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Gone (2012)

Director: Heitor Dhalia

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From Time Out London

Everything about ‘Gone’ has the plasticy, leatherette feel of an imitation thriller. Amanda Seyfried stars, scrunching up her Bambi features into a troubled face to play Jill – who 12 months ago escaped a serial killer whose MO is abducting cute blondes and stashing them in the woods.

The police think she’s a hysteric and say serious cop things like, ‘You need help, Jill’ or ‘Let it go, Jill’. But when her big sis vanishes, Jill knows the killer is back. ‘I’ll sleep when he’s dead,’ she says, clutching her manila folder of missing women.

Luck would have it that after a couple clicks on Google Jill finds a suspect, whose neighbour confirms her suspicions: ‘My girlfriend says he has rape-y eyes.’ Well, that solves that. Or does it? You wouldn’t put a spot of blonde-snatching past the detective (Wes Bentley) brooding about in black and disappearing shiftily every time things hot up.

Not that anything really hots up. Whenever it hungers for a plot development, the script throws in a red herring or an action shot of Seyfried: Look she runs! Look she takes a shower! (Possibly the naffest softcore shower scene ever).

Poor Seyfried. It’s fast looking like the highlight of her career was ‘Mamma Mia!’ As for poor Jill, she makes the classic schoolgirl error of allowing herself to be lured to an abandoned cabin in the woods – needless to say this is not the cabin in the woods you’ll be wanting to see this weekend.

Author: Cath Clarke

Time Out London Issue 2174: April 19 -25, 2012

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scrumpyjack said...

Posted on May 01 2012 22:41 Perfectly enjoyable "Friday night" flick. Tedious snobbery above....we would be shocked at anything else. 6/10

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Ed said...

Posted on Apr 27 2012 21:17 She has a pretty good point... This film was dull, the writing was lazy and unimagionative. When you pay to see something on the big screen you expect a certain quality from the producers, and in that respect this film was a let down.

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dismayed said...

Posted on Apr 23 2012 15:58 What a lazy, lazy review, possessed of all the original thought of a lemming.

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USMAN LATIF KHAWAJA said...

Posted on Apr 22 2012 08:49 ARCHGATE - U R TOTALLY RIGHT -THIS MOVIE IS BETTER THAN A LOT OF TRASH HOOLYWOOD MAKING THESE DAYS .shame on TO

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ARCHGATE said...

Posted on Apr 21 2012 20:21 Quite a good audience turned out to see this film today. Proving that there is an audience for low level thrillers. The film was passable as entertainment - which is more than can be said of this spiteful Time Out review - which resembles an attack on a young actress. Shameful writing in my opinion. So let me reciprocate and say that I never want to read another film review by Cath Clarke.

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