Strong and Moving!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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

Portland, Oregon waitress Amanda Seyfried (as Jillian "Jill" Conway) gets home from the graveyard shift and discovers her sister is missing from the small house they share. Believing she was abducted, Ms. Seyfried contacts the cops. The police don't believe Seyfried. They think she is imagining an abduction. It turns out Sheffield is a former mental patient. Claiming to have survived her own abduction, she was found dirty and disheveled. However, an investigation could not find any evidence of the "pit" where Seyfried claimed she was held, along with the bones of other victims. With the police endeavoring to stop her, Seyfried conducts her own investigation...This story begins as a fairly typical abduction thriller. The sister goes missing, which is a crime needing resolution. Thankfully, the plot does not remain that simple. The "Gone" sister is trumped by another mystery. The real story becomes a questioning of the protagonist's sanity. Before finding out about the missing sister, we need to know if Seyfried's mind is "Gone". Developing these sister story lines, writer Allison Burnett weaves a good yarn, with director Heitor Dhalia and Seyfried handling their tasks well enough...The problem with "Gone" is that it takes too little advantage of its own intricacies. A finer picture would have worked out the complexities with more intrigue. For example, the inter-cutting of "flashback" (or "flash-forward") abduction scenes should have been be held off until after the police describe Seyfried's unconvincing (to them) abduction story; then, we can ponder the role inter-cut flashbacks play in her psyche. Later, we see our heroine driving headlong into danger. While we do roll with the punches and accept Seyfried as one incredible lucky sleuth, her long drive into danger is dumb; better to have had her assume her sister was at the crime scene, but not the abductor.****** Gone (2/21/12) Heitor Dhalia ~ Amanda Seyfried, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan

I saw yesterday night this movie and I have to say it is not bad at all. The story is about a teen girl that was abduct a year ago and escaped from his abductor and now her sister is gone and she believe that she is abducted from the same guy.The thing is that the police believe that the girl (Amanda Seyfried) is just crazy... The plot is nice and keeps you aware and try to guess what is happening.The plot doesn't have lacks and you don't understand when the 90' of the movie pass. The movie is smart and doesn't make you bored and the acting for my standards are good.The PG-13 is right and you will not scare only just a bit in one or two scenes. It is a classic mystery movie and i recommend it. 7/10*