Gone Baby Gone

Rating: 7/10 (6 March 2008)

Gone Baby Gone I like Casey Affleck and his acting. Knowing Ben Affleck has directed this movie, made me more interested to see it. Reading good reviews and knowing about the story I ventured out to see it.
This is a story of a private detective Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) who gets an assignment to track a missing child. Circumstances lead him to the family of the missing child and then the town police chief Captain Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman) and detective Remy Bressant (Ed Harris). Here he unravels some disturbing truths about drug abuse in family, kidnapping rackets and an underlying mystery. I will not disclose the mystery to dilute your interest in the movie. However, this leaves Patrick in a professional, ethical emotional and moral dilemma. How he overcomes that at the end of the movie.
Casey Affleck has his own style of acting and he has done a good job at it. Same thing is with Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris who have given competent performances. The direction is apt by Ben Affleck. He has done a good job on his directorial debut.
The downtown and neighborhood is captured beautifully. Some sequences are also technically of high directional value  especially worth remembering are the ones when the detectives barge into the suspected child kidnappers and silent moments Casey has with his girl friend.
Overall a good movie.
(Stars 6.5 out of 10)