The central gimmick of Searching – it's a missing-person thriller played out entirely on smartphone and computer screens – might seem cheesy at first.
But it's really just a fact of life in 2018.
A lot of us really do spend most of our waking hours staring at and interacting with screens of one kind or another.
In that regard, it's not that weird for a story to be set on the internet. It's weird there aren't more stories told this way, the occasional Unfriended aside.
Anyway, though the approach is unusual, the actual concept of the film is pretty straightforward. It's a mystery thriller with John Cho playing a concerned dad on the search for his missing daughter.
Come to think of it, that last part might be the biggest shocker of all. How many of us realized John Cho was even old enough to be a father of a teenager to begin with?? This dude never ages.
Searching is in theaters August 3.
