier than the norm. There will probably be viewers out there like me who will deliberately skip any show that has the Netflix logo on top, as they have come to represent mediocrity than entertainment par excellence.
Perhaps Netflix can start broadcasting sports? Unlikely, since the broadcasting rights are already snapped up by the existing players, and giving up their perennial cash cows probably wouldn't make much economic sense, which is what all professional sports nowadays are about anyway.
Subscriber growth in the saturated US market is slowing. The reverse is true for other markets, and there is no stopping them because they are a behemoth from the US that is invincible and will never be defeated, like Netscape and AOL! More and more people will be plugged into high-speed internet capable of streaming content and the first thing they will do is to subscribe to Netflix because it carries all their favourite shows, from local fare to Hollywood blockbusters....oh wait, they don't have that anymore... hm...... (insert contemplative emoji with hand on chin). Or maybe Netflix will keep creating highly, erm, okay, somewhat meh-rated country-specific dramas that will keep subscribers fixed to their devices!
Maybe Netflix will begin to subsidise mobile data plans in emerging markets bundled with their app in an attempt to generate higher numbers and raise fees in mature ones to pay for the binge, and maybe this will work for a while, but time and again companies that rely on giving out free stuff to snag market share have the tendency of finding themselves going kaput really quickly (Chinese bike-sharing startups anyone?), so let's see if investors will have the same faith in Reed Hastings as they do Elon Musk.
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