alexia-ransom
This may just be the worst movie I have ever seen. Extremely unrealistic depiction of the girls' lives. If Amy is supposed to be a shy 14 year old girl with obviously protective parents, how did they allow her to go to that party with all the junkies at the first place? Also, why wouldn't she tell someone that Megan was doing heroin? She seemed like a better friend than that. Another thing that bugged me was Lexie in Amy's video diary. She blames Amy for Megan's disappearance without a reason, and Amy doesn't seem to try and defend herself. Why on earth would they blame Amy anyway? This makes no sense. Even if it was well directed, it also lacks a decent plot. We have no understanding of the killer's motive, nor do we even watch enough gore for this to be considered at least gory. It was just a massive disappointment and a complete waste of time.
videorama-759-859391
MIM, I would say, is a movie that would give a few parents nightmares for nights to follow, but it's a movie that every parent should see. First off, dispel the negative reviews. This is one of those films like Wolf Creek, for example, that's still turning around my head, again because of the so real situation, but girls meets a worse fate than Mick Taylor. Two girls, best friends become victims of an internet serial child predator, passing himself off as this young surfer dude, who looks like someone out and Home And Away. Megan is this very popular high school girl, the one that everyone loves and respect. Her best friend, Amy is the other end, sensible, outcast, virginal type, who Megan's friends and other people make fun of. Girls can be so mean, and besides Amy, I didn't like any of these other girls, while not regarding Megan very highly either. But with the masks removed, these are how real girls act, or are they cliche's from other 2000+ films. The way it's shot, using less lighting, really worked making it come across as a Gregory Dark film, while the first half of the film, feels very much like Larry Clark. Some inventive touches were great too, like the reenactment, of Megan's abduction, sprouting some amusing moments, on part of the actor's sake here. Also the news bulletin segment of film, again coaxing me into the belief these were real characters. That's what Blair Witch, did. But even though fictional, in this film, they couldn't be closer than the truth. With the two girls here, who I first believed to be real people, it had me at a bit of alarm, when judging by the dates of the disappearance, where one month later, here in Adelaide. February 2007, a young girl, Carly Ryan,, another victim of an anonymous internet sicko, was murdered. The last twenty minutes of the girls's terror and torture here, is a hard watch, where the killer has taken them to his lair in the woods. His face has been kept hidden, and some images in this last part of movie, involving blood and death, won't sit well with a few. The lengthy Amy begging/digging scene is one of the most affectingly disturbing and discomforting scenes I've ever seen. It just goes on and on, you really want it to stop. Although Megan Is Missing isn't the greatest film ever made, this good film, is an educational drama, and warrants viewing from parents and teens. The three stars are good too, especially the girls, our lead with a bolstering performance. The way the movie's constructed and told, I really liked, again the early as with dialogue, it was very Larry Clark'ish. Like Thirteen, River's Edge, whatever, this is one of the more important teen films.
mwcanadian-99023
**may contain spoilers* This movie is just bad in so many ways. I'll start with the first problem. the director is so bad that he yells the word "action" and it can be heard! That's not the best directing there. The 2nd problem is of course the acting. I give them credit for trying, but these two did not act like teenage girls, the one girl Amy was particularly bad with the one scene that causes controversy and Megan is so annoying that you kinda don't care if she did go missing.The 3rd problem is how disturbing it felt watching it. I just didn't enjoy the disturbing movie and it wasn't just disturbing for that one controversial scene, it was disturbing for the unrealistic parts. For one, Amy doesn't tell the police about Josh right away. Two, they don't really take her too seriously and somehow it gets leaked that she gave the police information. Honestly, this is a movie that should be avoided. They said it's based on a true story (or a bunch of true stories or something), but the closest true story i see is the Ashley Pond case, but that case had a huge difference. In Pond's case, she and her friend were murdered by another friend's dad and not by an online guy they never met. Ashley and Miranda didn't get picked up by an online predator, just a sicko dad who wanted his daughter's friends. This movie is trying to get the message about not falling for "online predators" but i think they would've done a much better job giving this message out by making a short show about online predators or supporting other movies or shows that give the message out better than this. if you want to watch it, then that's up to you, but trust me you won't enjoy it. The first part of the movie is just dull as dirt (until the director says action, then you can laugh at that) while the second part of the movie will just disturb you and the ending is just bad.
