After serving a 15-year prison sentence, a serial killer is set free, and a young woman is waiting for him—she wants revenge after he killed her father, who was a cop.
Missing You is directed by the director who made Our Town, a decent serial killer movie from 2007. He has only directed three movies; his first two are about serial killers. I like Missing You more than Our Town.
This is a really entertaining thriller where the young woman is mentally destroyed after losing her father at a young age because of the serial killer. But the serial killer denies that he has killed a lot of people, so since the evidence is weak against him, he is released after spending 15 years in prison. That makes it interesting, because you know there’s something wrong with him after he killed his girlfriend, but is he really a serial killer, and did he kill the girl’s father or not? Because in the dark, another person is lurking, and this person isn’t an angel. That grabs your attention, and it’s also interesting to follow the girl, who is messed up and seems like she could also become a serial killer.
This isn’t a movie for people who need logic when they watch movies like Missing You. This is an entertaining, stupid, and pretty well-acted movie where Kim Sung-oh steals the show. He is so good in this movie. He looks unhealthy, and the way he killed his girlfriend and his perverted side was pretty funny. He is so crazy good in Missing You, and this man is born to play serial killers. He is absolutely one of the best actors I have ever seen as a serial killer because of his looks and intensity.
Shim Eun-kyung is also excellent as the mentally broken girl. She is a strange character, and at the start, I was a little unsure if she was slow or just mentally broken. She and Kim Sung-oh have excellent chemistry when they first stand face to face.
The only thing I didn’t quite like was the last scene that took place in court, which was pretty cheesy. The ending, which I guess is supposed to be shocking, was the right choice because of how the character was written. It couldn’t have ended any other way.
If you like dark but entertaining South Korean serial killer movies, then you should watch Missing You. There’s not much hope in Missing You, and this feels like one of the last real South Korean serial killer movies they made before they sold their soul to the West and lost their identity again.