Spent most of last week doing groceries to restock pile my dwindling food and household consumables. Ya-la... and also hoping to save a buck or two when the price of goods start climbing up due to the damn cascading effect from the petrol price increase a forthnite ago by buying early. It got a little tiring, so decided to catch a movie for a short break before resuming shopping in another outlet.

I had a choice of either M. Night Sharmalan's "The Happening" or Tsui Hark's "Missing". CL wanted to watch the latter ever since it came out, so we went ahead with it. I kinda like Tsui Hark's movies so it was no biggie.

Basically, it revolves around the story of this high profile photographer dude who tried to propose to his girl by hiding the engagement engagement ring in this ancient underwater ruins off the coast of Japan during one of his dives with her. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned and the romantic underwater proposal goes horribly wrong.

The local cinemas tried marketing this movie as a supernatural flick, but honestly, it didn't feel like one. It was more like a cross between a thriller and a drama. The cinematography was really good with plenty of awe inspiring underwater shots. The first half of the movie had great pacing and the story unfolded beautifully.

Unfortunately, the second half was't as good. It was like Tsui Hark suddenly kinda lost direction and couldn't decide how to end the movie. There were several points whereby I thought that was how the movie was going end, but it suddenly took a 180 degree turn and revealed a totally new angle to the story.

Thankfully, there were several nicely done scenes which were done nicely and you could really feel the tug on your heart. The scene where Guo Xiao Dong and Lee Sinje's characters finally embrace after all the madness they went through was really touching.

This, I feel, was worth the price of the ticket alone.

Ultimately, if you could spare slightly more than 2 hours during a lazy weekend, this movie might be worth your time...  ;)