Get Gone

I'll admit, I wasn't ready and waiting to see this movie, mainly because of its star, Amanda Seyfried, she had put out seven movies before this from 2009 to 2012, I felt the world was on Seyfried overload. From Dear John immediately followed by Letters to Juliet and then Red Riding Hood, it didn't seem like we could go a month without another Seyfried movie, and since those looked like sappy predictable love stories, I grouped Gone along with them.

I was wrong, Gone is a great thriller starring Seyfried and a group of actors that you think you might know, but can't really pin point where. Sebastian Stan is in it, he played Bucky Barnes in Captain America and more recently the Mad Hatter on the TV show Once Upon a Time.

Also briefly starring Jennifer Carpenter, from Dexter and Quarantine, and Wes Bentley from Hunger Games and Four Feathers. This thriller is very similar to the movie Kiss the Girls, where someone is taking young women and keeping them captive out in the woods and killing them, or are they. The police think Seyfried made up the whole story and had her committed to a mental institution for a period of time for her own good.

Its a constant guessing game as to whether or not Seyfried is on the right path to find the man who took her, as he's come back and taken her sister this time. She weaves a brilliant web of lies to get more and more information about the possible abductor from everyone she meets in the movie which makes you question, did she lie about everything and is just delusional? Did she jump to conclusions to support her own lie and bizarre tale? Or is there really someone out there still and does he have her sister?

I'm usually pretty good and predicting the end of a movie or seeing what's coming next, but this one had me guessing right up until the end. Gone is on demand this month on Time Warner Cable, check your local listings or rent it from a red box if you really want a movie that's going to keep its promise when it calls itself a thriller.