Saturday, 7 April 2012

Missing - Pilot Review



Sean Bean just doesn't have any luck.  First he get his head lopped off halfway through the first season of Game of Thrones and now he gets blown to pieces in the very first scene of the pilot episode of Missing.  

Ten years later, his middle aged widow, Becca Winstone (Ashley Judd) is a ex- professional spy turned creepy overprotective mother that trades her flower shop for some serious ass kicking action when her only son goes missing whilst studying in Rome.  Brandishing coat hangers and letter openers, Becca dons a pink sweater and goes into frenzied maternal overdrive when she realises that her son has been kidnapped.  In pursuit of the bad guys, she scales buildings, picks locks, races a Vespa and kills a professional assassin with her bare hands, all within the first 20 minutes.

Totally unbelievable and extremely entertaining, the pilot of this fast paced action drama was shot on location in Paris and Rome.

Missing crashes onto M-Net on Saturdays at 20h00