Writer/Director Aneesh
Chaganty’s Searching is a love it or groan-through-it “thriller,”
depending on how much you’re into social media and on-line communication.
Either way, it comes off
as a promising graduate film student opus in which the young daughter (Michelle
La) of an overly devoted father (John Cho) disappears and dad uses his computer
skills and the help of a police inspector (Debra Messing) to find her.
Initially, all the texting
and on-line searching is interesting, even humorous, at times, but it
eventually becomes a bit too much for the over-35 audience and, ultimately,
becomes somewhat boring and predictable.
Still, I give Searching
a 3.6 out of 5 as an overall average for the two audience groups.
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