With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Doesn’t have the heft of Zodiac or the verve of Se7en but Gone Girl is a masterful adaptation and a superior crime-thriller. As for Fincher changing the ending… See for yourself.
Stylish, twisted and daring, Gone Girl is a David Fincher date movie: dark, smart and dangerous. If it doesn’t deliver in its finale, its twist, turns and commitment to moral repugnance will leave you reeling.
Gone Girl, finally, may be no more than a storm in a teacup. But what an elegant, bone-china teacup this is. And what a fearsome force-10 gale we have brewing inside.
Gone Girl is slippery, deceptive and immensely pleasurable.
Up there with Fincher's best. Perhaps his most subtle movie to date, one which (like The Game) will grow in stature as the years roll on.
David Fincher: an excellent choice to direct Gillian Flynn’s whiplashing tale of deceptions. He steers this adaptation with cool, detached technical proficiency and a sense of brutally malicious fun, making Gone Girl as entertainingly gripping as it is smartly disturbing and scathingly satirical.
A satisfying, ironic, and sophisticated thriller. Go see.
The brilliance of Gone Girl cannot be overstated, nor can it really be elucidated without diluting its many, many pleasures.
Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck are today’s Bergman and Boyer in a twisted tale of murder, misogyny and a warped marriage.
Gone Girl is too slippery and evasive to have much of an emotional kick but it’s a superb piece of filmmaking that should satisfy devotees of the original novel as well as anyone else who likes their crime thrillers swathed in irony.
The trick of the film, though, is its ability to leave you questioning who the real monster is.
Gone Girl falters slightly in trying to find a perfect ending but it remains a tense, taut thriller and a bruising journey through the painful unravelling of love and marriage.
Gone Girl will stay with you...rather longer than might be comfortable.
At 149 minutes, the film never drags nor does its mood settle, slipping from classy narcissistic humour to exploitation-inflected thrills in an instant; mercurial, mystifying – and tantalisingly missing.
David Fincher
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