Gone

If you've seen Dead Calm you've already seen Gone. It's another one of those "your new best friend's a mentalist" thrillers that also includes The Hitcher, Pacific Heights and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. This one has Brit couple Alex and Sophie in the Outback with American psycho Taylor (Wolf Creek's Scott Mechlowicz) who, having a photo of Alex with another woman, holds the sap's genitals in one hand and aims to get Sophie's in his other. Its setting is supposedly meant to create the same isolation Dead Calm got from being at sea, but it just shows up how little there is to the film beyond formula. Jumping through hoops to progress the plot, the couple perform one idiotic error after another to the point where you start respecting the crazy one for just being criminally insane and not criminally stupid. Should be renamed Some Nutters Do 'Ave 'Em. [Alec McLeod]