Gone Girl Review

When a particular director enters a high status among your favourite filmmakers each of their films comes with a level of expectation, Fincher is in my top 3 favourite filmmakers, Se7en is one of my top 10 films of all time, and Gone Girl happens to be one of my favourite films of the year. Based on the book by Gillian Flynn Gone Girl is all about perspectives, relationships and the ridiculousness of the modern popular media. The film needs 2 strong lead performances and it has them in Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, Affleck perfectly embodies that smug punchable character but always manages to make him seem somehow likeable, a task made somewhat easier by the performance of Pike as the abhorrent Amy , she may not be overly convincing in the earlier parts of the films but after the midpoint she excels. Gone Girl is funny as well, pitch black in its humour but you wouldn’t expect anything less from Fincher, and its brought to life by an excellent supporting cast, Tyler Perry as the patron saint of wife killers Tanner Bolt, and Carrie Coon as Nicks twin Margo particularly impress. If there’s a flaw with this film it’s the same flaw that exists in the book,  given the nature of the film the ending should ramp up rather than powering down as it does, that is however a small criticism of what is an excellent night out at the cinema.  (Low 5 Stars)