More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. When her sister disappears, Jill is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, and she sets out to once again face her abductor.
No one believes her. Nothing will stop her. Action Adventure Mystery Thriller. Rated PG for violence and terror, some sexual material, brief language and drug references. Did you know Edit. Trivia Director Heitor Dhalia stated to Brazilian newspapers that he had no control over this movie and that all the major decisions were made by the studio.
He couldn't even meet actress Amanda Seyfried before shooting to rehearse and prepare her for the role. Dhalia almost took his name out of the project, but in the end decided not to. Goofs Jill's neighbor tells her that the mysterious van was outside her house at am, but when she confronts the locksmith she asks him if it was there at am. Quotes Custodian : What if you don't show up? User reviews Review. Top review. Better than expected, Gone lets us take chase with a chameleon in search of the last piece of an abduction puzzle.
This movie was well paced and well acted by Seyfried. Throwing caution to the wind, Jill follows his directions. Cell phone towers must be pretty prominent because she converses with this dastard for what seems forever. You can figure out after about an hour of "Gone" elapses that Jill Conway may be crazy but crazy like a fox. This make the Portland Police look pretty bad after they send her packing. Credibility is the key to everything that occurs in "Gone," and you know that Jill is on the right trail when her missing sister still doesn't turn up.
Everybody but one cop treats Jill as credible, but he vanishes from the action, prompts us to believe that he may have something more to do with the case. Meanwhile, the cops do their dead level best to find Jill. Of course, these incompetent cretins blow that objective, too. As Jill questions people who may have information about her sister, she lies about the circumstances surrounding the case. Mind you, Jill goes out on a flimsy limb with her plethora of lies.
Nevertheless, you know that she is not the lunatic that the police are making her out to be. The problem is that the serial killer who had abducted Jill and several other poor, innocent girls, isn't given enough screen time to make an impression.
The filmmakers are so intent on making us believe that Jill is crazy that they treat all the other characters as secondary. At the same time, Jill finds herself in jeopardy only once and only for a few minutes when she tangles with her former captor. The dialogue is as forgettable as the characters are one dimensional. There are no genuine surprises that could with the revelation about who the serial killer is or what his motives were.
One of the Portland police detectives exits the film for a long stretch making himself look suspicious. Eventually, after Jill proves that she isn't a lunatic, she dispenses vigilante justice. Occasionally, "Gone" recalls the Ashley Judd thriller "Kiss the Girls," but neither Dhalia nor Burnett conjure up any surprises that make you catch your breath.
The far-fetched ending and the incredible cell phone that our heroine can talk on for long lengths of time in the depths of the woods undermine this occasionally atmospheric nail-biter. The performances by Seyfried and solid cast are the film's sole saving grace. At best, "Gone" is a streaming rental that you will forget not long after you've seen it. Jill Amanda Seyfried lives with her sister Molly. When Molly goes missing one night while Jill is at work, Jill is convinced that Molly has been taken by the man who abducted Jill a year ago, and that Molly will be killed if she is not found.
Unfortunately, given that Jill could not recall where she had escaped from, the police believed that she had made everything up and she spent some months in a mental hospital. They don't believe her now either and are more interested in stopping Jill looking for Molly than in looking for her themselves. This is a paranoia suspense mystery, in which we have to walk the tightrope of whether Jill is as delusional as the police think she is or whether she is, as she thinks, her sister's only hope.
I'm not going to spoil the party by saying which it is. This is in many ways a routine thriller of its particular type. There is, perhaps, too much time spent on the police chasing Jill and not enough on Jill chasing down the possibly delusional leads as to her sister's abduction, and I found myself wondering whether the police would really be as unwilling as all that to even consider whether Molly had actually disappeared or not: the police single-mindedness annoyed me because, while the film lays both options out for you, it clearly seeks to portray Jill as a sympathetic protagonist.
And the ending was a bit "Oh. So what. 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.
FlashCallahan 9 June So this is supposed to be a thriller. Amanda Seyfried is becoming the new name to avoid at the cinema. She has talent, but she really has to concentrated on getting the right script, because her career will go the same way as her co-star Bentley. She plays some girl who escaped a kidnapper, and now the Guy is back and has taken her sister.
That's the story. The difference this time is that everyone thinks she is crazy, and she has taken a few fighting lessons, so she hasn't really got anything to lose. She steals cars, threatens people with guns, and in the most despicable scene promises two girls Justin Bieber tickets. It could have been okay, but the problem with the film is that it doesn't carry one single surprise. I really thought Bentley was the kidnapper, right until the end, because he has nothing to do in the film.
He literally shows up for five minutes in the second act, and at the end, he does nothing else, he had to be the killer, but no, it's just how far down the pan the guys career has gone. In the end, here is no revelation, just a crass death and finishes. A waste of a film, and about twenty years too late.
There were some terrible reviews for this movie so my expectations were low. It isn't that bad. It's quite engrossing and you want to see what happens and how things work out. It's quite amusing to see how Amanda Seyfried evades the cops till the end. There are red herrings pointing to a twist. But the twist is there is no twist.
That is a bit disappointing. Doesn't really explain why the cops were so reluctant to do anything. The ending feels anti climactic. Thought it was pointing to her being crazy. But it wasn't. Overall worth 1 watch but don't expect much. Not a clever movie but keeps you watching to see what happens. Why some movies make it in the box office and others don't is a conundrum. GONE is a beautifully conceived and acted and directed suspense thriller that has many levels of meaning.
Much of the success of the film is due to the brilliant writing of Allison Burnett, one of our finest writers of novels I've read them all - the brilliant 'Christopher', 'The House Beautiful', 'Death by Sunshine', and 'Undiscovered Gyrl' - and screenplays for 'Fame', 'Untraceable', 'Feast of Love', 'Resurrecting the Champ' and others.
His name deserves to be in the top credits for this stunning little thriller. It appears that one of his novels, 'Undiscovered Gyrl' is in production as a film. He is a major talent. During the opening credits we meet Jill Conway Amanda Seyfried walking through a dense forest, map in hand, searching for something.
Jill is a young Portland woman who lives with her sister, recovering alcoholic Molly Emily Wickersham. The year before, Jill was kidnapped by a serial killer who abandoned her in a hole in the forest, where she found human remains. When her abductor descended into the hole to kill her, Jill was able to stab him with a bone and climb his rope and return to civilization.
However, the police didn't find the hole and discovered that Jill had been committed to a psychiatric institution for several years after her parents' death. Believing that the abduction only happened in Jill's head, they closed the case.
Yet one day, after returning home from work at a local diner, where she and her friend Sharon Ames Jennifer Carpenter are generously tipped by a regular customer about to move out of town, Jill finds Molly gone and is unable to reach her boyfriend, Billy Sebastian Stan. Knowing that Molly wouldn't leave the house with Jill absent and that she had an important test the following day, Jill becomes convinced that the man who took her has now captured Molly and heads to the police station to ask for help, but Sargent Powers Daniel Sunjata and Detective Erica Lonsdale Katherine Moennig dismiss her claims and promise to look into the case after a few days: Jill claims it will be too late by then.
Before she leaves, newcomer Detective Peter Hood Wes Bentley pulls her aside and tells her he believes her, giving Jill his card in case she needs help. Jill found human remains, used one of the bones to stab her abductor, and escaped from the hole, using his rope ladder. When the Portland police are unable to find the hole, and discover that Jill had been committed to a psychiatric institution after her parents' death, they believe the abduction only happened in Jill's head, and sent Jill back to a psychiatric facility.
A year later, Jill now works as a waitress in a local diner on the graveyard shift. She and her friend Sharon Ames Jennifer Carpenter are generously tipped by a regular customer. Returning home from the shift, Jill is shocked to discover Molly is missing, as she was to take an exam the next day and wanted Jill to wake her early.
Molly's boyfriend, Billy Sebastian Stan , tells her that he hasn't heard from Molly, and later that she didn't show up for the exam. Jill is then convinced the serial killer who took her has now taken Molly. Police Lt. The department's newest homicide detective, Peter Hood Wes Bentley , tells her that he believes her, giving Jill his card in case she needs any help about the case. Jill interrogates her neighbors and learns that a van with a locksmith company's name on it parked in front of her house in the middle of the night.
When Nick denies any knowledge, Jill breaks into the van, where she finds a receipt from a hardware store for things that the killer would use. Jill holds Nick at gunpoint and forces him to reveal that he allowed a stranger named "Digger" to rent the van during the night.
Nick reports Jill's gun-waving behavior to the police, who then want to arrest Jill, as her time in the psychiatric facility means she can not legally possess a weapon. Jill goes to the hardware store, and learns that Digger's real name is Jim LaPointe Socratis Otto and that he's staying at a rundown hotel. After narrowly eluding the police, Jill heads to the hotel, and breaks into LaPointe's room, where she finds duct tape, pet food like that which she was given by her kidnapper, and matches from the diner where she works.
Realizing that her sister is safe, Jill pours kerosine into the hole and burns the kidnapper alive. When she gets home, she finds her sister and all the detectives waiting for her on the porch.
The detectives ask Jill where they can find the kidnapper, but she just ignores them and walks into the house, with her sister. Gone Submitted by Alan G 1 votes 5.
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