I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Absolutely the worst movie.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I wholeheartedly CONCUR with "julesrulesny" assessment of the network's pulling the plug on "Missing". Did you see the 2012 Emmy broadcast? You know...the awards show wherein NONE of the four original networks were NOMINATED for awards for TV Drama?!!They HAD a good thing in Missing and they BLEW IT. It was severely underestimated and might have been a case of self-fulfilling prophecy. As in, "I think I heard a neighbor of my daughter's who said he didn't like it, so let's pull it off the air".Whatever...Jimmy Kimmel mentioned the absence of the networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS) nominations, tossing it off as the citizenry "wanting to see boobs" which was underestimating the loathing the people of the U.S. have for the original three. If you want good shows, tune in to AMC, Fox, TNT, USA! Screw the networks who are under the thumbs of censors! I worked in the film business for 30 years and have been watching TV Drama for twice that long and MY assessment? Missing...another show too good for TV.

Really, I can't believe the ratings on IMDb anymore. People must watch one episode of a TV show and then come right over and rate it a 3.After watching the pilot, I couldn't wait to see what would happen. There is a certain dynamic between the characters that makes the show realistic but also gives you some laughs (or maybe just smiles). And yes, I think the casting is pretty good. Cliff Curtis just has the face of a government agent (let me tell you, I know a few) and the Interpol agent is especially believable (he IS Italian).As for Ashley Judd, I don't get why people say she is not believable as a mom that kicks butt. Before this show we had Gina Carano taking down men in Haywire so just because Ashley Judd hasn't trained her whole life or been in a similar role doesn't mean she can't do it. The premise of the show is that she was ONE OF THE BEST agents.After watching 7 episodes, the plot is totally not like Taken. It has expanded a lot more and unlike what other reviewers have said, you can't tell where it's going. I have watched (and am watching) plenty of shows and this one is not stuck in a rut. So give it a chance! :-)

there are really only two reasons i am watching this, I like Ashley Judd and I live in Prague and that is the home base for shooting this series, so while they do establishing shots of Paris and Rome, many of those scenes were actually shot in Prague, so it's fun to see if I can recognize where they are.And one of my favorite Czech actors, Karel Roden, is the main bad guy, which is his usual role in American films.it's a nice time waster with pretty locations but completely unbelievable, Ashley is good as is the guy who plays Dax and of course we have Sean Bean.... the actor who is her son isn't bad either....

Do folks remember Human Target, which was kind of light and charming entertainment, the way The Fall Guy from the 80s was? Do you remember how ratings went down in Season 2, when they put in all that cheesy relationship stuff, while we were used to have a good and perhaps silly action show instead? Human Target should have been a warning to any producer that (bad and cheesy!) melodrama and action/suspense just don't mix. What was the downfall for Human Targets season 2, might well become the downfall for Missing, right from it's very beginning.It's okay to have some dump and thrilling action (like breaking into the French Intelligence Service by hitting the fire alarm, hahaha, what a joke!) as long a show is consistent in being dump and silly - it's quiet alright really, if you just wanna have some fun with the "incredible". If the fire alarm thing had happened in Human Target, it might have gotten away with that. Missing does not.Having melodrama along the ride, the most serious of all ingredients, just doesn't make a good mix with dumb action. Look at the canceled Terra Nova. Did SciFi and soapish family drama make a good mix?So if the action is dump, you might ask, does the cheese and melodrama come across believable and heartwarming or heart breaking? The answer is a simple "Nope" - which means, there are more troubles here than just mixing dumbness with seriousness. Perhaps the show isn't very honest not only with the mixture of ingredients, but the single ingredients too? An example (SPOILERS):In Episode two the Harddrive guy tells our main character, she must stop thinking like a mother and be a cold analytical agent again. In a later scene we have HIM remind her of she being a mother, her love of her son - all that stuff - while they on the job! If motherhood is what he believes makes her loose focus, why won't he shut his mouth about it?! The hardrive character makeup is sacrificed here, to highlight our heroines emotions and it's not even very well written, it is total cheese. And why do we have to be reminded of motherhood anyways, as if it were some alien concept or something you would need to clarify the emotions that are involved?! What do we need to know to understand her character, that leads to her (the) action(s). We need to know this:She's a former agent, she is able, her son has been kidnapped and she's gonna do something about that. Period. We can have the show highlight her emotions when the show itself is on it's emotional high - when she fails at a certain action task, she is crushed, when she prevails she is hopeful or joyful. But driving in a car and needing Hardrive to have a family on it's own to have a talk about parenthood, thats an emotional filler. It is wrong and it is out of place. You don't tell a story like that. You built a tide and you ride on that tide, you have the emotions go up and down on with that tide or you don't have a touching story, you end up having it being cheesy and to greater effect: Untrue. But then the action (fire alarm) is untrue too, so perhaps this makes the show okay again? Like dumbness on both levels bringing some kind of balance? Dumb is dumb, make no mistake about that, it only adds up.So. If you don't make the action any smarter lets look at the cheese again. We need scenes were we see her feel the loss (like when the boy is kidnapped into the van, when she discovers the fotos in the warehouse, when the plane gets away with him), cheese that is connected to the action, not as an end in itself - so PLEASE!!!!! leave it at that. The TALK about motherhood really isn't necessary at all, we know what makes her tick and drives her from the very first minute! We don't need any pseudo-philosophical debate about motherhood, in a way that it sacrifices the characters (like Harddrive) involved and the good action we see.Establishing emotions can always come across as cheesy. Thats why you use it sparecly and at the right moment and not just so. Oh and having our characters do something dump because it is good action (like climbing that wall to get into the French Intelligence offices) that's alright too, as long as our characters are smart enough, finding out, there is no other way to do it. The audience is very aware there was another option than climbing that wall. Perhaps if there had been guards on the stairwell who would not move despite the fire alarm, it would have been more believable. It would have taken a single camera shot to establish going up the stair was no option. It also have a been moment for a mother who wants to safe her son have that sinking feeling, you know, instead talking about it in a boring disconnected car scene! EDIT: JUST WATCHED EPISODE 3. SPOILERS!!!! Plot holes: - How did our heroines friend end up finding her in the first place? Why is our heroine so stupid to have the bag with the fake passports in it just sitting on her bed? Why is the friend opening it in the first place? Why kidnap that friend to a boat without gagging her, so she can attack you the first chance she gets? Were exatcly did our heroine drop those diamonds and who will go salvage them so the show can afford having a rewrite for its scripts?! Yeah, though so!