Gone

John Chard

2014-05-11

⭐ 5

Kidnap Thriller 101. Sarcastic Spoilers Within Review. Off the bat lets say it, Gone is not a very bad movie, it has the requisite mystery elements, Amanda Seyfried makes for an engaging lead as the once kidnapped girl who nobody seems to believe, the cinematography (Michael Grady) is high quality and there's some decent moments of chills along the way. Unfortunately the film just exists as a case of unadventurous screenplay writing. Gone is written by Allison Burnett, who writes it like some homework assignment set by a bored lecturer at a film studies class. Everything about it is r…

The Movie Mob

2022-08-19

⭐ 6

**Overall : Could it have been better? Sure. Was it awful? No.** If you checked out the reviews for this movie elsewhere, you read that it is an absolute piece of garbage. And that just isn't true. It's a run-of-the-mill thriller with a very good performance by Amanda Seyfried as the main character that ends a little differently than expected. I enjoyed guessing who the killer was as the movie offered multiple red herrings to throw you off. Not one that I would say rush out to watch, but if you got a random need to watch a decent b-movie thriller, then maybe check this one out?

This is a treatise on the plight of white women. Not only will men kidnap you, but also when you escape no one will believe you! Why does every shot need to either be super claustrophobic or needlessly tracking? I felt like I was going to vomit. If I had, I would have enjoyed the taste in my mouth better than I enjoyed this piece of garbage. Maybe I'm being too harsh. There was a lot of stuff the Nancy Drew inside all of us would appreciate in this motion picture. Scratch that, I'm being commensurately harsh. Every character is either horribly stock or incredibly stupid, and the entire f…