Girl in the Video (2024) User Reviews

The dangers hiding in social media platforms

[pumping_iron-1 · 7/10 · 14 February 2024]

First I want to say that this is a messed up world where perverts pay to watch children being abused.

I found this movie difficult to watch, but important to bring public awareness of catfishing. I knew going in that it would be hard to watch. So I tried to brace myself for things I would most likely see, or things that would be implied. But there is no way to prepare yourself for knowing that a child is being abused. It's just heartbreaking.

I've followed Cush Jumbo's career since her role in The Good Wife.

She plays Krissy's (Tia May Watts), the abducted girl's mother. I thought she did a good job. I think I heard her British accent creep in just once, very slightly.

I thought everyone was good in their roles, and the acting was above average for an LMN/Lifetime movie.

I don't care how savvy we think we are, catfishing is getting more and more dangerous. We must all be vigilant.

The ending made me emotional.

Film about abduction related to cyber crime.

[alexandrossfairopoulos · 1/10 · 20 January 2024]

This film within the first minutes, gives strong A. I. vibes. The plot , the characters, the dialogues everything feels so poorly written. I could swear that a quick interaction with Chat GPT would yield the same result as far as entertainment goes. Nothing ever happens on screen, there's no action , no character development and the most peculiar thing is that, it seems like the movie takes place almost entirely during the day! It made me question my existence and thus prompted me to make an account on this website, just to comment how much I hated the overall experience online. Overall a strong no from me.

I get the message but this was trash

[dariusratliff · 1/10 · 29 January 2024]

The daughter was a brat the first ten minutes she didn't do anything but have an attitude. The mom was clueless the only person with some sense was the brother. Lifetime could've done better with this movie it also played out very slowly took a while to get to the point. The cops were the usual slow moving lifetime cops who don't have a clue and really don't try to help. I just kept watching like (-_-) . Sad what happened but they all got on my nerves. It was very corny but show it to your pre teens it'll make them second guess talking and meeting up with strangers if you can get past the cringe.

Catfishers are still luring unsuspecting teens out there!

[Chartreuse1 · 8/10 · 14 January 2024]

Disturbingly good movie! Teens Chrissy and her brother, Robbie, are still mourning the loss of their dad as well as their mother, Mo. Krissy starts texting heavily with an older boy named Toby who asks her to go to a party with him. When Krissy asks mom if she can go, Mo says no but she sneaks out later on anyway to meet him and rides her bike. When a car pulls up, Krissy knows she's been duped but it's too late and masked "Toby" kidnaps her. When Mo wakes up next day to find Krissy missing and tries calling her with no answer, she contacts the school and then the police who actually listen to her and are on it! But things go from bad to worse when one of the detectives finds a disturbing video of Krissy on the dark web and alerts Mo and Robbie. But will any of them find Krissy in time before it's too late? This is a slow-burn Lifetime movie and quite good with a solid British cast! HIGHLY recommend. Thanks, Lifetime, for raising awareness of catfishing and showing how cunning the scammers have become!!!

Same movie different people

[wvhpgfn · 2/10 · 3 February 2024]

Well that was easy and this is why so many girls disappear every day having a boring home life shouldn't make you go online to trust anyone that says their some teenage boy having a party thought it was weird the girl didn't try to dress or do her hair to look like she was ready to go to a party she rides a bike into the deserted woods that's a big red flag you could get thousands of girls to watch this movie and they would still go meet a stranger these days internet and cells phones have helped corrupt these kids trying to find something to do I'm not even half way into the movie and I'm already over it they should have dragged it on some more before she was taken these are not good enough actors to watch a whole hour of searching for this girl.

A Sock Pocket and a Tor Onion!

[lavatch · 8/10 · 16 January 2024]

This film takes a sobering look at the so-called Dark Web, and it becomes highly technical with such terms as "sock pocket" and "Tor onion." In the placid community of Haverbrook, an unsuspectiing fifteen-year-old is kidnapped by a deranged "catfisher," who streams her period of captivity to a psychopathic clientele on the internet.

Young Krissy Meyer is the victim of the kidnapping. Her devoted mom Mo and her loving brother Robbie desperately assist the FBI in discovering the whereabouts of their loved one.

There is nothing I can add to the review of user "Chartreuse1," who has provided a superb recap of this powerful film. One of the points made by the reviewer was that the cast was entirely British. It was a amazing to observe how successfully the actors adopted American accents for members of the Haverbrook community.