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Mixed or average reviews- based on 52 Ratings

  • Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley
  • Summary: Jill Parrish comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back for her sister. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, Jill embarks on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister. (Summit Entertainment)


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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 15
  2. Negative: 9 out of 15
  1. Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    Feb 24, 2012
    67
    The film's pieces don't always fit together, but even in isolation, some of those pieces are well worth watching.
  2. Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    Feb 24, 2012
    58
    Which stinks worse? The absurdly large pile of red herrings Gone amasses? Or the film's sub-Scooby Doo conclusion?
  3. Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Feb 24, 2012
    38
    There's no thrill in Gone because you can see every surprise coming. It lies there flapping like a dying fish. Skip it.
  4. Reviewed by: R. Kurt Osenlund
    Feb 25, 2012
    38
    Nearly a year has passed since the release of Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, and Amanda Seyfried is still crying wolf.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 16
  2. Negative: 6 out of 16
  1. This looked good in the ads but we missed it opening weekend. Almost skipped it after reading reviews but decided to go anyway and were pleasantly surprised. Sure there where some things that were a stretch of reality, but not enough to kill the creepy, something bad is about to happen to her vibe. Definitely more entertaining than many of the movies getting better reviews, but then what else is new? Much more engaging than the well reviewed bad cop movie we saw last week and that seems to be a favorite with the critics. Expand
  2. 7
    It wasn't a fantastic film, but entertaining enough for the $1.27 Redbox rental. My absolute favorite part was the ending, which surprised me (in a good way). It isn't often enough that justice is TRULY done in this genre. Expand
  3. Amanda Seyfried is one of my favorite actresses and i think she tried her hardest to turn such a crappy script and plot into a decent watch.. but try and try as she might she failed.. the plot of the story was so boring and dragging i wanted to fall asleep! 97% of the movie you think she is psychotic chasing some man who doesn't exist, makes you lose faith in the movie when you can't even trust the main character. Very Disappointing.. I certainly won't be recommend it to anyone. Expand
  4. This late February release has the outer shell of The Silence of the Lambs; serial killer abducts a woman, throws her into the ground, and it's up to Clarice Starling (called Jill here) to rescue her before it's too late. But gone are the memorable characters and unforgettable performances, gone are the psychological insights and sexual undercurrent, and gone are the atmosphere of evil and looming menace. At least they got the title right. Jill's methodology holds the film's interest. She knows that people rarely believe her when she tells the truth about the abduction of herself or her sister, so she tells them lies they'll believe instead, whatever sob story it takes to get information out of her mark. She's not a legendary hacker or deductive sleuth; she's a pathological liar in search of the truth. While how it gets there holds interest, the story of Gone arrives at familiar beats; a betrayal as the film goes into the final stretch (from a character we haven't met yet), a high-speed car chase heralds the climax. The film runs on borrowed parts from better films (Silence of the Lambs) and lesser films (Kiss the Girls), and suffers from a lack of invention. Without proper setup, the film does not payoff to what little it builds up to, leaving a feeling of wanting more from 90 minute's investment. Expand

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