Amanda Seyfried is waitress Jill who has nightmares of a past abduction. She lives with her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham) who is the smart sane sensible one of the two. When Molly goes missing, Jill goes into a frenzy thinking she too has been abducted by the same guy, even though the MO appears to be different.Amanda is a bit flighty when she goes to the police with her 1 hour missing sister story. Because there was no evidence from her last abduction...if fact it was contrary to her story, the police show reluctance to help Amanda, telling her to come back Monday if her sister is still missing. She also has a history of "Crying Wolf." Amanda is convinced it is the same guy who abducted her, and her sister is going to be killed tonight if she doesn't find her and the killer. Officer McKay seems willing to help, but his interest in Amanda comes across as less than professional and is suspect to anyone who watches these films. Molly's boyfriend (Sebastian Stan) has his doubts too and appears less than concerned as suspects mount. To add to that list of suspects there is the creepy neighbor as well as the creepy locksmiths.Armed with information from the creepy neighbor and a .38 Amanda won't sleep until the abductor is found.The ending was fine, but it needed a final Hitchcock twist. Seyfried looked stellar in a sea of prop actors.1 f-bomb, silhouette nudity, no sex

Portland, Oregon waitress Amanda Seyfried (as Jillian "Jill" Conway) gets home from the graveyard shift and discovers her sister is missing from the small house they share. Believing she was abducted, Ms. Seyfried contacts the cops. The police don't believe Seyfried. They think she is imagining an abduction. It turns out Sheffield is a former mental patient. Claiming to have survived her own abduction, she was found dirty and disheveled. However, an investigation could not find any evidence of the "pit" where Seyfried claimed she was held, along with the bones of other victims. With the police endeavoring to stop her, Seyfried conducts her own investigation...This story begins as a fairly typical abduction thriller. The sister goes missing, which is a crime needing resolution. Thankfully, the plot does not remain that simple. The "Gone" sister is trumped by another mystery. The real story becomes a questioning of the protagonist's sanity. Before finding out about the missing sister, we need to know if Seyfried's mind is "Gone". Developing these sister story lines, writer Allison Burnett weaves a good yarn, with director Heitor Dhalia and Seyfried handling their tasks well enough...The problem with "Gone" is that it takes too little advantage of its own intricacies. A finer picture would have worked out the complexities with more intrigue. For example, the inter-cutting of "flashback" (or "flash-forward") abduction scenes should have been be held off until after the police describe Seyfried's unconvincing (to them) abduction story; then, we can ponder the role inter-cut flashbacks play in her psyche. Later, we see our heroine driving headlong into danger. While we do roll with the punches and accept Seyfried as one incredible lucky sleuth, her long drive into danger is dumb; better to have had her assume her sister was at the crime scene, but not the abductor.****** Gone (2/21/12) Heitor Dhalia ~ Amanda Seyfried, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan

This well-directed if thinly scripted thriller has more-than-adequate supporting performances by a good cast, but almost all are given little to do beyond providing the backdrop for Amanda Seyfried's Jill. And Jill has us in her corner from start-to-finish as she tries to overcome her branded-as-delusional history to race against time to save her sister's life. The police and her psychiatrist do everything possible to undermine her efforts.Now don't over-analyze the plot or view this in context of what would happen in the real world. It won't hold up if you do but such scrutiny would be missing the fun. This is not a docudrama.There are plenty of thrillers with driven protagonists bit Seyfried's remarkable and multi-layered performance puts this one two notched above most. Score is perfect for the movie, understated but drive. I give this an 8/10. Be seated with your popcorn and go to the bathroom before you sit down and watch, turning your cell phone off. You won't want to be interrupted during this one.

This movie had enough decent acting and created enough questions to make you think there was more to the plot. But in the end (spoiler alert) the girl they thought was crazy, was not. Surprise? No not really. See When a Stranger Calls for a somewhat similar plot, but more scary.Amanda Seyfried turned in a credible performance as a young woman of questionable sanity. She was also a compulsive liar. You learn that she was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for a supposed kidnapping of her that the cops determined never happened.But flashbacks keep you guessing. And there are enough crazy, odd people that she meets that keep you guessing. Spoiler - when her younger sister goes missing, she fears her kidnapper returned. The part with her having a gun was really way overblown. Oh my God, a crazy person on the streets with a gun, that's never happened before. They sick the entire Portland PD on her. Again, somewhat overblown.At one point, you even suspect Molly's boyfriend, but helas, no, not that good. So when Amanda goes into the woods at the end, how could the bad guy's phone keep working when hers didn't? Whatever, because by that point, you knew she wasn't crazy. They tried to do a Silence of the Lambs to make you think the sister was there, but she was actually somewhere else. But OK, what difference did that make? The sister was still free. Amanda should have just left. but no, she wants revenge, vigilante style.The ending was a fireball so to speak, and that's one bad guy you won't see again. Amanda kicked some butt and wins. I wouldn't watch this twice, but if you go in with average expectations for a mild thriller, this movie fits the bill.