Moviecut—My Daughter Is Missing

The worst acting ever steals 3 stars from a possible 8. The acting is very amateurish and is made worse by poor directing. This movie is worth a watch if you like the genre otherwise give it a wide berth.

"My Daughter is Missing" is a taut thriller with an intriguing central character. Sara is a professor with a specialty in cyber security. In her past, she was a hacker both on computers and in picking locks. She has arrived in Belgrade, Serbia to deliver a keynote speech at a conference. She also reunites with her daughter, Karissa (Rissa), who is a student abroad. Little does Sara know the degree to which her skills will be tested in Belgrade. While attending university in Belgrade, Rissa has met her bestie named Lara. The two young women decide to out "clubbing" at the studio called Haven. It turns out that the personnel at Haven are running a human trafficking ring. The DJ serves up a roofie to the girls, then assists them into the back of a van. Rissa fires off a phone message to her mom alerting her that she is in trouble. The electronic genius Sara takes it from there to track down her missing daughter. Some of the most amoral characters imaginable appear in this film. The worst offender is Stefan, one of the lead detectives on the Belgrade police force. After attending Sara's lecture and hitting on her afterwards, he boldly promises that he will come to her aide if she needs anything. But when the desperate mom alerts him to her daughter's abduction, Stefan is anything but helpful, making it clear that he himself is deep into the human trafficking ring. The subject of Sara's lecture was "moral boundaries in the digital age." She had personally learned a lesson about ethics when her lout of a husband sponged off her expertise to embezzle funds and break the law. Now, Sara finds herself bereft and alone in a big city as she attempts to recover her daughter. The one breath of fresh air for Sara is Alek, an honest private investigator who had been fired from the police force by Stefan. Sara and Alek join forces to bring back the kidnapped victims, Rissa and Lara. Other unsung heroes in the quest are the computer geeks at the conference, who lend their expertise to locate the girls. Having gone through this harrowing ordeal, young Rissa decides to leave her study program in Belgrade and return to the United States. He bestie Lara will join Sara and Rissa as a happy family. As a parting remark about their nightmarish experience, Alek says to Sara, "I hope this hasn't spoiled Belgrade for you." Sara can only smile to Alek as she makes a beeline to the airport with Rissa and Lara in tow!

So bad!!! Please don't waste your time. Glup film.

Why would anyone make this? This is just terrible.

We LOVED this movie. Kept our attention to the very end. Suspenseful and well acted. Lots of Americans who travel throughout the world think that, when things go wrong, everything will work as it does in the US. Sorry. The really stoopid thing in this movie is near the end. Karissa hits the bad guy with the computer and her and her mom starts to leave the boat but they stop to talk about Lara's condition. How stupid. In real life, they would run like hell.

TV-14 Lifetime says it all about the quality of the script. Daughter is studying in Bulgaria. Mom visits and is there on a cyber security conference. With no surprise daughter is "Taken." Mom does not go Liam Neeson on anyone and uses her lock picking and cyber ability to find her because she is in a country where she can not trust anyone, even the police. Pretty straight forward, If you thought the film was great and had a twist, please feel free to put a gun to your head and leave my planet. You are part of the problem.

Lots of hokum and hard to believe this middle aged babe running around with too much hair blowing in the wind is even capable in finding her daughter. This actress is terrible. Bug eyed most of the time and talking tough, we are asked to believe her ranting and snooping. And she needs to have her roots bleached. Best performances come from the supporting cast. You root for the villains in this. Otherwise a waste of time.

Taut thriller in old Yugoslavia where a girl and her Serbian friend attending college there are both kidnapped by a group selling off girls for eventual prostitution. Luckily, our girl's mother arrives for an internet conference. An expert in the field, she goes all lengths to find the missing girls. There is plenty of intrigue here as you just don't know who to trust. The police are up to their necks in corruption as well. The film shows how modern technology can be used to catch the culprits. The mother perseveres in her hunt; although, it's more than coincidental that she finds a private detective who can be trusted and is not part of the mayhem.