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Searching (starring John Cho) @ 93% on rotten tomatoes

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Taki

Taki

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YOU TOLD ME SHE RAN AWAY
 
Maximus

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Oct 27, 2017
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Good for John! I think he's a great actor and I love Harold and Kumar. Need to check this out.
 
Masquerade Overture

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oatmeal said:
Man am I way off from you guys on this.

I like John Cho in everything but I thought he was horribly miscast. Same with Debra Messing. Both were acting the entire time. Cho never emoted except one time when he hit the dresser, and then of course when he got the news.

The "Up" intro lacked any punch and with the cornball music, made it feel like a Google commercial or something.

Bummed out, I really expected to like it. And it's so rare that I'm so opposite of the general consensus.
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FINALLY I'm not the only one who hates this movie.
 
offcast

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Oct 28, 2017
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This was a fun movie to stumble upon, but can someone confirm that the trash was taken out?
 

Ashhong

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Oct 26, 2017
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oatmeal said:
No. I didn't see Dave the father, I saw John Cho pretending to be the father. Messing was playing a cop.

Neither felt authentic.
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I wonder if it had to do with the way the story was told. Everything from a singular POV, it might change how you interpret a character's actions or even the acting.
 
oatmeal

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Ashhong said:
I wonder if it had to do with the way the story was told. Everything from a singular POV, it might change how you interpret a character's actions or even the acting.
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No. I really enjoyed Unfriended (sans the...supernatural stuff). The way this was told was really cool (though him always having Facetime on, even when not making a call was suspect). I'm all for this gimmick.

I think it would have been better to cast unknowns.
 
giancarlo123x

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Oct 25, 2017
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Rented this off psn yesterday, really enjoyed it. The way it was shot was super unique and first thing I thought was "this had to be cheap to made." Looks like it made 70x its budget. Lol
 
hateradio

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Oct 28, 2017
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Messing wasn't believable, especially when she said "the 101" . . . as someone from LA living in the Bay Area, people here refuse to use "the" in front of highway numbers.

Cho was okay for the most part. He just doesn't do pain very well until the end.
 
HiLife

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Oct 25, 2017
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Saw this a couple nights ago and thought it was good.

Crazy how you could visibly see Johns face change over the course of a week.
 
grang

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Nov 13, 2017
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Just got through with this one. Movie was great and John Cho was really, really impressive in this.
 
Nikus

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Oct 25, 2017
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I liked it. Wasn't blown away, but still enjoyed it a lot. The first half was better imo.
 
TheBeardedOne

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Derry
This one pretty well lived up to the hype from era. I'm glad I watched it, and that the library had it yesterday. Good movie.

John Cho was good in it, the way it was presented was interesting and so was the mystery. I do wish that the final reveal had been less reminiscent of the endings in a lot of mystery fiction, but would be lying if I said I saw it coming. All I knew was that there was more.
 
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