A gone story and a promising direction

Rating: 9/10 (1 September 2016)

Gone Baby Gone is the first direction of Ben Affleck, and he did a great job. Although I don't like his directing style because of his unique directing trademarks, which also appears in his other works, The Town and Argo, but I think his a better director than actor.
Let's start with the many good things. The movie is overall great, mostly because of the key moral question in the ending. The cinematography and the two male supporting actors, Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris are also great. On the other hand, the main characters, played by Casey Affleck (Ben Affleck's brother) and Michelle Monaghan are a bit underdeveloped, and their performances are quite weak. It was a bad, but a totally understandable choice from Ben Affleck to hire his brother for this quite complicated role. The main problem with this film is it's plot. The story has huge plot-holes and most of the details and procedures of the investigation are unbelievable.
The main question is that Casey Affleck's character was right or not, when chose to call the cops to Morgan Freeman. I think his decision was fair and loyal, but a bit foul, because it's true, that the little girl's life would have been so better to have Morgan Freeman and his wife character as her parents. Maybe she wouldn't even know true truth.
This film is well-made and definitely worth a watch and thinking about it's main question. But I also recommend an other film in this theme, which is I think better than this. That's Dennis Villenueve's Prisoners (2013).
8/10