John Cho hasn't seen his daughter in two days, so he tries to contact her through the internet, the way people do these days. As every point of contact turns up blank, he comes to realize that she is gone. When he files a missing person report, detective Deborah Messing is assigned to the case, which gradually becomes grimmer and grimmer.

In assessing a movie like this, i consider issues like script, performances, camerawork, editing..... all the details, I like to think, that make a movie good or bad. One obvious thing stands out: the movie all takes place on on a computer screen, in tabs and windows, and that affects the visual quality. Clearly this is an experimental technique.

But does the experiment work? Every time the aspect ratio has changed, most notably in the 1950s with wide-screen, old timers have screamed about the new look; I believe it was Fritz Lang who said it was good only for filming parades and snakes. Part of that is laziness, of course, and part is the lack of techniques for dealing with the new aspect ratio.

What annoys me about it is that it lacks subtly. Directors and cameramen have dealt with the issue of how to change aspect ratios within a fixed frame for more than a hundred years, using set decoration, with a panache that the movie goer doesn't notice, but which controls their eyes. This technique is blatant. It's annoying.

The acting by Cho and Messing is pretty good. I have some issues with the way the mystery is resolved, but that's also an old-fashioned matter of what constitutes a fair and proper mystery.