Megan is Missing

It wants to be socially aware, realistic and oppressive, but instead, it gradually becomes annoying, boring and ridiculous, though until the last few minutes, it’s also a little oppressive and intense. If the fourteen year-old protagonist didn’t behave like such a slut (though I get that one of the goals of the film is to warn about how something like this can happen to a child), her fate would have a bigger effect on the viewer, but this way it’s just unpleasant and numbing on all fronts. (02/08/2012)

A film full of nonsense and gratuitous manipulation. I won’t question the fact that there are young girls (and not only girls) who in this online age unknowingly fall in the hands of masochistic assholes, but I seriously doubt the way this naive attempt wants to tell us about it –  the whole thing looks as unconvincing as Trump’s comb-over. The way it pushes Amy, the only normal character, into the position of a looser is a clear prototype of mechanical cynicism, and the found-footage format is just stupid – really, would a killer film the last hours of their victim with a camera belonging to said victim, only to throw it in a public bin? It talks about a tragedy, but that tragedy is not only awfully exploited, but it doesn’t say anything. And it’s also lethally boring, even in the “shocking” twist. (27/11/2020)