Everything is 'Gone'.

For a budding young talent, dull and sluggish materials seem to barricade the efforts of the actor to walk to a celebrating career. For Amanda Seyfried, this is proven as truth. She have been smothered with projects that are shoddy as they could get and as a result inflicts cracking to her usual lustrous skills. Evidence: "Jennifer's Body", she plays as Needy, a dork who is suspended in a fiendish situation involving her "evil" bitch-friend, Megan Fox; and "Red Riding Hood", a dull film about a werewolf story that almost insult her acting skills. In this latest, I don't know and it's painful to say, that Seyfried for once became a Kristen Stewart in the film, 'Gone'. Emotion-less, hollow-eyed and non-convincing, she is in this.

Seyfried is Jill, a traumatized young woman who is trying to recover from her last year's assault and rape. Everything seemed to be working out fine; she continues on with her job as a night shift waitress and she lives with her sister peacefully. However the paranoia seemed to position beneath her shadows: quadrupling the locks of her door, installing silly security measures in her home and the list could continue on. She almost gets used to this phase until one night.

It shatters Jill to knowledge that her sister's gone missing too, and this time the disappearance leaves no trace. Automatically, Jill sets out desperate (that doesn't translate through her facial expressions) for answers that will hopefully lead her to her sister. But what she have found is her ghost from her past.

For starters, I think it would be harsh to say that 'it would be unfair to rate this movie, because nothing is really here' however rating the movie sugarcoated-ly would make myself a hypocrite. I don't know. I'm weird at times.

Seyfried as usual brings her 'magic' in her purse. But in this movie, she seemed to not check her purse for any, at all. Her performance is a complete hollow and though there are minute efforts by her that are relatively commendable, her efforts and proven skills combined weren't enough to salvage the film from complete sluggishness.

Let's not be too harsh on her. The material slides down on a hillside not just because of her. We can blame the material itself. To be honest, it knelt as if a dying protagonist in a psycho slasher film. It looks like a fish out of water. And more literally, it looks like a TV show rather than a movie. That is where we inject Seyfried's flaws. Her fear and desperation didn't rise to her skin in this tired thriller.

I can't afford to be too mean, so let's just pull it out like this: It's the complete opposite of Twilight. It is not good, but you hope it was. There was no emotional affection and intensity--there simply is nothing. Everything is 'Gone' here. And with that, I think 'Gone' lives up to its title. It vanishes like dust in the wind.