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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Lack of good storyline.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is one of those movies where the lead performance can carry it with a decent plot. Amanda Seyfried's performance was the highlight in this suspense thriller where her sister vanishes from her house, and she is certain that the sister was abducted by the same person who had abducted her a few years earlier. The problem is, the police did not believe her when she reported her own abduction, due to her mental condition at the time, and they do not believe her now, so she is pretty much on her own, with the exception of one officer new on the case who seems to believe her. She makes all the right moves in her "investigation," there are some good twists and turns, and it leads to a good showdown at the end.This movie was very suspenseful all around with an excellent performance in the lead and a good supporting cast. You might not expect what happens at the end. I recommend it.*** out of ****

It's like a young woman version of The Fugitive where the heroin must dig deep to find the courage and resourcefulness to face adversity and danger, save herself and solve a crime while running from the law.I found the acting a little blend but the actors easy on the eyes and certainly cared for the struggling heroin to succeed by the end. The pacing and tension seemed balanced to me with the action not overly violent or gratuitous.The picture was very clear; streamed online in high definition resolution. Overall, not great or inspiring but not a bad way to be entertained.

Gone (2012): Dir: Heitor Dhalia / Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan, Wes Bentley: Thriller with a title that references the missing sister as well as the heroine's emotional and mental state. Amanda Seyfried plays a kidnap survivor who arrives home from her night job as a waitress only to discover that her sister is missing. She goes to the police but they are unconvinced since she never got a look at her attacker from before. Since the police are useless she decides to search herself thus causing alarm for law enforcement who feel that she is losing her mind. Director Heitor Dhalia showcases ominous forestry particularly during the dark moonlight when Seyfried answers a phone call connection to her captor. The plot is familiar yet remains compelling through Seyfried's sense of violation and loss as she runs through several obstacles and plot turns that ultimately arrive to a rather pathetic conclusion that is all too convenient. It seems to ask viewers to excuse a particular action that comes off as a stupid plot convention as oppose to effective storytelling. Seyfried holds strong but supporting roles are weak. The law enforcement in particular seem under attacks perhaps from a failed justice system and our desire to deal out justice when the system fails. Then we have an array of potential sinister looking suspects that merely play off stereotypes. Rather than address the idea of missing persons, the conclusion proves that thriller conventions are the norm with a villain that is too obvious and hardly an advance on a screenplay that was already gone by this point. Score: 5 ½ / 10

Average. That's how I see most films these days - Hollywood churning out more of the same - the same sort of horror films, the same sort of comedies, the same sort of superhero movies. Some are good and stick in your mind, others just fall into that big put of car crashes and shoot-outs somewhere in the back of your mind as they merge together.'Gone' is average. There is little special here - a girl, who might or might not have been kidnapped and escaped from a serial killer, loses her sister and is convinced the killer has come back for her. Is she mad, or telling the truth? However, despite an overall 'seen-it-all-before' feel to its synopsis, Gone isn't actually that bad.It had a certain something that, although it's only an average movie, at least managed to hold my attention for the ninety minutes. It had a good story. The characters weren't totally stupid and kept running back into burning houses and stuff. Then it was all nicely wrapped up at the end.You may have watched a million similar movies, but, if you think you might like the sound of this one, give it a go - you might be right (plus, Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Carpenter are in it - so maybe it's just one for the lads).http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/