Flyingpepe Review of Missing 411: The Hunted

Missing 411: The Hunted (2019)

Beautiful but lacks validity

[1/10 · 6 July 2019]

It's a visually stunning documentary, containing beautiful shots of the national forests accompanied by animated maps that enhance the experience. But apart from that it totally misses the mark. Supposedly there's something mysterious about these 411 cases and yet the cases chosen in this documentary could be explained using very plausible and scientific theories.

• Commonalities between the cases are older age, disabilities and harsher weather conditions. All things that put these people in a disadvantage of survival and finding their way back and yet the documentary doesn't really acknowledge that.
• The documentary often points out the irrational evidence, claiming the behavior of the (later recovered) missing people makes little to no sense, but fails to mention that hypothermia can cause confusion, memory loss and disorientation.
• Some bodies are found naked or partially undressed. Again "very strange" according to the documentary. This can also happen during hypothermia. The victims experience a heat flash, causing them to undress in an effort to cool down.
• A lot of evidence isn't examined objectively and the narrator jumps to conclusions and states those as though they are factual. For example that belongings were placed deliberately to be found. That's a plausible theory, but it cannot be proven.
• Towards to end of the documentary they suddenly introduce supposed evidence of paranormal activity including strange sounds and lights, which made me think of aliens and bigfoot. It confused me at first, until I read that the man behind the movie and books has written a book which supposedly proves the existence of bigfoot.

I could go on, but I think I've gotten my point across. All in all, the documentary is very biased. The narrator does not accept any rational explanations, dismisses evidence and makes his own conclusions sound like the truth.