'Gone Girl' Starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike'. Directed by David Fincher.
In the U.S. heartland state of Missouri, a weird story unfolds. Nicholas Dunne (Ben Affleck) comes home and finds his wife (Rosamund Pike) missing.
From then on, the movie moves backwards and forwards creating a suspense-filled flick as it does. In the end Nicholas and Amy are re-united. The film is directed by David Fincher and scripted by Gillian Flynn who also wrote the novel on which the film is based.
Ben Affleck fills the screen in his role as the bewildered hunk of a husband. Yet in the end, the flick doesn't make sense. As one feminist told me years ago," The most dangerous man a woman will meet is her former husband and/or lover." Crime statistics bear this out. Yet 'Gone Girl' doesn't back up this fact at all.
Also in the film, Amy Dunne suddenly reveals her true character, or the film reveals it. In any case the sudden revelation of where this lady's head is really at, comes too suddenly for this observer. Rosamund Pike tries hard to make her role as Amy Dunne look credible. Yet in the end she fails.
"You have a world class vagina," Nicholas tells Amy in public as they plan to get married in New York City. This is the place where these two writers meet and fall in love. At film's end, a psychically-battered Nicholas asks Amy, "What will we do?"
Quite frankly I couldn't give a damn about the answer to that question. 'Gone Girl' has some good moments and a very good supporting cast that includes Tyler Perry as lawyer Tanner Bolt . Yet in the end I turned thumbs down on 'Gone Girl" It deserves 2 1/2 stars and no more.
