Just perfect...

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Gone is a movie that has a good many hits and a few misses. Amanda Seyfried is one of the film's hits, she really gives a skillful performance as the lead. She plays a tough as nails, no nonsense, heroine that will stop at nothing to save her sister from the same thing she went through. The big question that everyone is asking is: did Amanda's character just imagine that she was kidnapped or did it really happen and is her sister suffering the same fate? The writing is overall pretty good, could have been better in some places, but overall it's good. The action is average, still well done, but it's the same kind of stuff you'll see in many other films of this genre. Something that I really liked was the dialogue, especially between two characters in particular, won't say who because of potential spoilers. I suggest this film due to it's anxiety inducing thrills and the strong lead performance by Seyfried. 7/10 for Gone (2012).

'Gone' is my kind of movie. I love a film where you are never entirely sure what is going on. It's a fantastic element for a film to possess, because it keeps the audience involved and interested. 'Gone' is quite a clever story in that sense. In fact it's almost a little too clever for its own good - but we'll get to that a little later. The story revolves around a former kidnap victim whose sister goes missing. We then follow her journey to try and track down the sister's whereabouts. The mystery is both present in the whereabouts of the sister and also whether there is another level to the mystery or not (it has been made clear that she is not entirely right in the mind after the events that happened to her - and even those events actually having happened are under suspicion).Sound like a good set up for a film? It certainly does to me. As I mentioned earlier though the film is a little too clever for its own good. What I meant by that was that the film set itself up for endless possibilities and the chance to have a really clever and mind-blowing ending. Unfortunately though it somehow manages to dodge all that potential and comes up with something extremely bland instead. It sounds like the director wasn't too happy with the studio intervention, and I have to imagine this was the biggest argument they had. A real let down and one of the few flaws I could find with an otherwise excellent film. The pacing is great, the acting is terrific and it's a fun journey. Just try not to let the ending leave too much of a sour taste in your mouth.

A woman believes that her sister has been kidnapped by the same man that kidnapped her the year before, but she escaped. The story line is great. It's refreshing to watch a movie that is actually suspenseful and has a strong female lead. It kept me guessing throughout the movie over what exactly was going on, or how it was going to end. There are some really creepy characters in this film, and once the The writing was really good. Once the momentum of the story began, it just keeps rolling. The ending was fantastic. I don't understand why there are so many bad reviews for this movie...or maybe I do - heaven forbid a strong female character be the focus of a film where she doesn't need to be rescued.

***SPOILERS**** it's when her kid sister Molly Conway, Emily Wickersham, doesn't show up for a test she's to take at her collage Jill, Amanda Seyfried, feels that she's been kidnapped by the person who kidnapped her two years ago and held her hostage in a pit at the spacious, where no one can find her,Forest Park until she somehow escaped. Looking like twins Jill a former mental patient feels the kidnapper had mistaken her sister Molly for her in him trying to finish the job, killing Jill, that he at first started. And Jill is now determined to not only have the local Portland police rescue Molly but catch her kidnapper before he does any more kidnapping and murdering young girls in the area.As you would expect no one believes Jill in that she's been diagnosed as being mentally unstable and suffering from hallucinations but that makes her even more determined to go on her own-Gun in hand- to find her sister before , like many of her kidnapper's victims, she ends up dead & buried. The rest of the movie has the slight and barley 100 pound Jill doing a both Charles Bronson's "Death Wish" and Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" bit taking on all commers, good & bad, in order to find and save her sister Molly. Whom the local police headed by Let. Ray "Boze" Bozeman, Michael Pare, feel that she just eloped with her boyfriend and that's all there is to it.***SPOILERS*** Unbelievable and off the wall final with the kidnapper Jim LaPointe known on the streets as "Digger Phelps", Socratis Otto, in an effort to trick Jill into getting trapped, in the ditch that he held her hostage two years ago, ending up falling and breaking his back where Jill, now in control of the situation, ending up doing the guy in by drenching him with a can of kerosene , that the jerk in fact provided for her, and setting him on fire! As for Molly she seemed to have been in no danger at all as she showed up unhurt moments before the movie ended! After what seemed like suffering from a slight case of amnesia and losing her way when going to take her collage exam.