A.C.’s Review: The latest Ben Affleck vehicle is also the most recent offering from one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed directors David Fincher. It details the sudden disappearance of Nick Dunne’s wife Amy played by Die Another Day’s Bond Girl Rosamund Pike, Amy whose life was the basis for a series of children’s books by her parents therefore when she goes missing the case draws national attention with the usual media circus descending on the Dunne’s small Missouri town. Dunne finds himself pilloried by a Nancy Grace clone on the cable channels and pursued by a pair of police detectives. His only allies are his twin sister and a high priced attorney played by Tyler Perry.
If
Alfred Hitchcock were alive today
this is the kind of movie he would have made. It’s filled with twists and turns
that I would not wish to spoil in a review. The movie clocks in at two and a
half hours, maybe more but I don’t really see much that could be trimmed out of
it. All the screen time is used accordingly.
I
will say the ending literally brought howls of protest from the audience when
after its lengthy running time ended abruptly and not in a way that pleased the
theater goers who sat through it. It’s been a long time since I heard anyone
shout at the screen but it happened here. I have to admit I would have
preferred a better ending myself.
Fincher is an interesting director
for me that I have never seen his appeal and that is because the saying is true
about you only get one chance at a first impression. Fincher’s first movie was Alien
3 which I was greatly anticipating for so long and when it finally came out
the results were disastrous. I hated that movie. Hated it! So I never bought
into the Fincher hype in all the
years since. He’s made movies people have raved about like Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The
Social Network but he has also made Zodiac
another very bad movie. I will say Gone
Girl is one of his better efforts.
Best Scene: I can’t reveal but
it’s when the Big Twist is revealed and we see exactly how it went down.
A.C.’s Rating: Reluctant full price because the ending nearly
demotes it to Matinee.
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