Searching

2018 computer screen movie

Rating: 10/20

Plot: A guy's daughter is missing, so he looks for her. Grace, from the Will and Grace show, also helps out.

A mystery flick with this many twists and turns likely shouldn't be this boring, but once the novelty of watching an entire movie's plot unfold on a computer screen wears off, which happens about as early as you would probably expect, this offers very little. Facebook exploration, Facetime chats, Facetweeting, Facegram. It's as if the writers were more concerned with including every single form of computer communication available instead of having an interesting plot. Watching a big screen that is displaying the activities on a tinier screen isn't something that I found especially gripping anyway. It was kind of like watching those old Google commercials where you'd see a series of searches that ended up telling a tear-jerking narrative except extended to a little over an hour and a half. Take away the semi-original idea, and you've got a very weak story. The acting hurts things, too. Searching isn't a found-footage movie, but it suffers in the same way those do when less-than-stellar acting gets in the way of the authenticity.